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Yes! We have a nice relaxing bath with lots of smiles and giggles but as soon as it comes to getting dry and dressed he goes into melt down so I try to get it done as quickly as possible! No advice but glad I’m not the only one…🫣
My little one hates getting out the water. She’ll be in there for 45 mins most nights. She hates getting dressed in general these days. I don’t do any sort of screen time with her she’s too young. She loves playing peakaboo so I’ll put her vest or something over her face and let her take it off and it’s usually a decent distraction whilst I get majority done. I always just put everything up over the legs and then sit her up for the arms to go in vest then her top or dress or whatever she’s wearing on.
Yess we had this. It was getting really stressful. He was fine in the bath and then getting more and more distressed once out until feeding him and he fell asleep. Starting bath time earlier really helped. We also realised the more upset he got the more we were feeling anxious about it so it was a bit of a cycle. We had a reset with calming lights and music, and making it fun again with rubber ducks etc and it seems to have helped!
My sons started doing this more recently! Just an absolute meltdown like it’s the end of the world! Won’t calm down unless he has his dummy in and a cuddle midway through!
I put her towel on the radiator to warm up a little while she’s in the bath, I then wrap her up and settle her before start to dress her. She hates being dressed anyway, so I just do it as quickly as possible, I sing, play peek a boo, that helped a little.
Yes my daughter does this, she loves the bath so all fun and smiles until I get her out then it’s a massive melt down until I give her a bottle and then she goes to sleep
@Medina yeah I warm little man's as well! Just seems like they all hate being dressed then!
@Hanna seems like they all absolutely hate clothes! Little baby nudists the lot of them
What we did to stop / reduce this: - feed her a bit of milk right before the bath to stop her being hungry immediately after - keep baths short. 5mins. My baby loves the bath and I think it expenses a lot of energy for her in there. Too long and she is knackered after - put fan heater on in the bedroom whilst she is in the bath to make it really warm in there. - so instead of drying her and dressing her on the bathroom floor, I wrap her in towel and cuddle her dry in the warm bedroom, and dress her on my bed. - make drying and dressing fun - sing, give her a toy etc But it’s the super warm room that’s was the game changer for us
My little girl does the same… I think it’s the change in temperature. Going from a nice warm bath with all the toys and fun to laying in a cooler place while I dress her (she doesn’t stay in the towel for long as she’s so wriggly 🤣). I just try to give her a big cuddle in the towel then get her dressed as quickly as possible!
I can sometimes delay the crying (screaming) if I let her bring a toy from the bath out in her hand when she goes in the towel 🤣 x
Yes same - lush bath and then screaaaaming until milk. Used to hate it when she was little but now we just muddle through it sometimes my partner dressing her while I do a puppet show 😅
My daughter is similar and I just keep reminding her when she is an adult she can decide if she would like to sleep naked but for now it’s pyjama time 🤣🤣 I don’t think she understands me because she still thrashes around. I have found sometimes dressing her on the floor is “easier” because she can move about more.