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Cleanliness is essential to your baby’s health. At first the infant should be washed daily with warm water; and a bath every night, to make sure that their body is clean thoroughly, is highly necessary. In order, however, the water in the morning should be made tepid, while baby bathing in the evening should use water warm enough to give a comfort feeling.
If washed with cold water, however, it must be kept in but a minute; for if it exposed to cold water more than a minute it may effect its body temperature, and prevents that healthy glow on the surface which usually follows the momentary and brief action of cold, and upon which its usefulness depends. With some children, indeed, the effects sometime takes longer, therefore, must be carefully watched.
The skin surface should always be carefully and thoroughly rubbed dry with soft towel, indeed, more than dry, for the skin should be warmed and stimulated by the assiduous gentle friction made use of. After a child experience a day full of activities which warm him/her body, should be washed with warm water, or when necessary, sponged with salt water from head to toe.. If the weather be very cold, the water may be made slightly tepid, but if his constitution will bear it, the water can be made cold throughout the year. It is a matter also of great consequence in bathing children that they should not be terrified by the immersion, we have to make bathing an enjoyable moment for children. If a child is of a delicate constitution, the cold bath during the summer is one of the best tonics that can be employed; and if living on the coast, sea-bathing will be a good alternative which offer the same benefit. The opinion that warm baths generally relax and weaken is misleading; for in this case, you cannot put them in general; in fact, the tepid bath is to this child what the cold bath is to the more robust.
In conclusion: if the bath for some reason cannot be provided, then cold saltwater sponging must be used daily, and all the year round, so long as the proper reaction or glow follows its use; but when this is not the case, and this will generally occur, if the child is delicate and the weather cold, tepid vinegar and water, or tepid salt water, must be substituted.
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