Monday 25 October 2010

Bathing Liam

Our little boy does not seem to like bathing that much!  Or shall I say, he likes the water, he just hates getting out and being towelled dry!  We only started bathing him after he was 10 days old and also not yet everyday.  We started with him in his small bath, but it's quite difficult to hold him and his bottom keeps slipping which seem to scare him.  In the big bath we have a bath chair for him to sit in where he felt more comfortable, but he screamed blue murder when we pick him out of the bath!  Also it's quite hard on our backs bending over like that.  One time I try to bath with him, which went well, except that I had to shower afterwards as he did a big poo in the bath!! :)  Gavin braved the bath with him the next time... of course Liam did nothing in the bath then! 

The evening bath routine just stressed us all out in the end as Liam took ages to calm down afterwards.  I decided to switch to morning bath routines (well, every second morning) where I bath with him, but instead of picking him out of the bath, I, while in the bath, bring him towards me and hold him to my chest while I get out of the bath.  Bit tricky to stand up, but it seems to stress him out much less.  I'll try that for a few weeks and see how it goes.  So far so good!