Baby Bath Safety Tips

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Hi I'm Liz Hood on behalf of Expert Village and I'm talking to you about how to give your baby a bath and in this segment I'm going to go over safety tips to make sure your baby is absolutely safe at all times while you are giving him a bath, he or she. Now one thing that I recently got is this little faucet cover, it inflates, it goes over the faucet and this is where the water comes out. It just kind of keeps that from being able to bump their head on the faucet. There is some kind of sharp metal edges on it and I just wanted to make sure that when he is a older toddler that he won't hit his head against it. Babies you know they can't really reach out that far so this wouldn't really be problem until they are toddler. But you know I figure and this is kind of my philosophy on all child proofing is that if you can pay five dollars for something maybe it is marketing just to get you to buy more stuff. But I personally think if you can buy something for five dollars that it keeps your baby from hitting their head on something or getting stitches and that to me is money very well spent. One thing that I can't stress enough is that you need to never leave them alone in the tub. That is just you know there is no one around it, do not leave them alone in the tub. You can't go answer the phone, answer the door, go get more supplies, anything like that. Even if they are in a little baby tub or whatever. Cause once they start rolling over they can just flip over, flip out of it and there has been cases where babies have drowned in less then three inches of water. So it does not matter how little water you have in there just make absolutely sure that you never leave them alone in the water cause that would be bad. Another thing is that you need to lower your water temperature from your water heater down to a hundred and twenty degrees Celsius. Now I personally have a very old school water heater that just have knobs entitled A, B and C with a being the one over hot and then C is hottest. So I just have my set on A but not everybody has water heaters like I do. So if yours is more water you can actually set it on different degrees so set it at a hundred and twenty degrees Celsius or less. This is so if you just need to pour a little bit more hot water into the bath while the baby is in it just to kind of warm them up you want to keep them more comfortable you can do that without worry of the water being so hot that it might scold. Also when they get a little bit older and they start to getting up there and trying to wash their hands or get their own water they won't actually scold their selves on water that is too hot. Another thing that I like to do is I like to go ahead and fill the bath before he gets in it that way I can make absolutely sure that it is not too hot. Since I have the water heater set correctly I know that it won't scold him if it is too hot but you know I just don't want him to get burned just even a little bit. So it is good to go ahead and set him in the bathtub in the right temperature before you sit your baby in there. So if you aby by these safety tips everyone should have a good time and baby would enjoy it.

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