2mo crying after bath - ideas?

[LeggyBlondeNE]

We've managed to get baby happy in bath by ignoring the temperature recomendations and having it as warm as our own, and she's now very happy in the bath and it cam bring her out of crying spells.

However, no matter what her mood on entering the bath, we can guarantee she'll be crying within a minute of coming out of it. I'm not convinced it's a temerpature thing as being lifted out itself isn't a problem, it seems to be when she's placed into the towel or down on the mat.

Anyone else had this problem and if so how did you solve it? It's making the bed time feed much harder when she needs so much calming down first!

Sudden change from nice warm bath to relatively cold towel or mat!

Wrap her up tight and cuddle her dry.

I'd say she probably would rather stay in the bath than come out and be dried. But never mind - like all annoying things this will pass!

Both mine have been like this, dd 7 wks now so still does it. Think they just grow out of it...I wouldn't worry,just get dressed as quick as possible and have a nice cuddle

I agree, it will pass. My dd was exactly like this and it wasn't that much later that she became a bit happier at coming out.

She's gone a bit backwards now though and gets upset again when she comes out of the bath, wriggles away and stands holding on to the edge of the bath saying da-da-da-da-da (her only word...), wanting to back in. I'm sure this phase will pass too given time

Oh god, don't give her any baths then. It's bad for their skin anyway.

DS2 was like that for about 6 weeks. He also liked his bath warmer than recommended and I think being placed on something cooler reminded him that boob was due and he was too impatient to wait to get dressed.

I ended up warming his towel on a radiator for a bit; wrapping him up and cuddling for a minute straight after the bath, then putting on nappy and clothes.

If it was a particularly bad screaming session I just bf him as soon as he was out the bath.

In any case, he grew out of it before he was 4 months old.

meh. newborns, bath them - which they like - take them out - they cry.

feed them, cuddle them, get weed on and /or screamed at until they decide to either

1. eat or 2)sleep.

DD 4 months used to do that, has only recently stopped. Do you give her a bottle after her bath? We used to and she cried from getting out the bath right up until she had her bottle, we always reckoned it was because she knew her bottle was coming and wanted it asap and didn't want to wait for being moisturised etc!!

Some useful info thanks. We do feed her after her bath, immediately before putting her down. Might skip straight to feed and dress and put on gro bag after first boob is finished! She gets rather purple-faced hysterical so it would be good to keep things calmer!

Maybe make sure the bathroom and towels are warm so it's not such a shock to the system getting out of the nice warm bath? If your radiators aren't on I wrap my DDs towels around a heated wheatie.

Does she have to have her bath at night. DS was always unhappy after a bath at night, I think it woke him up and made him a bit over excited, so very early on we found it much easier to give him a bath in the morning.

Drying and dressing her right next to the radiator seems to be helping, and delaying the Grobag until after first boob.

Bruffin - evening baths usually help with calming her down during fussy periods even if temporarily, plus her dad loves bathing her so he'd be very reluctant to lose out on it!