To wash my toddler in the kitchen sink?

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Have done since he was a baby and now he sits cross legged in it and seems happy. He gets washed after each meal, (he eats in his nappy as he is very messy still at 18 mo), after we go out and he gets dirty or sandy, and after swimming and before bed, so he is very clean.

It seems a pointless waste of water to give him the traditional bath each night (we live overseas by the sea and water here is desalinated seawater so expensive and energy inefficient). He gets to play with bath toys and there is a shower attachment so can rinse him and wash his hair etc. He seems quite happy.

AIBU? Dont think so but various acquaintances and family members seem a bit shocked. So thought would ask the MN jury.

YANBU but some people loons worry about hygiene.

I first met them when I innocently revealed I washed delicate knickers and tights in the sink instead of wrecking them in the washing machine.

No, I'd never considered microscopic bits of poo and still don't. I find a bit of a rub round with Vim afterwards is enough to clean the sink.

Where else are you meant to wash your delicates then?

I cannot comprehend why this would be a problem or issue for anybody.

It's often easyer on your back uses much less water, a sink is just a sink no matter what room it's in.

I own one babybath it was a gift 13 years ago I'm pretty sure I have never used it I prefer instead to use the kitchen sink or take babies into the bath with me depending on time of day.

I don't really much care if it's 2012 or 1955 a baby is still a baby a sink is still a sink water is still water.
I do care about silly unnessacery baby related products that are often over priced pieces of tat and targeted at parents as the things they apsolutly need to be a better parent thus playing on very obvious insecurities these will always be there as will parents who are desperatly wanting to get everything perfect so they buy these things that then end up in landfill the only people who win are the companys who push the overpriced tat.

If a babybath works for you then by all means get one use it and be happy but if your perfectly content using a sink then that's fine there is nothing wrong with it as the end result is the same a clean baby it just costs less

In a colour-coded bucket to avoid cross-contamination valium.

Alternatively there's the bathroom sink but that presents the problem of washing your hands and face in a container that previously held a fetid soup of water and microscopic poo particles.

Mine is 3.5 and doesn't fit in the sink anymore unless I fold her accordion style. But she often had a nice bath in the kitchen sink so she could look out the window and I didn't break my back.
It's whatevers easiest, and no child has been traumatised by a kitchen sink.

Limited, sorry I have to ask because I can't tell but are you joking?

No oops. Not naming any names but I'm bit disappointed this thread hasn't brought them out yet. It must be because Monday is decontamination day Washday

how many of us have baby photies of us being washed in the kitchen sink ?

Not just you, Mrsjay, there's whole generations of sink washing baby pics in our family. Starting with my grandmother (who would now be nearly 110 if she was alive) and concluding with dgd (17 months).

It's an essential part of child development is a kitchen sink bath!

limited you see normally your post would make me lugh but I'm not quite sure if you are really that anal

laugh

Greasy old roasting tins? But surely you just clean the sink after. Id hate to think what the baths had in it. Toddler poo, allsorts of construction site crap off dp. can't see the Problem with the sink myself

valium I have a veneer of respectability but deep down I'm a bit grubby. Actually, I'm not sure I'm fooling anyone because there are people who say they can always sniff out mingers no matter how hard we try to hide it.

They are always a bit vague about it though. I think it's the general aura we sluts give off rather than something anyone could put their finger on and in.

Oh good, my first impression of you was correct then a big slattern like me

My veneer is getting thinner the older I get

Do I have the only baby who routinely shits in the bath?

I'd love a kitchen sink pic (I think they're vair cute!) but I find it grim enough emptying the poo-soup out of his baby bath into the toilet after bath times. I think having to sift it out of the sink where I wash my glasses and salad etc would tip me over the edge

No problems with kitchen sink bathing here, actually easier for me as we have a bath sunken into the floor which is a real PITA at times!

I regularly used to be laid down on the kitchen worktop for a hairwash too as a child!!

Happy days!!

Sink washes we had them lots as kids at home and at grannys

snow my second child was a bath shitter as a baby, every damn time, must of been the warm water relaxing his bowels!

What's wrong with washing kids in sinks? Nothing!

I had my 4 year old DS stand in the sink on Saturday after a spectacularly messy painting session in the kitchen. He had paint everywhere and I wasn't risking him walking through the house and upstairs to the bathroom in that state!

Hmmm I wonder if 2.9yo dd2 is small enough to fit in our kitchen sink? She is quite tall, not sure I could fold her up enough. Shame. I have some fab pictures of dd1 in assorted sinks as a baby/toddler - we stayed in a few places that didn't have baths when she was small. dd2 has always just gone in the bath with dd1 though.

Ha ha ha Snowboarder - Yes me too!

My mother is bizarrely keen on this though and is DD is often to be found in the sink when she is in charge

My grandparents had a council flat and there was only an outside loo and no bathroom at all, so all strip washes were done at the kitchen sink. This was early 80's so not that long ago. Can't remember when that became 'illegal' as far as council housing goes, so plenty of people will have had kitchen sink washes and lived to tell the tale.