A current obsession of little to no importance
June 14th, 2009
Grrrr can’t decide on a baby bathtub. Isn’t that pathetic???
I think the problem I run into with these small things is that I didn’t have a baby shower so I have waaaaay too much time to hem and haw about what to buy. Its a little insane when you are talking about a $25 item. Like who cares already! Buy 2 and shut up. (I imagine that is Matthew’s inner dialogue as he is too nice to tell his pregnant wife to hurry up regarding a decision that is so completely life changing, obviously)
We walked into the scary baby superstore a few weeks ago and walked out with this:
That place is so overwhelming and I needed alot so I didn’t want to linger on something so boring. Seemed to make sense – its smooshy and it folds up. Yay.
Then I read some reviews on amazon.WHY? WHYWHYWHYWHY? and someone said you have to let out a bit of air to fold it which sounded a little too high maintenance for me. Plus there is zero support for the baby and I can see this situation leading to 2 parent baths which is a hell no. Honestly. So I started looking around and now I think I want this:
I like that there is some support for them to lay down as newborns and you can put it in the bathtub or on the counter, then when they get bigger they can sit up for a while without worrying about toys and stuff getting all over the bathtub. Its nice that its just all contained in the little tub. Right? RIGHT?? I mean we are talking about THIRTY-TWO DOLLARS. I obviously have to research the shit out of this investment.
Since almost every mom I know reads my blog I thought I’d ask around via a post. So lemme know. Is this bathtub stupid? What do you have? Do you love it/hate it/think baby tubs are stupid in general? I think I’ll just store it upside down in our tub, Is that what people do? It seems the easiest and most out of the way place.
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6 Comments Add your own
1. Jodi | June 14th, 2009 at 7:42 pm
never used the one I got for the first child! used it once for the second child ended up getting a folding bath hammock! http://www.meijer.com/catalog/product.jsp?productId=46301&CAWELAID=317727861
2. Michelle | June 14th, 2009 at 7:42 pm
I wouldn’t worry too much about the tub yet. My little guy is only 2 and a half weeks old and we still haven’t pulled out the bath tub, (which is a whale by the way, so we shall how functional it is). We are still in the sponge bath phase. This means towels, wash clothes, basins, and it is all done on my bed. Also, FYI, when you do the sponge bath, and I only say this because you are having a boy too, if it looks like he is getting a (excuse my language , weird to say because it is my son) boner, duck he is about to pee all over the comforter. Good luck
3. Theresa | June 15th, 2009 at 9:41 am
Honestly, as a fellow apartment-dwelling parent, less is more. That beast will take up half of your bathroom! Something simple, something foldy, you are there to support their floppy little bodies so you don’t need a lot of hardware. But I know these decisions are tough at this point in the game! Plus you can bathe them in the sink for quite a long time, no extra equipment required! Theresa Piercy, Graduate of the Jennifer Hicks school of Uncomplicated Parenting xo
4. Bari | June 15th, 2009 at 10:40 am
Unfortunately its already been decided that we need some sort of tub which is why I was looking for rec’s
Our sink is like 5″ deep and tiny and our kitchen barely has room to stand. I can see us starting at the sink but its not ideal for long term use. (TP – its as skinny as our old kitchen but a little longer)
Long story short: Our tub is coated in a material that makes marks on it with your feet. its weird but we have encountered this before at our place 2 apts ago. I wouldn’t put a baby to soak in it without cleaning and I don’t want to scrub the tub beforehand every day. So a tub of sorts is actually LESS complicated. Plus its being stored in the shower so takes up no room. Even if i had something folded or what Jodi recommended it would be stored in the shower so space isn’t really an issue.
Love the comments though so keep ‘em coming! I should do more polls like this but you would all think I have completely lost my mind. I have lost all ability to make decisions.
5. bridget | June 15th, 2009 at 8:19 pm
You can get a small baby tub, and then when they are a bit older they have these tubs that you can blow up. We had a duck…it quacked…Cathrine loved it. I got it at Buy Buy Baby.
http://www.buybuybaby.com/product.asp?order_num=-1&SKU=13589704&RN=7051&
6. Helen | June 16th, 2009 at 9:27 am
http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2403667
We used that one. At first I was totally anti the whole baby bathtub thing, but once It came time to actually give the child a bath, we were on our way to the evil baby superstore. Personally, I am just not coordinated enough to hold a wet baby who can’t hold their head up
Now that he’s 10 months, he has graduated to baths in the big person tub. I have found its just as impossible to keep him from standing up in the little kid tub as it is in the big one.
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