Mav's First Bath!

Well, not his first bath ever, but his first "big boy" bath where we actually got to put him in the water. His umbilcal cord stump finally fell off yesterday, it has been hanging on by one tiny thread for a day or two, and was still bleeding a bit last night so we figured we would wait for today for his bath. I find it so strange that Mav's fell off over two weeks earlier than Tula's did, I remember feeling like we waited forever for hers to come off. And we did, she was almost a month old! With Tula, and in CT, they told us we HAD to use alcohol at every diaper change, bath, or any other time you remembered. I remember being so anal about it, if I had dressed her after a diaper change and forgot to do it, I would undress her again just to rub alcohol on it, I was convinced that it was an absolute neccessity. Well with Maverick, it was a little different. They actually told us in the hospital not to use anything on it and not to touch it or play with it. That studies have been done and there are no benefits to using the alcohol, and it doesn't speed up the process either. Well I guess they were right, a week and a half later it fell off, we didn't play with it once. Funny how it took us that many years to figure out that the alcohol wasn't helping, and to just let Mother nature run her course. Makes so much sense.

Anyways, he seemed to like the real bath a lot more than the sponge bath. He loved having the water poured on him and was very calm the whole time, didn't make a peep. We did it after Tula went to bed so she couldn't bother him at all while he was in there, I think it will be awhile till we do bathtime together with them. Here are some pics of Maverick's first real bath, I posted a few more tonight in the gallery if you are interested!