Parent Tip: Bubblicious Bathtimes
We recently started bathing Baby Girl in the "Big Girl" bath tub. AKA mommy and daddy's bathtub.
We worked up to it in stages. When she was first born, and for the first several months, we bathed her in her baby bath in the kitchen sink. (I love our baby bath, by the way. Highly recommend it! It's the Sure Comfort Deluxe Newborn-to-Tuddler Tub and we used it extremely succesfully for 9 months, till basically she started outgrowing it). The next couple of months we bathed her in her baby bath in our bathroom, next to the tub. The last few weeks we've been bathing her in her baby bath in our tub. And finally last weekend I made the leap. I bought a no-skid bath mat (a cool blue one with fishies on it) at Target and we've been bathing her in our tub directly.
Well, with this new-found freedom (lots more maneuvering room in the big tub), combined with her ability to pull up on just about anything to get to a standing position, and a recent and sudden distaste for getting her head wet (which makes shampooing especially challenging), keeping her in the bathtub has become somewhat of a challenge. We figured out we have to save the shampooing for the very final stages, but even then it's like she knows when it's coming and more often than not lately she's taken to pulling herself up and demanding to be taken out of the tub not 5 minutes into the bath.
PCC to the rescue. Because that is where I found one of the two things that finally kept her in the bathtub. For a full 30 minutes, no less. Seated, the entire time. And enjoying it all!
This little gem is "California Baby" Calming Aromatherapy Bubble Bath. It contains french lavender, sage, rosewater, and aloevera among other ingredients. All ingredients are certified organic or sustainably harvested. And it smells so divine. It is "No Tears" and Non-toxic, free of nut oils, gluten, soy, oat, or dairy, and formulated especially for "Babies, Kids, and Sensitive Adults".
With Baby Girl's eczema, we are especially careful about any product that touches her skin. I bought some bubbles a few weeks ago - the kind you blow - and a couple landed on her bare skin, and she broke out in those spots within an hour.
So when I came across this in PCC I was hesitant but thought it might be interesting to try. And as a bonus, it also comes with a bubble wand so you can have even more bubble fun! And let me tell you, these are high quality bubbles. Not like the cheap stuff where you get maybe one or two bubbles per breath from the bubble wand. No, this thing showers you with bubbles. Big and little, rainbow-coloured, lavender-smelling bubbles. They came raining down on Baby Girl. And they have staying power. They don't pop right away. So she could try touching them and holding them when they landed on her.
And when I pulled her out of the tub, her skin was soft and smooth and not a breakout to be found, even a couple of hours later. So I know it's good for sensitive skin, because I have yet to meet anyone with more sensitive skin than Baby Girl.
So... highly recommend California Baby's bubbles. Not just for bathing in but for blowing too. And in general, the California Baby web site is worth checking out, just to learn more about their products and ingredients. I'll definitely be trying out more stuff, as it seems their claim that their "Natural, organic and sensitive skin care products" really are "Safe for eczema, allergies and diaper rash". Next on my list to try is their Suncare products, which are non-chemical and tear-free.
The second item that I found was the Sassy Bathtime Kitchen Sink. This thing is coooool. It floats in the tub and the faucet really squirts water! And it comes with all kinds of fun little accessories - a little pan, a "scrub" brush made of nice little soft towely pieces, a cup (but smartly one with holes in the bottom so that she can't drink the water from it, but can have fun watching the water strain out through the holes), a little bottle of "dish detergent" that squirts water, and a "sink" pocket that keeps stuff together. She had a blast with it. And so did I, I don't mind telling you.
Yup, between the bubbles in the tub, and the bubbles I was blowing, and the Sassy Kitchen Sink, we had a pretty good bath time! Of course, it all came abruptly to an end with a shampoo and rinse. Even the cool special no-water-in-the-eyes rinsing pitcher I bought wasn't enough. She just hates the sensation of having water poured over her head, even if it doesn't go on her face and in her eyes.
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