Temperature for Baby Baths

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Liz Hood on behalf of Expert Village and I am going to be talking about how to give your baby a bath. One of the first things I want to talk about is about comfortable temperatures for your baby. Now one thing that you are going to have to do is make sure that your bathroom or kitchen or where ever you happen to be giving your baby a bath, itself is not very cold. As far as the water, you will have to test it on yourself on your wrist and on the inside of your elbow just to make sure it's not too hot for a baby's skin. Babies can't regulate their body temperature as well as adults so that is very important and their skin is ultra sensitive to heat. So right now I am testing it on my wrist and it seems to be okay and he is very excited about taking a bath. "