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Essential Baby Bathing Guidelines

The document provides instructions for bathing infants. It outlines the purpose of infant baths which is to maintain hygiene, prevent infections, and stimulate bonding. The procedure describes assessing the infant's temperature and needs before bathing, filling the tub with warm water, gently washing the eyes, face, neck and rest of the body, drying thoroughly, and rewrapping in a clean blanket. Aftercare involves applying powder, keeping the umbilical cord dry, dressing, and preventing chills.

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Essential Baby Bathing Guidelines

The document provides instructions for bathing infants. It outlines the purpose of infant baths which is to maintain hygiene, prevent infections, and stimulate bonding. The procedure describes assessing the infant's temperature and needs before bathing, filling the tub with warm water, gently washing the eyes, face, neck and rest of the body, drying thoroughly, and rewrapping in a clean blanket. Aftercare involves applying powder, keeping the umbilical cord dry, dressing, and preventing chills.

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The hygiene care of the newborn is very
important to prevent various infections.
Babies do not perspire for the first
month nor do they respond with goose
flesh. The newborn’s body temperature
regulating mechanisms are
underdeveloped, so measures to avoid
overheating and chilling are important

Baby bath is a procedure to maintain


hygiene of the baby to prevent
colonization of harmful organisms.
PROCEDURE
Purpose Preliminary assessment
Explain procedure to the mother
• To keep the baby’s skin clean. and encourage her participation
• To refresh the baby. Check the physician’s orders to see
Fill the bath with warm the level of
• To stimulate circulation. the specific precautions to be taken
water should be higher that the
• To increase bonding between mother any.
baby navel
and child. Assess the infant’s need for bathing.
Wash her face and hair before put
• To prevent baby from infection. Check the temperature, respiration
Her in the bath
• To provide opportunity for mother to and color of the skin.
Wash the baby eyes, ears, face and
explore the baby for any abnormality Check whether the child has taken
neck as you would for when giving
the feed in the previous one hour.
her a sponge bath
Check the articles available in the
Contraindications unit.
Wipe the eyes from inner canthus to
outer canthus with cotton swabs dip
Check weight of the baby.
Hyperthermia hand in water and wipe face taking
Equipments care that no water goes in to the
Convulsion
mouth of infant
Bronchopnemonia
Basin Wet hair and apply soap or baby
Congenital heart disease
Baby soap shampoo gently wash the scalp.
Fresh burns
Sponge or clean wash cloth Rinse with and dry hair with towel
Critical illness Use the hand a wash cloth or a
Warm water
Pre mature infants sponge to clean the baby from top
Clean blanket or bath towel
Clean diaper clean clothes to bottom front and back
Wrap the baby in a towel or blanket
Types General instruction Finally dress the baby in clean cloth,
wrap her in a dry warm blanket
1.Sponging Use warm room and warm water
2.Tubbath Bath quickly and gently AFTER CARE
3.Lapbath Dry quickly and gently
Never leave the baby unattended in Apply powder over the skin folds.
4 . O il b a t h
a bath tub or table Keep the cord open and dry.
The infant is given bath after the Dress the baby as early as possible. Wrap
cord falls and umbilicus is well him in the blanket to prevent chills.
healed Hand over the baby to mother for feeding.
Take articles to the utility room. Disinfect
the towels and basin. Clean and dry them

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and replace in their proper places.
Wash hand
Record the procedure in the nurse’s
record with date and time.

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