Drinking bath water 🤢

Her latest obsession is trying to drink the bath water, I’ve had to remove all scooping toys/jugs/watering cans from the bath that she used to play with cause she uses them to scoop water into her mouth to drink but by removing those things she literally leans her head to the water and starts drinking it. It’s making me 🤢🤢🤢 and feels so unsafe that’s she’s putting her face in the water. Is this a phase, how do I stop her from doing it? Am I best leaving the scoop toys in there for her to drink from as this seems safer? Send help, she is absolutely not thirsty fyi, she has a drink before and after the bath 🫠

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Absolutely in the same boat! Scoops it in his hands or sucks the flannel if I take the toys away 🤦‍♀️he gets hiccups after and has been sick a couple of times, hoping he gets bored!

My son has done this for as long as I can remember probably since about 12m old, I took away scooping toys too and he did the same just sucks it out the bath. He doesn’t do it every bath time now though only occasionally… I have no idea why but they’ll definitely grow out of it. He also rubs his hand on his head when I’m shampooing it and then puts it on his mouth and licks it 😭😭😭 They’re just weirdos!! It won’t harm them just have to keep explaining that it’s dirty water and to not do it x

I think this is normal - at least both of mine have gone through this phase 😅

Honestly I just don’t make a big deal out of it. I will gently discourage it - if she is drinking from something I’ll take it off her and show her how to pour from one thing to another, or some other “use” for it, as a distraction technique. But I don’t acknowledge the drinking part haha. As with most things, if they get a reaction from you for doing something (even a negative reaction), they will keep doing it.

From my understanding, whilst it’s not good, it’s also probably not gonna do any harm. Anything in the water you might be worried about is really diluted.

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We transitioned our little boy to a floor bed around 12 months and was amazing at the time for him to have extra space etc. He did amazing at not climbing out through the night etc. He went through 14 then 18 month regression and was abit of a struggle but we just had to lay with him to settle him then sneak out. He got over the regression about 3 weeks ago and the past week or so he’s refused to go to sleep unless you’re in his bed with him having a cuddle which I absolutely do not mind, it’s his only comfort he has never taken to a dummy/comforter or teddy.

Since this has started over the past week he’s been waking 3/4 times in the night and opening his bedroom door (we have a stair gate) and crying shouting mammy and daddy until we go lay in his bed to get him back to sleep.

Any tricks/methods to get him back to being able to self soothe and sleep on his own all whilst being in a floor bed? We did sleep training around 4 months in his cot and did the gentle ferber method, he’s never been left to ‘cry it out’ and wouldn’t be able to cope doing that now.

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