Bath time routine

Those of you who do a bath as part of a peaceful bedtime routine, how do you make it peaceful? We currently only bath her 1-2 times per week, because although she seems to enjoy the bath... Or is at least quiet, as soon as we take her out of the bath and wrap her in a towel she screams bloody murder until she is fully dressed and being fed. The same happens at the swimming pool. We have tried putting the heating on and putting the towel on the radiator but neither seem to help.

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Hairdryer! The combination of white noise and heat seems to help. Our boy would scream the second he left the water, now he squirms out of his towel on the bed and spreads his arms to feel the hairdryer 🤣

Babies just don’t like to be naked and chilly, she will adjust and grow out of it xx

I stopped using baby towels and bought bigger fluffier ones and my boy absolutely loves them 👌 literally £6 in Asda, I also use Johnson's bedtime bath, wash and lotion to do baby massage after his bath, then he has his bottle to fall asleep

@Nikita I want to use lotions and stuff, but not if she is just screaming the whole time 😅 sounds traumatic for both of us!

I read online that baby towels hold onto water and makes them feel colder. As @Nikita said, try using an adult towel?

Galaxy projector really changed the game with getting him out the bath, dressed and changed. Great distraction for him. Not helpful for swimming I know but might help the baths? I also wrap him up on the floor and sing over him and that usually cheers him up too.

Yes, I agree with the bigger towels! Mine loves baths but to start with screamed once you took him out. Now, with the bugger towel, I can wrap him straight up. I also sing the turtle song at bath time, which he loves. He doesn't start crying now unless I take too long to give him his night time boob

We were the same until we tried this wrapping technique - get a big baby towel or an adult size one. Place the corner opposite the hood on your shoulder, pick baby and place against chest, put the hood on baby. I think it helps them feel more secure, and now are bathare 100% love and fun

Yep I agree on towels! Particularly the type as some baby towels are not the soft fluffy ones

My little one is 12 weeks old and she used to do this, the 2 things that seems to work is using a fleece bathrobe, I put this on her as soon as she is out the bath and making sure I am calm and talks to her whilst I change her (even if she’s screaming). We found that because she screamed a few times we were nervous bathing her and that seemed to have made her irritable (we think).

We have a terry cloth type towel and a softer fluffier fleecy type towel (both baby towels) We wrap him in the terry towel straight out of the bath just to get the worst of the water off him then straight into the fluffier towel. We then do a little baby massage with him just uncovering him a bit ata time

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