Rubber ducky, you’re the one…
pamelamyers | April 18, 2010
Finally! Sam took an actual bath sitting in the water. You have no idea how big a deal this really is. Sam has never liked baths, ever since she was a newborn. She would scream and cry for each bath for months, even the littlest sponge baths. I tried everything — is the water too hot, too cold, is the room too cold, is she uncomfortable, etc. Nothing made her happy. Eventually, she stopped crying for baths, but it was obvious that she was not loving it. I tried using a baby bath tub so many times, and every time her butt would hit the inch or two of water she would start crying like I was killing her. So I found this bath sling type chair that I started using. It is a mesh chair that she can lay back in and the water and the suds just go right through. I thought this would never end. I mean, she is almost 7 months old and I still couldn’t put her in the tub. It was getting ridiculous.
Yesterday, I was giving her a bath in the kitchen sink, in her sling chair, like usual. About halfway through her bath, she sat up in her chair (now that she can sit up on her own, she loves doing it). She sat that way for a long time, and was really interested in grabbing the bowl of soapy water I was using, and she kept trying to grab at things to play. I ran the faucet over her back to see how she would react to having a lot of water pouring on her, and she didn’t seem to mind at all.
So, I moved on to phase two of my experiment. I stoppered the sink and started filling it with some water while she was still in her chair. When the sink was ready, I lifted Sam up out of her sling and sat her in the water. She loved it! She started playing with a bottle lid I gave her, and splashing the water. I kept her in there for a while since she was having a good time. I am so glad my little one is finally ready for a big girl bath. I’ll probably keep giving her sink baths for a while until I try to graduate her to our actual tub.
It’s so funny how quickly she went from hating it to loving it. Just last week she was still miserable about her baths. I was just telling Mark’s mom on Friday about our bath issues. And now look at little Sam! Here is a picture of her having some fun.
