Correct Baby Bath Temperature?

Question

For my electronics project?

Have looked online but everything is really conflicting!

Thanks
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Answer 1

There shouldn't be any conflicting information about this. A baby's bath should be at body temperature (37ºC). This is because the baby's thermoregulatory system doesn't get sorted out until halfway through the second year, so anything above or below the baby's body temperature would be uncomfortable and potentially dangerous. If you look at a baby bath thermometer (which is usually a normal thermometer housed in a colourful plastic fishy or something) you will see that the bath temperature is always 37ºC, with anything more than 2ºC either side of this being off the acceptable scale.

Answer 2

I asked my doctor the same question he said that the elbow technique works well but if I was still worried to go out and buy a device designed to test baby bath temps. I went to Target and bought the Munchkin HOT duck. It looks like a rubber ducky and has a blue disc on the underside. You place it in the bathwater for 60 sec and then look at the disc. If it turns white and now says HOT the water is too hot. So you would take it out and add some cool water until the disc stays blue.

Answer 3

As a mother myself, and from many other mothers, I think the best advice is to dress, bathe your baby in a temperature that is okay for you. Obviously if you like your water steaming hot that's different, but just use your common sense.

Answer 4

Old original method is to dip your elbow in the water to check not too hot and warm enough.If the rough skin on your elbow can feel the heat you can bet the gentle baby skin would find it too much. Never used a thermometer.

Answer 5

I think it's 37 degrees. A baby cannot easily regulate its own body temp, so the bath needs to be the same temp as its body.

Answer 6

You can either test the temp. by putting your elbow in the water or you can buy a bath thermometer from boots.

Answer 7

Should be the same as body temp... 37,5°C but anything up to 40°C is fine according to the midwives at the hospital I've been to.

Answer 8

As far as I know the correct temperature for babies bath water is body temperature. This is 98.6 F.

I assume there will be a small band of tolerance here.

Answer 9

Elbow in the water jobbie is the best way to tell if the water is too hot.
Please don't go by the person that said 98.6. You would not want to boil the baby!!!

Answer 10

Just above body temp - around 40oC which is why we stick out elbows into test. It shouldn't feel warm or cold to you, just the same temp as your body.