My first item is a tub stool for moms and dads. This was another fairly cheap item (around $20) that we still use to this day. Its a stool that can sit at two different levels (a lower and a higher level). It is great for when your kid is in the big bath tub. You can sit pretty comfortably (better than kneeling over) on the stool and bathe your little one. When they get to potty training age, they can use the stool to put their feet on when they use the big potty! It is perfect! The other advantage to this stool vs a cuter wooden one is that you can take the top off and store bath supplies or toys inside of it! Its a stool and storage container in one! It really is a great buy and like I said, my daughter is 3 years old now and we still use the stool for bath time and for her to step up to the potty.
Next up is "Timothy the Temperature Turtle"... This isn't really the name of the product but its what my goofy husband has always called him. You simply push a button on top and let it float around in the bath tub. It has a digital thermometer inside of it and will tell you exactly what temperature the water is. This is nice! It takes the guess work out of bath water temperatures. It will alert you if the temperature is too hot or even too cold. I love this little turtle! Its another cheap item that saves you a lot of worry! There are lots of similar products on the market and they all do the trick (for under $15)! Here's Timothy:
IMPORTANT: If you choose not to be as neurotic as I am with a temperature turtle, and you choose to test the bath water the old fashion way, don't test it with your hands!!!! Your hands are less sensitive to extreme temperatures than the rest of your body is, and you may not realize how hot the water is! Always check it with your elbow! Dip your elbow in and if it seams warm but not hot, you are good to go! The old Elbow-Dip test works just fine!
BABY WASH and SOAP:
I've tried a few different baby washes over the years and as long as you find a gentle one that isn't heavily scented, your baby will be just fine and smell "so fresh and so clean!" Johnson & Johnson's Head-to-Toe Baby Wash is a pretty good one (and cheap). You don't really need a separate shampoo unless your baby comes out with a full head of super thick hair. You definitely don't want to get something just because it makes your baby smell like apples or vanilla! The less scented the product is, the less likely it is to irritate that beautifully soft infant skin!
A baby wash that I really loved at the beginning (but have trouble finding it now) is Method Baby: Squeaky Green Hair & Body Wash. The lid is the perfect rinse cup! I still have the lids from previous bottles of this stuff that I rinse her hair with in the tub to this day! The product has a nice natural scent and they use all natural ingredients. I am certainly not an "organic" kind of mom, but this is just a great product, green or not!
THE BEST OF THE BEST and THE PRICIEST OF THE PRICY - At my baby shower for my first daughter, a good friend gave me a gift basket of Mustela Brand products. I had never heard of them at the time, but they are very popular, very expensive, and smell AMAZING!!! On top of this, the products are actually really good and gentle on newborns! The foaming baby shampoo was wonderful. The lotion was fabulous and silky and smelled soooo good! It smells so good that they have created a Mustela perfume spray for moms because they loved the smell so much! After I ran out, I never re-purchased these items because they are very pricy (the lotion is $15, which is a lot for a baby), but there is one product that was worth its weight in gold. It is the Mustela Rinse Free Baby Wash. It is a product you can put on baby with a wash cloth or a cotton ball between baths that keeps your baby fresh and clean. If they have a really horrible "blow out" type of poop in which poop goes everywhere and all they way up their back (IT WILL HAPPEN LADIES), you can use this stuff on your baby to clean them up if you don't have time for a full-on bath session. I used it after each poopy diaper when we were at home! It is sorta like hand-sanitizer! It's baby sanitizer! It is gentle on their skin and smells great! Its like giving them a quick and cleansing sponge bath! I love love love this stuff!
My last thought about baths for today is that you will need tons of baby wash cloths! They are tiny and cute and soft! You will use them for all sorts of things besides bath time! Get a few packs of them! I always kept one or two in the diaper bag! You never know what you might need them for! You don't really need a ton of baby towels, but they are very cute! Your baby will grow out of them very fast, so don't get too crazy with those tiny hooded towls!
Happy Bathing! :)
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