Bathing baby - how are you doing it?

[leenziepops]

How are you going about bathing baby? What are you getting? Bath tub only? Are you using a stand? Are you using the kitchen sink? Are you using a bath tub in the tub/on a bench top/on a change table? 
Hosing down the baby in the backyard? Please tell me, because for some reason I can't figure out what I'm doing. 

[fuccimama]

Until the umbilical cord stump and circumcision situations heal, I will be using a little basin with warm water and cleaning him that way. Afterwards, he will be getting into the shower with my husband or myself, just like my almost ten month old. If he needs immediate bathing attention he will be in a baby tub in a tub. If that makes since, if not I apologize ahead of time.

[Deleted]

Baby bathtub where he can recline while sitting. Yeah, it can be done without one, in a sink, but wet babies are slippery and I just feel more comfortable having him a baby tub for the first six months or so, until he's big enough to sit up on his own in a bathtub ring in the regular tub.

[nettje]

Apr 6, 2015 23:21:30 GMT -5 @jimbobcooter said:

Baby bathtub where he can recline while sitting. Yeah, it can be done without one, in a sink, but wet babies are slippery and I just feel more comfortable having him a baby tub for the first six months or so, until he's big enough to sit up on his own in a bathtub ring in the regular tub.

This will be what we do. I found a tub for DD that had two different ends of the tub... One catered to little tiny ones and the other side for older babies... It probably wasn't needed but I wanted to be sure I had as many resources as needed. (I'm a natural klutz and wanted to prevent as many slip ups as possible.)

[baileybaileybne]

Thanks for asking this: for some reason it's been a real issue for me too! There are so many options available but they only need a special bath for such a short time. I'm leaning towards buying a baby bath tub and having it up on the laundry bench so it's at waist height and there is room to dry and wrap her afterwards.
Leaning over a full sized bath using one of those little molded chairs seems like too hard work just after having her.

[sugarbean17]

Between my two kids I have tried the plastic baby baths, we had a puj we have tried the sink we have tried pretty much every variation. The thing that worked best for us was a baby hammock in the regular bath tub. It worked so well. It's basically just a mesh hammock that puts baby at an angle and makes it so you only have to keep one hand on them opposed to holding them with both hands so thry dont slip away and not being able to do anything else. Ours folds up in half and takes up very little space. I will attempt to take a picture and post.

[sugarbean17]

Mine is similar to this and it folds in half and stores under the sink.

[Deleted]

We have a baby infant bath tub. I think it's by summer infant brand. We will probably just place it in the bath tub. I found u-tube videos on bathing an infant super helpful so I recommend watching a few high rated versions of those. One great tip I learned was that taking a warm wash cloth and just placing it on their chest the whole time they are being bathed makes then feel more secure. Then I used another extra wash cloth to bath DS.

[leenziepops]

Apr 7, 2015 0:00:06 GMT -5 sugarbean17 said:

Mine is similar to this and it folds in half and stores under the sink.

I've never seen this contraption. My concern is that you will have to use more water because you need the regular bath tub.

fuccimama - I want to shower with my LO but not until he can hold his head up. Just in case I'm too uncoordinated.

[billyhorrible]

Apr 6, 2015 23:32:44 GMT -5 nettje said:

Apr 6, 2015 23:21:30 GMT -5 @jimbobcooter said:

Baby bathtub where he can recline while sitting. Yeah, it can be done without one, in a sink, but wet babies are slippery and I just feel more comfortable having him a baby tub for the first six months or so, until he's big enough to sit up on his own in a bathtub ring in the regular tub.

This will be what we do. I found a tub for DD that had two different ends of the tub... One catered to little tiny ones and the other side for older babies... It probably wasn't needed but I wanted to be sure I had as many resources as needed. (I'm a natural klutz and wanted to prevent as many slip ups as possible.)

We have this one.

I'll shower with the baby, but only with DH in the shower too and I don't know how feasible that is now that we already have a toddler who would want to join in too.  Babies are super slippery, but it's also easier to wash yourself and the baby if someone else can hold them.

[omgtree]

I have the sling from target that was SO much easier!! We bought a baby tub and it was the biggest waste of money ever! She would slide down and it was such a battle to try to bathe her. I love just filling the tub and setting her in the sling, washing and done. The sling declines back or you can have them sit up more. Also I would NOT recommend a baby tub that folds in half, you can't get them fully clean and they mold.

[Widget123]

Wow I can't believe no one responded that they do the sink yet! We did the bathroom sink for a long time with DD and loved it using a puj



Then when DD was old enough to sit, we switched to an inflatable tub in the regular bath tub. Even though she's almost 2 we still use the ducky tub



(Those are stock pics, not pics of my DD.)

[suzysurparis]

Thanks for asking this, I have no idea what we'll do, but I have one of those $5 plastic tubs from ikea that my aunt bought on a crazy shopping whim.

[mrsmonogrammed]

We registered for the 4moms tub that you can use in the sink....I am NOT interested in leaning over the edge of a tub to bathe baby, and our maste bath only has a (full size) shower....no tub side and no faucet other than the shower head. (Definitely on my list of this to renovate!!!

I really like the look of that puj tub that Widget123 mentioned....going to check BRU right now:)

[leenziepops]

Widget123 Does the puj hold enough water? It looks like it can only hold a puddle. Doesn't baby get cold? It's going to be winter here so I'm concerned

[Widget123]

Apr 7, 2015 6:03:38 GMT -5 leenziepops said:

Widget123 Does the puj hold enough water? It looks like it can only hold a puddle. Doesn't baby get cold? It's going to be winter here so I'm concerned

The only holes in the puj are closer to the top so it doesn't drain any water unless it is almost completely full or you take the baby out and dump it.  You aren't going to want to completely submerge a newborn anyway; rather, you are just going to want to do a sponge bath at first and then later soap up with a wash cloth and rinse off.  Assuming you have heat on in your house and are using warm water, baby isn't going to get any more cold than any other tub.  DH and I liked that DD seemed secure in it and that we didn't have to bend over at all.

[Widget123]

Apr 7, 2015 6:19:51 GMT -5 @bubbs119 said:

Great question. The plan is for a baby bath tub (The First Years infant to toddler tub) inside our guest bath tub. We have a large jacuzzi style tub in the master so that won't be feasible. Definitely not using the kitchen sink for reasons @demanda88 mentioned, and two words: garbage disposal.

I agree the kitchen sink sounds like a pain, gross, and potentially dangerous... but the bathroom sink is totally fine.

[erbear]

I registered for the $20 blue tub with a sling in it - summer infant, maybe? I can fit it in my kitchen sink and it seems good for early sponge baths, too.

[Bluedaisy]

Will probably get a baby bath tub...my sinks are really small and I hate the idea of filling a whole tube with an inch of water for a newborn.

[roo54]

We used the typical blue baby tub on our kitchen island with DD1. It made it so much easier being at standing level vs. bending down over a tub. We will do the same with DD2.

[kemdupuis]

Baby tub on the kitchen counter with a sling insert. The sling comes out for use with older babies. It's Fischer Price brand- it was on our BRU registry and I've heard really good things from other new moms

[laurenlou83]

We registered for this one: www.amazon.com/Brica-62010-ComforTemp-Infant-Bather/dp/B00H3X80TU

We will possibly put this on the counter and let the water drain into the kitchen sink to do more of a "sponge bath"/wipe down type bath at the beginning. Actually putting it in the sink kind of grosses me out and I'm not sure it would fit.

Once the umbilical cord stump falls off and leaning over the tub is easier (I imagine I will be sore no matter the type of birth I have!), we will put it in the tub and give him a bath that way.

FTM here, so this may all change, but that's the plan right now

[dmoney]

We registered for this www.4moms.com/infant_tub and then for 2 knee pads to lean over the tub with. Plan on using it in what will be the baby's bathroom. Id like to do the sink because it would be much easier on my back ( two of my lower disks are grinding) but we have a sink that is divided into two so we cant do that. So the bath tub it is!

[megd893]

Apr 7, 2015 0:20:23 GMT -5 leenziepops said:

Apr 7, 2015 0:00:06 GMT -5 sugarbean17 said:

Mine is similar to this and it folds in half and stores under the sink.

I've never seen this contraption. My concern is that you will have to use more water because you need the regular bath tub.

fuccimama - I want to shower with my LO but not until he can hold his head up. Just in case I'm too uncoordinated.

If you want to use less water (and because you can buy anything you can think of...) www.babydam.com  


ETA: we bought a little seat to put in the tub for little man.  figure he can use this for months

[baytosa2013]

We registered for this one link


The plan is to just have it on the counter in the bathroom until she's too big and then we'll switch over to in the tub. We'll see how that goes.

[txngrl31]

Based on friend and Amazon reviews, we decided to go with Fisher Price's Whale Tub:


It comes with an insert or stopper for infants, and the bath grows with the baby. We plan to use it in the bathroom tub because, like others,the sink grosses me out. We registered for the matching kneeler pad for our knees and padded elbow rest to provide comfort.

[tiffbot]

Add us to the baby bathtub with a mesh insert for newborn stage. I can't remember how long we had him in it before we just started using the bathtub, would have been after he was comfortably sitting and stable on his own.

We actually sponge bathed him a lot at the beginning, we got used to doing that in the NICU and felt like we had new parent clumsiness and did that until we were comfortable with him in the baby tub.

[bendherova]

Apr 7, 2015 4:36:38 GMT -5 suzysurparis said:

Thanks for asking this, I have no idea what we'll do, but I have one of those $5 plastic tubs from ikea that my aunt bought on a crazy shopping whim.

this tub is great once baby can sit up (6+mo), but not until then. We have one that was used after DS outgrew the infant reclining one..

[junch817]

We used this one. I don't think it was this much $ though when we bought it. We liked it.
We had to give sponge baths for 6 weeks though because it took that long for her cord stump to fall off. She screamed bloody murder and it was awful. As soon as the stump fell off, she went into the sling in this tub, in the big bath, and she was a different baby. She only got to use the sling for a little bit though because she grew too big for it since she couldn't even use it for the first 6 weeks. Then she layed back on the lounge side for awhile, then sat up in the big open tub.

[tatersalad]

I'm gross. We will use a puj or a sling in our kitchen sink. My toddler still takes baths in there. We had a really deep industrial sink in our kitchen when he was a newborn, so we used that Fisher Price contraption but I'm not messing with it this time around. It was a bitch to drain and clean after blowouts. And we had a lot of blowouts.