Surely you are many and many who remember that when you were little the shower always happened before dinner and when a certain time had passed after the snack.
The shower and any type of bath in the pool or on the beach, because our parents were horrified by the possibility of suffering a digestion cut. Now this concept is no longer explained like this, as if the digestion is cut, but as hydrocution, but the concern still exists, especially when we talk about the baby. That is why today we answer the question: baby's bath, before or after dinner?
The digestion cut is a misconception
Our parents knew that there were situations in which entering the water could be dangerous, and they thought (because that was explained) that the greatest risk was when the body was digestion. That's why many of us spend hours waiting after the snack to get into the water in what we remember as a boredom, a warmth of care (I talk about summer, of course) and a lot of approaching your mother to ask if she had spent the necessary time.
In Babies and more, why doesn't my baby like bathing?Over time it was learned that the issue was not digestion, but the temperature difference: the dangerous thing was that we entered the water with the body very hot from the heat of the sun, in a relatively abrupt way, the water being at a considerable temperature difference. This could produce a hydrocution, a loss of consciousness due to the change in temperature inside the water is obviously very dangerous.
That is, what our parents thought they were doing well, which is letting us play in the sun, catching more and more heat, was actually a danger because they were allowing our body temperature to rise. Thus, the ideal was that we enter the water slowly to acclimatize and not run, as many did when we were told that we could already. Come on, that many of us are alive because it was not our time.
Digestion, therefore, has nothing to do with hydrocution, although it is known that a very copious meal can increase the risk of hydrocution (as it can increase exercising before bathing, entering the water very quickly, that the temperature difference is high, etc.).
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Actually we have already given the answer, but we say so to make it clear: is indifferent. It doesn't matter if the baby has already had dinner, or if he is about to have dinner. Many people do the bath after dinner because the baby stays so relaxed that he immediately falls asleep, and many do it before dinner because in reality the baby falls asleep with the tit or the last take.
In both cases it is fine because there is no risk to the baby's health in any of the situations. All you have to be careful is that water temperature is adequate, that there is not much difference with the temperature of the baby's body (that is, that it is around 35-37ºC). If it is, for example, at 26 ° C, then we put the baby at risk, if we put it quickly in the water, whether he has dined or not.
