how do you manage a shower with a 1 year old around?

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My DD is 13 months, not walking yet but crawling and into everything. My DP works away during the week, leaves sunday evening, back friday evening.

DD just hates to be left at the moment, even for a minute. If I put her in the cot, she screams her head off. I used to put her on the landing with toys (safe area, with stairgate & bedroom/bathroom doors closed), but now she just stands against the bathroom door and sobs if I do that. If have her in the bathroom with me she explores, licks the floor/toilet, traps her fingers in the shower door (tiny gap), etc, so thats not feasible either. She won't nap until about 11/12, so thats no good either. If I take her in the bathroom in the highchair she mithers for a breastfeed, and gets agitated.
My current solution is to put her in the high chair in the bedroom with cbeebies on, bed & bath doors open, and speed shower. However I feel bad parking her in front of the tv (although she loves it! ). I'd welcomeany suggestions anyone has for other things I could try! Many thanks

I used a travel cot as a playpen with a few toys and cbeebies on too. Travel cot maybe safer than high chair if your LO is out of sight.

Doesn't anyone shower with their kids? I do! If DH can't wait around for me to shower then guess what? 3 year old and 5 month old will be taking a shower with me. 5 month old sits in the bumbo while 3 year old draws pictures in the fog.

Can you shower before DC wakes/before you go to bed? Or plonk them in front of Cbeebies for few minutes? Or, if you don't want to do that, use a Bumbo & a toy / crayons / whatever, and bring them in the bathroom with you.

Am I the only one who just lets their LO cry for 3 minutes??
DS is a rubbish sleeper so there's no way I'm deliberately getting up before him to shower. Bringing him into the bathroom would be a nightmare-think toilet licking. He's also crawling but not walking and I put him into his cot with some toys when I get a shower. He sometimes plays, sometimes witters and sometimes cries, either way I get a shower.
In my defense I do shower quite quickly!
I'd just carry on doing what you are- don't feel guilty about a few minutes of telly. I'd do the same but we don't have a tv upstairs.

I either shower while he has his morning nap or top his bath up with hot water and get straight in it after he's gone to bed.

Put the plug in and sit them at the end with some toys.

I shower in the evening, when DH is in charge.

My morning shower takes precisely 3 mins! Enough to wash and rinse body.

If DS (now 20 mth but been doing this for about 6 months) is in a screamy clingy mood in fairness the only time he isn't is when he's asleep then he comes in with me and declares loudly, whilst pointing and laughing "Mom BOOF" trans: "Mum's boobs"

I don't use TV to entertain him whilst I shower, how awful of you!!! I use it to eat my breakfast in peace and have a quick 10 minutes on Facebook.

Oh and if I need to wash my hair or shave then I do that at night. If I want to relax then I run a bath after he's in bed. Like I'm doing now. Yep. I'm typing this nekkid. Big, flabby belly, saggy boobed, nekkid.

You're welcome.

Nothing at all wrong with using the TV to distract for 15 minutes.

DD (15 months) won't be left alone even with the TV on, so we just have baths together. I've not had a shower for ages, and I don't miss them. Snuggling up for a feed and a cuddle and a splash around in the bath is lovely.

I pop them in their baby proof bedroom and block the exit with their toybox. Sometimes they cry if they don't want to be in there, sometimes they play happily, but 5 minutes on their own in a safe environment, even if they don't want to be there, isn't going to kill them. They can peek over the toy box and see straight into the bathroom, so they know where I am and that I've not abandoned them.

I'm very lucky that my 15m boy still is perfectly happy to watch me shower from the comfort of his Baby Bjorn bouncer which stays in the bathroom for that purpose these days. He can't get out of it so just bounces away until I'm done and dressed. (The latter has to be done quickly though. His patience thins once the shower is switched off. )

Get up early or wait until they have a nap.

@ celibacycake

I remember this being a problem with Dd (pfb) which I solved by bringing her in with me. My second born child aged 20 months just roams free around the house. If I ever have a third I daresay it will be taking it's own showers by six months

I have a one year old and very heavily pregnant.

I either have a shower at night (this is the only real comfort) or ripen a bath and close e bathroom door and he leans over from the outside splashing the water - he loves it and I so need a bath at this stage.

I usually had a shower during nap time.

And don't feel bad about using cbeebies. Cbeebies is your friend.

CBeebies or while she naps, even though it's later. It's still once a day whether it's in the morning or not.

Or else just let her cry in her cot with toys for a few minutes. I don't CIO or anything like that but occasionally needs must and she'll get used to it.

I wouldn't feel bad, it's either that or bring her in with you which I used to do. Nice to have a bit of time to yourself tho!

blimey, I've used the TV babysitter for showers many a time!

Could you put the travel cot up in the bathroom and pop her in that?

Surely it's okay to plonk her in front of the television for as long as it takes to have a shower?

A few minutes television will not turn her brain to mush, and surely its preferable for her to watch television than to be crying in distress?

i showered in the evenings for a while until they became old enough to be hooked by the TV

also had a little bag of fascinating and irritating v tech toys that I kept just for in the bathroom, so they had something super-absorbing to play with while I showered. you do get very quick at showering