Suddenly hating bath - over tired??

[ellasmum]

Hi..

My dd (9 weeks) has previously loved her bath which I have been giving to her at CLBish time.

However the last 3 days she has screamed the place down when she is anywhere near the bath. My dp thinks it is because she is overtired by I am not sure. I have been giving it to her slightly later than usual due to a later afternoon snooze.

I am going to try giving it to her in the a.m. tomorrow to see if it is the timing or if she really has gone off bathing.

Has this happened to anyone else and is it a phase??

Hi Ellasmum, if you have changed the time of her bath to later, maybe you could try going back to an earlier bath time. How is she sleeping during the day, maybe she is overtired? If she has previously loved her bath, it may well be just a phase. Also I think babies go through a growth spurt at about 9 weeks (?) so it maybe that she is slightly hungrier and frantic for her next feed, does she feed well after the bath? My advice would be to stick with the evening bath if you can, it does seem a nice way to finish the day, all warm and cuddly afterwards and smelling gorgeous! My dd went through a phase of crying really hard when I took her out of the bath, I can't remember how old she was, about 4 months I think, but it was really strange as she had never done it before. A couple of times she cried so hard I thought there was something wrong with her, it turned out to be just a phase, basically she didn't want to come out of the bath and I think she was just testing me! After about two or three days she stopped doing it and her happy bath-time routine was back to normal.

Good luck and let us know how you get on.

Thanks Melly - I have had the same thoughts about something being wrong as the crying was so intense.

She has not been sleeping that well during the day - basically she can't get herself off to sleep (v. frustrating). I am going to revert back to early bathtime and see how we go.