In the first days with the baby there are so many upheavals that the parents are constantly overwhelmed, partly with feelings and partly with exhaustion, but completely with love. The first hug, the first breastfeeding, the first bath…

In the case of a mother from Tick ​​Tok, bathing was absent for some time. She explained to her followers why she did not bathe her baby a few weeks after birth.

"We do not actually bathe the first month", says Shakhta in the TickTock video which has collected more than 8,2 million views since its publication. She explains that her older children cleaned and bathed them after birth, but with the last child the story is different.

"Ozzy was not cleaned or bathed at all after he was born," she said. "Everything a baby is born with stays on it until it falls naturally. Varnish is actually very good for their skin, it is very moisturizing, it is almost oily. He had it in the small folds of his neck, he had it in his ears, on his toes, on his toes, that's the best. I know some people may find it disgusting, but when the baby is yours, you experience it as something wonderful. "We will not bathe him for a few more weeks."

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Reactions were divided, with some saying they did the same, while others strongly opposed it

"I swear! The smell is crazy. I was addicted to it. "I did not bathe my babies until they were one month old," one mother replied.

"One month!" wrote another, adding a vomiting emoticon.

The third wrote: "I can not imagine anything worse…"

Wernicke and your newborn

Wernicke Vernix caseosa is a protective substance that coats the skin of your newborn in the womb. After the baby is born, the vernix looks like white cheese and is usually clean.

According to a study published in the journal Scholarship for the Care of Women, Childbearing Families and Newborns, delaying a newborn bath for 24 hours is associated with a reduced incidence of hypothermia and hypoglycaemia in healthy newborns. Several other studies also support this fact, but none of them advise keeping vernix on the baby's skin for a whole month.