SLIPPERY WHEN WET! First off, I'd like to tell you that new born babies are very very soft! When they get wet, they are very very very slippery! I was terrified I was going to drop Emily when I picked her up out of her little tub for the first time! TERRIFIED! It is funny to think of now, but when you are a new mom, many things will freak you out!
BATH TUB OPTIONS:
I am sure there are tons more bathing options, but I will only speak of what I know.
The "Big Blue Boat" (what Emily now calls her tiny baby bathtub). For our first daughter, we had this little bath tub that
fits perfectly into/over our kitchen sink. There is a picture below… We used
it until she was too big for it. It was cheap, simple, and easy. You can fill it up
with the kitchen sink faucet and there is a little drain plug that will drain
the water into the sink when you are done. This method is easy on your back and
there is no "slippery naked baby in a giant bathtub" situation to panic over.
This tub came with this little padded net like attachment for suspending newborns in
the little tub. It was weird and I never used it. Maybe I didn't do it right, but it seamed like the baby wasn't in the water enough to keep warm and it was kind of like giving the baby a sponge bath instead of being submerged in actual water. We would bathe her in the sink
bath tub and have a nice big soft grown-up towl layed out on the counter next
to the tub with one of her cute little towls on top of it to wrap her up and
dry her off. It was perfect for us and we will be doing it again in October with our new little one. New borns lay on the left side that you can see looks reclined, and when baby is big enough to sit up on their own, they sit on the right side and splash water all over your kitchen floor!
Some people use giant spongy things that can go directly
into the big bath tub that you lay the baby on for a safe bath time in the big bath tub... I keep seeing this giant spongy frog whenever I go to Baby's R Us and it is so darn cute that I am tempted to buy it! How cute is a new born baby laying on a giant froggy sponge!? My main issue with
this concept, aside from hurting your back leaning over the big tub, is that fact that
your baby weighs between 6 and 20 pounds, and you are going to fill up a whole bath tub
for them! It seams like a huge waste of water. You can always use one of these
giant spongy frogs in a sink if you have a really big single sink basin! It
would work really well – unless your baby poops in the tub (Oh yes, it will
happen to you at least once). Spongy textures and baby poop don't sound like a good idea to me!
The final bath item I will discuss tonight is a tub seat for older babys who can sit upright (around 3 months old and up, I think).
Its very safe and cool for babies who are too big for the tiny tub but too
slippery and fragile to be sitting in a big tub all by their lonesome! We never
used it with our daughter but had friends that loved it. This device can even
fit in a large sink if needed. It takes the worry out of bath time and the baby can sit up and play safely! This one has suction cups on the bottom so that it doesn't slip in the tub or sink.
If you buy a baby tub, make sure it is cheap and that it can fit on top of your kitchen sink!
Tomorrow I will talk about bath time products including "Timothy the Temperature Turtle" and the elbow method for checking the bath water temperature! Can't wait!
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