Toddler scared of the bath all of a sudden?

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DD2 has suddenly started freaking out when I take her up for a btah. this has gone on for about 4 days or so. She cries and physically shakes- is she scared? this has happened since she has been ill, she is fine now. today i got in with her but she was still shaking and reaching to get out.
what can i do? will it traumatise her if i persist? is she scared or just very tired?

my son went through a stage of this and it was horrible putting him in the bath because he just seemed terrified
i never bathed him for a good 4 or 5 days just washed him down every morning with a basin of hot water and soap and didnt force the issue of trying to get him in the bath
after leaving it for a few days i went in the bath first filled it with loads of bubbles let your daughter come in a just play with the bubbles while shes standing at side of the bath try make it fun i was puttin them on my sons head and stuff (stupid as it sounds but he eventualy wanted in the bath so worked out well)
my son did it 3 or 4 times when he was younger just all of a sudden seemed terrified of the bath not sure why i just think its important u dont try to force them into the bath incase it makes things worse IMO

thanks Lilly. I really hope this is just a phase. we are actually wondering if she is going to freak out when i take her swimming too. I hope not, she loves it normally.

We did very similar to Lilly.

I just stopped bathing him for a while and washing him down at the sink, when he was used to that I ran a "play" bath on a Wednesday with bubbles and lots of toys etc. He wanted to get in but not sit down but I just let him do whatever he wanted with no expectations.

Couple weeks later added a Sunday bath, no bubbles, but toys let him play for a while then quickly fooled him to wash his hair right at the end.

Took a while but he's fine now, actually enjoys his baths again. Although we have stuck with just Wednesday (play bath) and Sunday (proper full scrub bath) baths instead of every night like before.

Oh and my ds still adored the swimming pool during the disliking bath stage.

DD is going through this now... what's helped us is to take her doll in the bath, so her role is to 'give dolly a bath', and then she seems quite happy. Until we wash her hair. Even then, she is 100x better than she was before. She would scream hysterically. It came out of the blue, just like your DD as she had loved it before. Much better now.