Is it dangerous to take a bath while pregnant?

Is it dangerous to take a bath while pregnant?

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We do recommend that when people take baths that they keep their bathtubs below a certain temperature and typically that number is a hundred and two. No one generally has a thermometer, so we just tell people to take lukewarm baths, because we know that women are in areas where the temperature is elevated; like Jacuzzis, saunas, and hot tubs. These things that raise body temperature in a female can actually lead to neural tube defects in the baby in the first trimester.