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so can someone tell me what's so important about this?

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nappyaddict · 27/08/2007 14:48

the other day i stayed at a friend's house with ds and we gave him and her dd a bath together. she went to get all the towels so i ran the bath. now when i run a bath for myself i but the hot in then the cold, and i just automatically do the same for ds. she noticed, freaked out saying you must put the cold in first, let all the water out and started again. so wtf was that all about?!

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Angeliz · 27/08/2007 14:48

Sometimes hot water is very hot and if a child fell in they'd get burned!

BBBee · 27/08/2007 14:49

don't know. I do what you do.

Brangelina · 27/08/2007 14:49

Duh, wasting water? Sounds daft to me...

FLIER · 27/08/2007 14:50

It says you should do that in one of the babycare books,might have been miriam stoppard, or what to expect........
I run hot tap first, too.

BBBee · 27/08/2007 14:50

if you are standin gby a bath runnin git how could a child fall in? Maybe she was worried the water won't mix or something.

Bit OTT though!

tribpot · 27/08/2007 14:50

That's bizarre. I know for safety reasons they suggest you run the cold first and then top up with hot (i.e. if a little one jumps in unexpectedly they will be cold but not potentially hurt by hot water) but to suggest that once it was run there was any distinguishable difference is mad.

maisemor · 27/08/2007 14:51

Ha, ha crazy woman (your friend not you).

I run the hot first. However, I did read that you are meant to run the cold tap first, as it is easier to control the temperature that way.

Waste of hot water in my opinion. She should be ashamed of contributing to the water shortage .

quadrophenia · 27/08/2007 14:51

it is one of those safety things you are told whenn you first have a babay. mainly i guess because a child could try and get in a running bath and if you get into the habit of running cold first then you are avoiding a potential accident.

quadrophenia · 27/08/2007 14:52

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smeeinit · 27/08/2007 14:53

the children wernt in the bath were they?
dont see the problem with it if the kiddies were out of the bath!
strange friend!

nappyaddict · 27/08/2007 15:10

no children were downstairs playing so nowhere near the bath!! i've tried adding hot water to cold before when i've ran the bath without realising there was any hot water. it took forever!!

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Angeliz · 27/08/2007 15:14

I usually just put a small amount of cold in first. Just makes sense to me.

littlelapin · 27/08/2007 15:16

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sweetkitty · 27/08/2007 15:18

Sounds a bit mad to me bit dramatic taking the plug out and starting again. If the kids were nowhere near the bath don't see the problem.

I run both together DDs nowhere near it until bath has been run fully.

tissy · 27/08/2007 15:19

...if you run the hot in first, you tend to get loads more steam, as well.

I run hot and cold together- hot a bit faster than cold, so that the water is about the right temperature for dd to get in.

She usually climbs in, protests that it's "burning hot" (it isn't, honest!), then turns the cold tap on full blast until it's "just right"- i.e. freezing!

deaconblue · 27/08/2007 18:44

It's definitely because of the child scalding themselves - Jordan's son Harvey got in bath and poured the hot tap and got bad burns. Best to run both at the same time when kids are around

deaconblue · 27/08/2007 18:46

having said that I wouldn't have poured the water out and started again, that was weird.

MaryAnnSingleton · 27/08/2007 18:47

yes, that was weird - maybe she was emphasising the point to you, nappy ? I just do hot water then cold btw.

pipsqueeke · 27/08/2007 18:49

yes agree it's to stop the scalding fwiw we do them both together - cold more thou, then test the water (yes I still do that at 18 monhts old!) if it turns out that more hot is needed than cold the cold gets turned off - BUT DS has a habit of holding on to the tap (ours on the bath come from one) so I make sure cold goes thru after so the tap feels cold if that makes sence?

totaleclipse · 27/08/2007 18:50

I always run both taps at the same time, and adjust accordingly.

Dabbles · 27/08/2007 19:05

It suppsed to stop u getting 'hot spots' in the bath as well.

nappyaddict · 28/08/2007 00:19

ok obviously i can see the logic in it if the child is around and old enough to be able to climb in the bath by themselves.

fwiw which is more environmentally friendly? i'd love to throw that back at her just so i can be a eensy bit right if i can

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SofiaAmes · 28/08/2007 05:40

well here in america we have this great invention called warm water...that's usually what I put in my kids' bath...ie run hot and cold at same time so that warm comes out the spout. Then I put the kids in the bath while the tap is still running. It's fun for them and saves time for me.

sandcastles · 28/08/2007 06:47

My sister used to run hot, then cold. Until the day her ds got the older dds step, put it upto the bath & leant over & plunged his arms into scalding hot water. My sister was in the hall getting his towel. It happened that quick. He is scared for life.

mm22bys · 28/08/2007 09:17

The "advice" is to run the cold water first, then add the hot water to, as pps have said, to help prevent burns.

We have mixer taps, so not sure what we are supposed to do with them! I think I just get the temperature I think is OK, and then start filling the bath....

Waste of water though for your friend to empty the bath and start over.

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