bathing sick neonates

[katz318]

Is it a common practice to give newly delivered sick babies an initial bath before they are stable?

[cihanber]

no , we only swab them and when they stabilsed then take first bath.

[prmenrs]

I agree--don't bathe until stable.

[sudershan.kumari]

sick babies are not given bath in our nursery till they are stable, Only they are cleanes with swabs or wer sqeezed towel . At times even after morning routine in nursery with swabbing even a stable babies become unstable ,this is more often in morning shift , then even swabbing is with helsd for that baby.

[Mariam]

We dont bathe sick newborns. They are cleaned with gauze and warm water after stabilization. Even the normal newborn bath is postponded for 4-6 hours until their body temperature is stabilized.
The daily bath also is not recommended