In the kitchen sink?

aprilsarahjune

When the girls came home from the NICU, we got an infant-to-toddler tub and bathed them just like the nurses had taught us ... (1) in a football hold, scrub her head,(2) then wash her face, (3) put her in the tub (which was in the kitchen sink), (4) diaper off and full body soak down.  We use the sprayer from the kitchen sink to wet and rinse the girls.

Well, a few weeks ago (right around 4 months old) I decided that the girls were too heavy for this method.  (I am petite.)  I mentioned it to my mother and being her very-eager-to-help self, she bought foam mats for the bathtub so that they could 'graduate' to the bathtub.   Very thoughtful ... but ugh.  Because they can't yet sit up, it is very uncomfortable leaning over the side of the tub.  Also, it still doesn't solve my biggest complaint ... the fact that I have to bathe them one at a time. 

I can't wait until they can sit up so that I can use some sort of bath chair.  In the meantime, I am looking for ideas on how to make our kitchen sink baths simpler.  Your advice is appreciated!

keg

This isn't exactly a kitchen sink solution, but we used this tub on our kitchen counter until our girls were almost a year old.  If there were two sets of hands, we could even put them in the tub together (I didn't like doing it when I was by myself though). 

Haven1

I never bathed them in the sink, since that just seemed gross to me.  (Probably because I don't clean my sink very often.)  Nor did I bathe them together until they were 10 months.

Can you bathe them one at a time in the infant bath set in regular bath?  Whenever DH or I were alone, we'd put one in the jumperoo while we bathed the other.  Oh, and we moved quick!

Haven1

Oh, now that I re-read that, you're not actually putting them IN the sink, right?  My advice is to jumperoo the other one and do it one at a time.

OrangeSmoke

When they were very little, we bathed them using a sling, which went inside either the infant tub or the sink (if you wanted to).

https://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=3312384&CAWELAID=294417532

When they got a little bigger and had better head control, we moved to the whale tub and it was fabulous.  We just did that inside the bigger tub.  According to Amazon, I bought this when the boys were 4 months old...

https://www.amazon.com/Fisher-Price-Precious-Planet-Whale-Tub/dp/B0018Z8CN8/ref=sr_1_11?s=baby-products&ie=UTF8&qid=1312824329&sr=1-11

Now we just have a bathmat and they both get bathed at the same time!  I'm not aware of any products out there that will let you bath two babies at a time without really good head control.

 

2shihtzus

I'm similar to KEG, we used this tub and just put it on our kitchen counter from the time we brought them home until they were probably a year old.

https://www.target.com/Fisher-Price-Whale-of-a-Tub-Infant-Bathtub/dp/B0018Z8CN8/ref=br_1_7?ie=UTF8&id=Fisher-Price%20Whale-of-a-Tub%20Infant%20Bathtub&node=13866681&searchSize=30&searchView=grid3&searchPage=1&sr=1-7&qid=1312824608&rh=&searchBinNameList=target_com_category-bin%2Ctarget_com_character-bin%2Cprice%2Ctarget_com_brand-bin&searchRank=pmrank&frombrowse=1

Like Haven, we just did them one at a time and if we were alone, we put the other baby somewhere safe while we quickly bathed the other one.  I think it's much easier than trying to bathe them in the big tub before they can sit up.