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How to bath 9 month old

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PlumSquid · 26/01/2025 19:55

I'm really struggling with bathing my 9 month old daughter. My partner and I both are present bathing her and at the moment she just sits in the bottom of a bath on a non slip mat. In tonight's bath she hit her head (sounded quite hard, but she seems fine so far), cried for a bit and had a cuddle then popped her back in to let her play so she doesn't have a bad experience. But in doing this she slipped again and had another small bump!

I got very upset and left the room to get her duck to cheer her up and on returning my partner tried to shut me out the room because I "slammed" a door. We live in an old house some doors just don't shut without some force. Which made me angry and upset because I just wanted to do something nice for her but ended up shouting and among her cry with fear. I completely regret this but in the moment after being scared of her hitting her head twice and the normal stress of bathtime I couldn't control my emotions.

Does anyone have any tips on how to make bathtime easier for everyone as I don't want this to happen again but she's so determined to keep standing in the bath it's impossible to keep a hold of her and keep her safe!

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Notthebeard · 27/01/2025 09:01

Just have a bath with them. So much easier and you get clean too!

pickd · 27/01/2025 09:03

We had the Munchkin inflatable duck bath at that age which was fun for our child and no risk of bashing their head. Very fun and best thing ever. So much easier to wash them in than the standard bath seats too!

www.munchkin.co.uk/products/white-hot-inflatable-safety-duck-bath

MaltipooMama · 27/01/2025 09:10

We've always used this one for bath time for our little one, it converts into three modes and ensured that there was no slipping when he was tiny. Now he's old enough he just sits in the tub part. https://www.mamasandpapas.com/products/moby-3-stage-bathtub-grey-615646800?gadsource=1&source=aw&utmmsource=awin&utmmedium=affiliate&utmmcampaign=Genie+Shopping+CSS&sv1=affiliate&svcampaignnid=259955&awc=652617379688000ec2ddeb0060fbf260611a0a7112b4f51

Could you also maybe bring bathtime forward a bit and then do milk/story after so she's not too tired when she's getting out and getting dried? We did bathtime at 6.15 then out, dried, creams, changed into sleepsuit before milk at 6.35, story at 6.50 and then in bed by 7pm. Our little one is 14 months old now but we've done this since he was about 6 weeks!

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Seeline · 27/01/2025 09:21

A bath seat that suctioned to the floor of the bath was brilliant for us.
Was also really useful when no. 2 came along - it meant I could bath the toddler and the baby together on my own once the baby had outgrown the baby bath stage.

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