Advice needed - Baby bath getting small & we only have a shower cubicle!

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4.5m old DS will soon outgrow his baby bath & we don't have a big bath - just a shower cubicle with sliding door.

At some point we'll have to shower him but he still seems so small for water to be thundering down on him! Also I'm sad that he won't have a big bath to play in with toys .

Is anyone else in the same boat & what do you do to get around the no bath situation?

How about a big flexible plastic bucket? I have one I got from home base, I use it for laundry but it would fit in the bottom of the shower and you could sit him in it?

Could you look for something similar to the 'old tin bath' that is quite a lot bigger but a similar idea to the baby bath? Not sure if there is anything around, or if this is even helpful - sorry!

Get a tummy tub. They are snug but supposedly fit a 9 month old. Or just find a bigger baby bath on amazon.

My parents only have a shower and on visits my girls have been more than happy to sit in the shower tray with a plug in. Water level is only a few inches but children are small so for them it's still fun. I then rinse their hair with the shower head.
Guess that only works if the shower tray is deep enough though...

I agree with 5mad - if you aren't keen on showering him or want somewhere he can play, get one of those huge flexi tubs - but be careful emptying it

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Like these

We use them for laundry and have some smaller ones for toys, they do them in a range of sizes and co,ours and my little two sit in them, we have used them for my dd to play in with a few inches of water in the bottom on a hot day :)

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should do it!

The tummy tub is lovely BTW but expensive, ditto the stokke baby bath. I would just get a cheap tub that will do the same job.

Ooh cool, that foldable bath is a good idea (though typical Stokke prices!). The flexi tub might be a better option price-wise but probably not going to be handy to store in our teeny bathroom & house!

We knew when we bought the house 2 years ago that the lack of bathtub was one of our compromises (knowing we wanted kids), but now that baby is here it's not as easy to feel good about this!

We have the same problem - but dd still fits into her baby bath at age 2. It's an ikea one, very roomy and also cheap. She can sit in it with legs straight and has about 6 inches growing room left... Hopefully we'll get round to redoing our bathroom before then. We used to use a flexi tub as described, but this only worked til she was about 7 months and started trying to pull to standing in it, as it's all bendy that just didn't work hence buying the ikea bath.

If you don't have a lot of space why don't you use the flexibtub for to store toys in the living room and just tip them
on the floor at bath time.

We just leave the baby bath upside down in the shower, taking it out to shower obv!

We use a garden trug like the one 5madthings linked to when we visit the in laws as they only have a shower and the DCs hate showers.

You can get pretty big ones that fit in the shower cubicle and even our 7 year old can fold himself up and sit cross legged in it for a 'bath', so it would last a while.

We use it as a laundry basket when not visiting the in laws so not bothered about its size when storing it.

My parents use a mini paddling pool. Use a foot pump and deflate when not in use. The pool was about £5 from tesco.

I took LO in the shower when they were six weeks old - he'll be fine at 4.5 months old. I sometimes found it useful to wrap a towel round him in the shower for extra grip.

I have washed my DS in the kitchen sink all his life. He can still squish in at 2.5 years and he is tall.

Easier on the back and saves water. He sits cross legged and plays with bath toys and is rinsed by pouring a bottle of warm water over him.

I had my boys in a shower with a baby bath in the bottom until they were about 3. Then we moved in some water play games and buckets and they loved to play with the shower on.
I had the shower so it only went into half of the baby bath so they could sit without water in their face and turned it off when it was full.

I was going to say like poster upthread, large flexible bucket.

Another suggesting paddling pool. We went camping a lot as kids. Most campsites only have showers so we all piled in the paddling pool. (My sister included who would have been a few months old at the time). Also meant it could be inflated/deflated in minutes and folds away. Argos do a small one for about £5.

we don't have a bath either and ours are just showered. what about one of those bath seats that sucker to the floor. take the shower hose down and keep the water running over them to keep them warm wash and remove. easy.

There's a mamas and papas bath that huge I have one at dms. I will see if I can link to one

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This one

Am surprised I'm only the second person to say kitchen sink! It would be good to get him used to the shower though because once they get older they tend to be suspicious of it and showers are so much quicker than baths.

We've always taken our DCs into the shower with us, from newborn.

Lovely chance to have skin-to-skin, plus you kind of angle the shower head so it hits the back of your neck, and baby still gets wet enough for a good wash. Then you hand them out of the shower to your partner who waits with a lovely fluffy towel to receive! The whole family loves it.

Then when they are big enough to sit up, they can dabble about in the shower tray at your feet while you have your shower and before long they are toddling about with a ducky while you're washing your hair. I used to "lose" DD1 under my bump when I was pg with DD2 .

Now they are 4.5 and 21 months, and they go in the shower cubicle happily together while I sit outside until they are done.

Friends of mine with older children can't get them to go in the shower at all, so the younger you start it the better, I'd say.