Is there any tips to calm my 3 month old after a bath?

She loves the bath, & smiles the whole time, but once I take her out she screams. I put her towel in the dryer for 3-5 minutes to warm it up thinking that will help, it did for a while but she’s back into screaming. I’ve tried doing baby massages but it just seems like it makes it worse. I just hurry to put her sleep wear on & put her in her sleep slack. I just don’t know what to do to have her calm & not scream while getting clothes on. Etc.

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I crank the heat when i give my baby a bath. She hates being cold but lovessss the bath. This has helped prevent meltdowns for sure.

how high to you crank it? I have my AC on 75 during the day, & than after I put her down I put it down to 72 for the night.

I’ll try to do that. Part of me is debating to change her in the bathroom, but I don’t even know about doing that.

Well i usually turn the heat to 75 so if that’s what you have your AC on i would switch on the heat and just crank it up a couple degrees. I feel like that should help!

I have a heated blanket and put it on its lowest setting during the bath and it gets turned off a couple minutes before she goes on it to get changed quickly then cuddles. She is on it for 5 ish minutes

Ours was exactly the same and would scream for ages after being taken out. So we tried bouncing her in and out of the water like lifting her out then bouncing her legs back in as she loves being bounced around and that has worked a wonders! x

My baby girl used to do the same thing! I’d do everything like turn the heater on and try and distract her with toys and even hold her or let her have her pacifier but she would scream. I finally figured out to hold her while wrapped in her towel and then set her down and put a blanket over her body while i’d put her diaper on then when it was time to put her sleepwear on, i’d move the blanket to her legs only. Hope that makes sense.

same here w my 3m baby! i would love to moisturize and massage him after the bath but he’s screams so intensity :( i just hurry and put his sleeper on ugh

we put the air heater on to keep the room extra warm and have a dummy ready for when wrap in towel xx

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