I just bathe with the baby so I have an excuse to relax in the tub lol. No screaming and I can nurse him through the hair rinsing, which he hates. Not even a whimper.
I loved doing this with DD1, baths were miserable for her before I started getting in with her but with me she'd smile and laugh. I'm waiting until after my 6 week PP appointment (and to stop bleeding, surely it'll stop by then?!) to start doing it with DD2.
Just rinsed n's hair and his neck and leg folds with the peri bottle. Made life so much easier. motownthrowdown was it you who used it? I can't remember.
Yep. That was me. Glad it helped!
did anyone try my "bottoms up" onesie approach? Any success?
I did! And yes, much better! I have also been trying the holding her up for thirty mins after a feed and that has worked great too. Thank you!!!
I just bathe with the baby so I have an excuse to relax in the tub lol. No screaming and I can nurse him through the hair rinsing, which he hates. Not even a whimper.
I loved doing this with DD1, baths were miserable for her before I started getting in with her but with me she'd smile and laugh. I'm waiting until after my 6 week PP appointment (and to stop bleeding, surely it'll stop by then?!) to start doing it with DD2.
G and I take showers. It's so much easier to just get in and hold him against me.
I loved doing this with DD1, baths were miserable for her before I started getting in with her but with me she'd smile and laugh. I'm waiting until after my 6 week PP appointment (and to stop bleeding, surely it'll stop by then?!) to start doing it with DD2.
G and I take showers. It's so much easier to just get in and hold him against me.
I've always been too scared to shower with a baby. I feel like they'd be slippery and I'd drop them.
We have a pretty big standing shower. I put the baby bath in the shower with a warm wet towel folded up inside and set Isaac down in it. I take my shower, watching him. (He LOVES the warm wet air and the loud shower sound, the baby bath catches just a little of the spray), and then at the end of the shower, I bathe him. I started doing it as a way to be able to take a shower at all, but now I really enjoy it. It calms him. And, I pick him up to rinse him off at the end and then we get out and nurse skin to skin, but I can wash my hair and don't have to hold him the entire time.
Post by motownthrowdown on Sept 9, 2015 3:11:39 GMT -5
oopsiedaisies the bottoms up thing is where you put a onesie on the baby starting at the bottom and pull it up toward their head instead of putting it on head first. We did it like that in the nicu to avoid wires and tubes, but Amelia hates things over her face, so i kept doing it that way. It's also easier if they like to fight being changed.
seeca022 this was us last week. Luckily DD2 was only congested for 4 days and it never progressed beyond that. Cold and flu season should be fun this year with a toddler in daycare and a newborn at home...
That's good to know! I'm hoping we are on the downswing since DS1 is now over it. I hate hearing DS2 cough and I want to cry every time I suction his little nose since he cries so hard when I do it.
@missava387, I read in a July thread that someone had started reading Harry Potter to their baby because it's really just about cadence at this point. I've just started to do it during feedings during the day and I have to say it feels a lot better than just being on my pone the whole time! I feel more engaged with her!
I'm going to start doing this with Lord of the Rings (it's long and I have it on my phone). Good idea!
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