Baby bath

My little girl is not keen on baths. We can only bath her once a week because of problems with her skin, how can I get her more used to it so it’s fun for her and can you recommend a different bath, maybe? 🤷‍♀️

The one we have is just a basic baby bath

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Have you tried having a bath with her? Or using the full bath and floating her around on her back so she can enjoy kicking? My little one hated it at first, I wasn't making sure the water was warm enough but now it's always 37 degrees and it's the part of her day that's guaranteed to make her smile.

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We had the same issue and so started showering with her instead (being extra careful of the water temperature and with low pressure - also it was always the two of us because we were so afraid to drop her... although I'm sure it's possible to do on your own!). After a while we started putting her in the bath at the end of the shower and then only in the bath.

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My little girl has always loved bath time BUT hates getting out, a couple of things that have helped, which may help yours to make positive associations with bath time are:

- we put towel on heat pad on low or hot water bottle to warm towel for after
- use sensory lights in bathroom and room dressing in after
- found some music she likes (mine likes movie theme songs by John Williams)
- mine loves water gently poured over her too

- I also have a bath pillow for her to lay on, the one we have is https://amzn.eu/d/08fG8OAj (used to use it in baby bath but she likes to kick so much we just use our main bath now)

Xx

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Ive got a shnuggle bath and stand..

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make water noises like 'ahhh' when washing her hair etc, bath her in the room with 25 degrees so shes not cold when getting out and have a bottle ready once shes in bed air the room out a bit open the door etc but do not open the window in the room, do it at night so they sleep better

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