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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To those of you doing the sponge baths -- do you do it in the baby bathtub inside the regular bathtub, and just wipe them down with a sponge/wash cloth? Are you holding them over the sink with running water? I'm starting to wonder if I should take one of those newborn care classes after all, yikes.[/quote]

We only ended up doing one or two sponge baths because his stump fell off pretty fast (probably because we accidentally gave it a little help falling off by putting a too-big cloth diaper on him when he was like 5 days old - PSA: don't be stupid like us).  Anyway, since we only did a couple I don't know if this is the most efficient system, but we laid out a couple (adult size) towels on the kitchen counter next to the sink and laid him down on those while we did the sponge bath with two washcloths (one soapy, one just wet for rinsing).  If you have a grandmother around to help in the first week, you will get good advice and earn brownie points if you ask her to show you how to do the bath; it ended up my MIL was frigging thrilled when we asked her for help on that.  Otherwise there are probably a thousand youtube videos on it, so don't worry about taking a class.  I watched a youtube video before we did the first tub bath because I was nervous.  [/quote]

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