On Shabbos a katan (child) gets the din of "choleh she'ein bo sacana" (a sick person who is not in risk of losing their life) in regards to their "needs" (see OC 276 and 328). And for a "choleh she'ein bo sacana" one is allowed to ask a non-Jew to do even a malacha d'oraisa (work that is forbidden by the Torah).
However we find in Hilchos Yom Tov OC 511 paragraph 2 that one may not ask a non-Jew to heat up water for them on Yom Tov for the purpose of giving a katan a bath (rechitza). How do we understand this in light of the fact that the we know the needs of a katan give them a status of a "choleh she'ein bo sacana" that we would then be allowed to ask a non-Jew to do a melacha d'oraisa?
Is this a contradiction? Is Yom Tov different? Is this case of "rechitza" on Yom Tov different? Why?
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