DD loves her baths and showering with me... I love it too But we struggle post-bath... I bundle her up in a towel as soon as she's out of the water, but she still cries... presumably from being chilly/uncomfortable.
So, I'm looking for tips! What's your post bath routine? How do you keep LO happy and warm? IU'm just wondering if I'm missing something
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Our routine consists of drying him off and diapering him as soon as he's out of the bath. We normally wait until it's around his feeding time to bathe him because then I'll wrap him up in one of his real warm cozy blankets and BF him while he warms up because he's usually pretty squirmy and BF seems to comfort him. If it's not his feeding time I'll normally just cuddle him in the blanket for a little bit while he warms up and give him his pacifier.
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Are you sure it is from her being cold/uncomfortable? Our DS also loves bath time. And if you take him out too soon, he'll go into the sad cry. I find that if I wash him and then let him splash around for 5-10 minutes, he is much less likely to cry post-bath. He just needs that little extra time to play and splash. Works wonders. Give it a try next bath time and see if it helps.
To keep him warm after his bath, I actually cuddle him up in his towel, wrap him up in my arms, and give him a bottle. He warms in the towel, gets a happy belly, and then we get him dressed. So far, he hasn't peed in his towel! Fingers-crossed that doesn't change.
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We only bathe her in the bathroom, making sure to run hot water (even better if it's right after one of our showers) ahead of time to make sure the room is warmed up at least a bit. But our big secret?
I have an electric heating pad. Just before we start the bath, we wrap the dry towel around the heating pad and turn it on. Then when we take her out of the bath, we take out the heating pad and wrap her in the still toasty warm (but not too warm!) towel.
The first bath we gave our LO was a disaster, 3 people had already showered and the water started to go flat-out cold by the middle of baby's bath. He cried and cried until we got him out, but LOVED the first half of it
Last night was his 2nd one and he LOVED all of it except the very beginning, since it was too hot for him. That time I got in with him and it was much easier for me. He decided he wanted to nurse while in the tub and so I let him! It helped to let him keep nursing while I got him bundled and took him into the living room to get dressed for bed
so maybe try nursing her while getting her out of the tub to go get dressed (: