how do you bath a 5 1/2 month old who cant sit unaided?

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has grown out of his baby bath and bath insert

bought bath seat with curved back but it presses against his special parts

how do you bath a baby that can nearly sit?

help!

really low tonight as bought a bath seat

and it all went wrong!

we had one similar to that 2nd link for DS1 and 2 - we solved the goolie crusher problem by careful placement of a large sponge/flannel in the appropriate place providing "padding" for them

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oh and I don't think ANY of you would want to bath your DC in my kitchen sink - it's horrible - one of those ghastly plastic ones that had seen better days before we bought the house , and most of you wouldn't fit your DC in my bathroom sink.

oh yes bone idle

i was on there already surely, with my army of "life assistants"

but i am also a regular customer of a physio for back problems, so cannot do the hold-baby-over-bath thing. i hope you feel awful now

oh how exciting cod

link pls?

she hates me as i called her an inverted snob once

she thinks i'm a middle class southerner

when in fact i'm rough as a badgers arse and from barnsley

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Just have a shallow bath and let lo lie on their stomach splashing around. If you don't like that idea, maybe put the baby bath in the bath so your lo can sit upright by holding on but no mess as the bath contains all the splashing they're bound to do and it's easy to empty.

We used to put DS4 in the GC and then surround him with sponges, flannels and anything else that was handy. Once he was nicely wedged we could just about trickle a bit of baby wash over him and a splash of water.

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oh what a shame cod - perhaps that's because I'm not shallow enough to "hide" topics - as there's usual interesting things on most of the then........

I used this one until ds could sit up alone. Worked great.

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cod - if you're stil there - what's your blog address?

Probably been suggested already but get in with him or use the kitchen sink. Mine loved the kitchen sink - as did my dodgy back!

Cod's blog hat. How sad am I lol?

cheers - wanted to show it to dh. I'm sad too...

Does he love the bath so much he'd really miss it? - because I used to wash DS sitting on a towel on my lap from about 7 months (in my case it was because he suddenly took against the bath & had the screaming heebie-jeebies every time I tried to put him in)

Or put a towel-lined plastic washing basket in the bath & put him in that.