To be totally inept at running a bath?

[Kayano]

How did I get to 26 and be so hopeless?

It's always either scalding or merely lukewarm even if I am constantly monitoring it. My body does not gage temperatures correctly! Elbows, hands etc all feels fine and when I get in the bath it's nothing but disappointment!

And bubblebath?! Wtf? I either get 3 bubbles max or I literally cannot see the water for a mountain of bubbles.

How can I be so totally stupid with this?! Now I'm totally panicked that when this baby arrives it will be bathing in either ice or an inferno and I won't even realise until I end up with serious problems!

Argh frustrated and cold

My procedure is thus:

? Run hot tap. Add splosh of bubble bath.
? Fart about until water level almost reaches bath edge
? Run cold tap on slow for approx 26 seconds
? Insert lower leg. If leg skin does not turn a maroon colour, add more hot.

Not great for baby bathing though, I concede

My procedure is much the same as GreenIceandHam.

I can't have it too scalding or it makes me feel like I'll pass out when I get out. DH has found me lying on the bathroom floor with my face pressed against the cold tiles (not drunk I must add!) before.

You can get little bath thermometers that show you the right temp for a baby if you're really worried.

I have actually let the water out...
While sitting my big fat pregnant self in said bath and am running the hot tap all around me.

Lol.
desperate

YANBU

I rely on a baby bath thermometer, as there is no part of my anatomy I can trust to guage temperature correctly.

Even with 2 years experience of running baths for DD (I hate baths for myself), I use the thermometer every time.

remembers to buy bath thermometer

Seriously did not I ow those existed thanks!!!

I have failed and am now dizzy as hell and need to get out.

I give up!

start warm then add hotter water (like when you boil a lobster )

get in a warm bath then add hot water is the key

I utterly fail at running baths now I'm pregnant and can't have them scalding hot.

What's worse, though, was last night's discovery that at 34 weeks with a big baby, I can no longer get myself out of the bath unaided and have to be hauled out by DH.

i am glad this seems to be a common problem though as my ds(18) has trouble running a bath