Bathing a baby is relatively easy. The only thing you should keep in mind is the temperature of the water, that you have it well taken so that it does not slip and get a little wet throughout the body to remove skin debris (you know that babies are peeled at birth), creams of secretions and urine or feces.
This is the theory and the theory is missing something that is not usually said but that many parents (especially first-timers) just discovered a good day: in the folds, and above all in the neck, it fits an entire ecosystem.
Well, okay, I may be exaggerating and more now that we are in winter and babies do not spend so much heat. But yesterday I saw a baby in the office with a marked line of "crap" in the neck and I remembered the day I discovered, last summer, a similar line in Guim's neck.
From that moment, feeling bad about how careless it had been days ago at the time of the bath (part of the fault I think was his older brothers, who did not keep so much stuff in the area), I decided to dedicate every day, during the bathroom, a few seconds to throw back his head to give a slight review to the inhabitants of "neck."
In the process I observed that it was not too funny to look up, so to great evils, great remedies, I put some colorful suction cup toys on the wall, behind his back, so that when he looked up he would even go backwards. So I managed to have a few seconds of calm every day to remove dirt from that part of the neck that I think I only saw the light at the time of the bath and after drying.
Since then I usually comment on the pediatric consultation and, honestly, There are several dirty necks I've seen To the horror of their parents.
