Bathing your baby for the first time is a beautiful yet terrifying experience. How hot should the water be? How deep? How hard should you scrub them? Can you use soap? Babies are so ridiculously ...

Be aware that parents may have culturally based needs and desires for skin care products for their newborn. Recommend that the number of products applied on infants should be limited to those that ...

A video making the rounds on social media has captured the moment a woman sought the help of an elderly woman to care for her ...

[33] Because swaddling promotes a calm, quiet state in the newborn, parental stress is also reduced. Most newborns usually cry at some point during their bath as they experience a range of ...

The arrival of a newborn is a whirlwind of joy, tiny toes, and countless decisions—including when to give them their very ...

The experts also stressed that delaying the bath allows for essential bonding time between the newborn and the parents, facilitating skin-to-skin contact that promotes attachment and breastfeeding.

There is debate among scientists over whether frequently bathing babies increases or reduces the risk of eczema. Some ...

Deirdre Ward, Nurse Consultant at the PHA, said data in England shows that the number of children drowning in the bath has increased. Many of these tragic deaths were of children five and under, and a ...