There are so very many options after baby is born. One of the seemingly
less considerable options is to bathe or not to bathe baby in the
moments following birth.
Routinely, hospitals encourage families to have the hospital nursery
staff bathe their baby within 2-4 hours after birth to 'decontaminate
baby' from the messiness of birth.
So, with such a good argument in favor
of bathing, why might you want to wait?
Body Fluids
Vernix
Once you bathe your baby, you strip baby of that lovely, antibacterial, antioxidizing, temperature regulating, moisturizing
natural super-stuff called vernix. This white cheesy coating that many babies are born with is just amazing!
Vernix Caseosa is a marvelous mixture of skin
oil and dead cells that baby shed while in the womb. Yes, even oil and
dead cells are beautiful... when you consider that this helped to
protect him from dehydration and now, while outside the womb, acts as an
antioxidant, temperature-regulator, antibacterial (working against E.
Coli, GBS, and other bacteria), wound super-healing, cleansing, and
moisturizing cold cream.
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