7mo still hates baths

he’s always hated them from the beginning, 7 months in and he’s still not a fan. at least he doesn’t cry the whole time like he used to though, he tolerates them somewhat now because he loves to play with his rubber duckies but today he was sitting in the angel care bath tub flipped over and he reached for a duckie and fell face first and breathed in bath water 😭 i feel absolutely horrible and he was screaming and coughing ugh my heart. my poor baby. pls tell me baths are absolute chaos and not fun for someone else’s baby (and the mom, definitely chaotic and stressful for me too) and does anyone have any tips to make baths more enjoyable? 😫

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Same here girl!! Idk what to do😭

it’s rough!! on my knees on the tile floor, water getting everywhere, baby crying, holding him with one hand so he doesn’t fall over while trying to use my other hand to wash him. also trying to sing to him and grab his bath toys to distract him. ugh it’s pure chaos lol

I literally have tried toys, songs, warmer water, colder water nothing

How do you keep the baby from slipping out of your arms? That’s my only fear with showering with her

i used to do this and it was amazing!! but i need my husbands help so i can pass him to him when we’re done and my husband has been working unpredictable hours so i do bath time all alone most of the time. also used to bathe with him in the bath and it worked but i got lazy but i’ll probably do that again!

To add on to J.S. recommendations for showering with your baby, you can also have a blanket or shirt wrapped around them so they are less slippery. That is what I do if we shower together. We usually take baths together as it's easy for me and gives baby a chance to play in the water. I started doing baths together when baby was a newborn since he did not like being in his bathtub.

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Can anyone shed some light as to why on earth my child doesn’t want to sleep??? My eyeballs are bleeding!!

Never been a good sleeper, but the problems always changing. He’s nearly 9 months old.

Beginning of the month he dropped to 2 naps. We could put him to bed at 7pm and he’d get up for the day at 6am, with multiple wake ups every 2/3 hours.

Now we put him down at 7pm, he can do a good 4/5 hour stretch, but come 1/2am he’s up every hour then getting up for the day at 5am. This then completely messes up the day because I can’t keep him awake long enough to even get to 7pm, let alone later.

He has 2 naps, roughly about 1hr10 each but it changed based on when he wakes and trying to get him to a reasonable bed time.

What could be the reason for this? 6am is fine, but 5am is not 😩😩

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Me and my partner agreed to sleep in 1 day of the weekend.
He doesn't find it fair to look after both kids (my 4 year old isnt his) while i sleep so he looks after the baby while i sleep and my toddlers at his dads and ill look after both the next day.
Straightaway it was pretty unfair as i let him sleep in until he wakes up 10-12
He wakes me up when baby starts fussing because he wants milk (doesnt need it)
I cant pump as i dont supply enough.
So i get woken at 9/9:30 to feed baby then i get him sleep then theres no point sleeping in as my toddlers being dropped off.
I also find it unfair that i get both kids to sleep most night, i get my toddler to sleep everyday hes home (4/5days) and i get my baby to sleep most nights with the exception of maybe twice a month as his dad struggless then about 95% of his thru the day naps.
I have also been unwell for a few months (tumor scare) and am waiting 18 weeks to see a specialist so im obviously petrified for that, so unbelievably tired and alot of aches and pains, specifically these pounding headaches ive been having.
After i had been up til 11:30 getting both kids to sleep lastnight and my partner falling asleep at 10 then him ignoring the baby cries all morning until my toddler woke up im fed up slammed to door and rold him not to expect to sleep in unless he gets the baby to sleep the night b4.
I keep having issues with him not feeling the wet from baby being sick or weeing himself or being able to smell it do about 98% of the time hes given to me i have to clean him up n change him.
Including at night, we agreed my partner would change nappies (1 a night at 5am) while i feed (2,4,5,6:30) but every night when i get him hes pissed through and my partner gets annoyed when i wake him up n moan about it.
Then the morning after hes annoyed at how much washing there is (thats his job) and moans about how often i change myself (baby constantly shits thru and sicks on me) and baby
Honestly im just so tired all the time

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