Subject: The theory sounded like urban legend...
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Posted on: 2008-10-21 14:18:00 UTC

... so I checked some reliable source.

I mean, seriously, boil the sprog or flush it out? Water don't reach up that far and if it did cold water baths would be a problem too.

According to babycentre.co.uk (which looked professional enough to not declare urban legend as fact) hot baths can lower your blood presure. Which can lead to less blood going through the placenta. Which means the sprog gets less oxygen and nutrition and that is bad for sprog's development.

Sprog's boiling temperature is likely the same as mother's internal organs. If she never before ended up with cooked insides, why would sprog get cooked from a hot bath?

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