Mother, Claire Goss, has admit to only bathing her 3-month-old baby once every week, and sometimes every two weeks, and it has sparked an online debate among parents everywhere.
“I aim for once a week. It might not happen. I will confess, it has gone longer than a week,” Goss told ABC News .
Many parents have the tendency of bathing their babies on a regular basis, many every single night as a bedtime routine.
Goss admits that her first child bathed at least once, sometimes twice a day, but now the mother of three, she says she just doesn’t have time.
According to ABC News , Goss is a part-time blogger, and with a full schedule that includes working, having to be home to meet the bus, getting her other son, Peter, to pre-school, and taking care of the home, she says she realizes that she can’t keep up the routine of bathing her 3-month-old son every single night.
“What I realized now after five years of parenting children is, he’s not a dirty kid, he’s a baby,” she said.
Goss says that her kid’s pediatrician is actually on board with her decision to not bathe her kids every day.
According to the Daily Mail , when her pediatrician warned her that her second child’s skin was getting dried out from too many baths, she eased up.
“In my gut I don’t think he needs it,” she said. “He is a happy baby, he is a healthy baby… What I realized now after five years of parenting children is, he’s not a dirty kid, he’s a baby.”
When Goss wrote about it on Babble, a site owned by The Walt Disney Co., she got a lot of opinions both agreeing, and disagreeing with her.
No matter what others opinions are, Goss seems happy with her decision.
So what is Claire Goss’ nightly routine with her 3-month-old son? The Daily Mail says that the little man’s nighttime routine involves a diaper change, and washing his hands and face.
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