Toddler suddenly hates bath time!

[blushingmare]

DD (16mo), having previously loved her baths, has suddenly and inexplicably decided she hates them! She just screams and screams inconsolably until she gets out. I'm sure it must be a common problem, although no idea of the reason. If it's happened to you, did you find anything helped? Or is it a question of just waiting for this particular phase to pass?! Did you persist with bath time or give up?

Couple of thoughts:
Has something happened to trigger this? Water / soap in eyes? slipped and dunked head??

I'd do less baths for a while (due to dry skin mine have never had daily baths)
Would she go in the bath with a grown up there?
From about 18 mths, DS1 came in the shower with me. he adored it. Might be worth a go?

I'd also try to not clean her in the bath - just let her splash, and see what happens.

The other option is to put her in the bath with no water, and let her play, and then add a tiny bit of water after shes having fun (from a washing up bowl, rather than the taps)

Thanks nextphase - I'm going to try playing with her int eh empty bath tomorrow and see how we go. No, it's weird, we really can't put our finger on anything that happened to cause it.

My DD3 was like this, suddenly and inexplicably age 17 months. We stopped baths for a few days but she was a mucky pup...solved it with a "bathtime baby doll"...we bathed the baby in the day in her (pink) babybath then put the doll and the bath in the big bath...couldn't believe it but it solved everything!

when DS2 did the same we solved it with duplo in a similar way but he wanted to wash the tractors!

(and no...I don;t go in for gender stereotyping with toys...but they seemed to do it for themselves )