❔ Can a baby use a sauna? Professor Ilkka Välimäki gave a talk titled A Child in the Sauna at the International Sauna Congress in August 2006. He started with saying that a hundred years ago, 95% of all childbirths in Finland took place at home. Often, the mothers gave birth in the sauna, and a new baby had their first bath there. A survey they carried out in southwestern Finland showed that children are bathed in the sauna from the average age of 4.5 months onwards, with 12% having their first