I have a blog for disabled parents, I and my husband are severely disabled with an 8month old lovely healthy boy. I try to help others with ideas, equipment suggestions etc.
Bathing is tricky but do able. We rang our local council OT department and got them to bring out a bath/shower board which is a bath board, sits across bath with slats in it. Very sturdy. We then purchased the cheapest baby bath from Mothercare which has a little easily operated rubber bath plug in it. We sit the baby bath on top of the bath board, fill it up slowly with water, yeah it is slow so we just give him a weakly bath and a daily bed bath. We use our sink to fill up a bucket or tub with as much water as we can get to bath, it is slow process but worth it for once a week. Then two of us bath our son. My husband sits on the end of the bath and holds baby whilst I scrub.
Alternatively you can buy from Mothercare, Amazon anywhere really, a baby bath seat, depending on how old your child is there are varying ones, when he can sit on his own there are items such as the "Aqua Pod", alternatively if he or she is very young we laid our son in the baby bath on a "foam bath support" sponge. and had micro amount of water around. My blog goes into more ideas on bathing with physical difficulties, take a look.
We all feel we must bathe our child, reality is you must keep them clean, if you struggle or it feels dangerous don't beat yourself up about not being able to pop baby into a bath and just have a good soak down on top of a changing matt with a towel not used for drying on top of the matt and use a sponge and ice cream tub of warm water and get cleaning. Honestly our son is happy, smells clean, is clean and he certainly does not have a bath more than once a week!
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I really wish you well, it is scary but you will be fine, honestly it is one of the happiest times and sure hardest times but worth it.