The third week and washing my daughter....

Washing a baby will be a tough job for every parents, and still it is for both of my wife and me. My daughter, Erin, was such a small baby. She was less than 7 pounds when she was born. Thus, I and my wife were afraid of washing the lovely small creature by the time we came back home. Of course, I have observed once that my nurse washed my baby at the hospital, and it looked easy, but I was totally wrong.

I vividly remember how I washed my daughter for the first time. Before washing her, my wife played a video from Youtude to show me how others do that job. I watched  the video a couple of times, and finally I started putting her into a bathtub. Unlike our expectation, she was calm and even seemed to enjoy that moment (I was too much proud of it). Thus, I was almost able to complete the work without having any trouble.

However, a crazy thing happened to me at the end of the process. That is, she pooped in a bathtub, then she started crying. I was really upset at that moment, but my wife just started laughing at me. In fact, I agreed that moment was funny as you can expect, so I also laughed a lot. From the first bath for my daughter, I always try to be careful with my baby whenever I wash her because nobody knows when she poops to me again. Be careful with your baby in the future!!!

Here are several things from my own experience to be considered for washing an infant:

• Not too hot water, but comfortably warm (between 90~100 F) if you feel water is not hot for you, babies feel the same.
• Hold a baby's neck firmly not to allow a baby to move
• Block a baby's both side ears
• Give a baby something such as  a soft cloth to hold with his/her hands (sometimes, it doesn't work)  
• Don't be upset whatever happens to you, even pooping!!!!