Hummingbird Infant is thrilled to make baby bath time easier. Featured here in Healthy Mama Hacks.
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Why haven't I heard of a bath swaddle? If this type of care is new to you, you're not alone. It wasn't until May of 2017 that a swaddle immersion program started getting press at UCHealth Poudre Valley Hospital Women’s Care Unit in Colorado. They were pioneers in bathing infants in the hospital provided swaddler, as they wanted to take existing knowledge into the clinical environment for the hospital, in an effort to increase their standard of care.
Nurses will tell you that maintaining temperature is important because when baby gets cold she uses up more glycogen to keep warm, which can lead to a newborn becoming hypothermic along with hypoglycemic.
Parents will tell you, that the first baths are scary.