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How To Bathe Your Baby

Before you start your baby’s bath make sure you have all of your supplies ready to go. Keep a phone within reach and have clothes, towels, baby shampoo and rubbing alcohol for newborns with their cords on.

One very important reminder, never leave your baby for any reason.

Keep your room warm and make sure you don’t have a draft. Your water heater should be set to below 120 degrees (this will protect your baby and also save you money)  Test the bath water on the inside of your wrist, it should feel comfortable.

Try and keep the umbilical cord from getting wet. If it does get wet, dab rubbing alcohol on it after the bath.

For more information, please read our full article on Bathing Your Baby.

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Do NOT Conform

Teaching kids not to conform to the media’s image of people can be tough. Instead try and teach kids about acceptance and always point out their strengths. Everyone has good qualities that you can build on. With children seeing about 350 advertising messages daily, the job may be harder than you think. What about how you model acceptance to your kids. Do you sit around with your girlfriends and judge other’s bodies? Do you say things like, “Does this make me look fat?”, I wish I had a smaller waist, longer hair. skinnier hips, etc? You can make a difference in how your child see themselves. Talk about your strengths and what makes you unique…your kids will catch on.

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