If you have or had a baby, you probably noticed the how much fun his first bath was. My baby screamed the whole time that nurse tortured him. For the next few weeks we avoided bath time as much as we could, putting it off for days sometimes (we'll save that for another post).
We would feed baby, he would be fine. We would undress baby, he would fine. We would get his diaper off, he would be fine. We would gently place him in a perfectly warm, cosy bath tub and... total freak out!
Babies spend 9 months in a perfectly warm, cosy little womb. Why is a bath soo scary?
When a cave baby is born, there are no furnaces, space heaters or running water. Being wet from head to toe means only one thing: that cave baby has been left out in the rain for the Saber tooth tigers.
That wet cave baby thinks he has been dropped into a river, been sent out to sea or has been forgotten in a storm. Newborns love being held, if they are getting wet, cave momma isn't holding him.
Of course cave baby is screaming! He thinks something terrible is happening. He is trying to get attention so cave momma will come and save him.
So pick up your cave baby, dry him off, cuddle him, and give him sponge baths... at least until he starts getting really dirty.
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