Oh the other thing we found useful is with my problem with my wrist I can't, the way you're shown how to bath a new baby is to put your arm round and hold… I can't remember 'cos my little girl's nearly two now, whether it's your, you're hand, their hand, their arm or their leg the opposite side from you and I can't do that. I can do it but I don't feel safe doing it. And I found, I think a friend was using it, an adjustable reclined seat that suckered onto the bottom of the bath. I think there were several that you could get but the one we got was adjustable so as she grew, it could be adjusted so she was reclined. She loved it 'cos she didn't have to be held.
I didn't actually give her that many baths but that's just because my husband loved, you know, Dad's got to be involved somewhere along the line. But she loved it 'cos she could kick, Dad used it all the time and I felt safe 'cos I could give her a bath because she couldn't go anywhere because it adjusted as she grew. It was fine and that I think we used from, from when we got home from the hospital, so she was, she was a few days old then, until she was nine or ten months. And it was only 'cos she sat reasonably early, so she was she was confident sitting on the bath so, yes that worked really well.
Yeah one thing I have, have found useful is we bought this thing called a hip seat I mean it's not a sort of a product necessarily for someone with arthritis but it it's kind of like a bum bag that goes on your hip, that your child can sit on and then you just put one arm round them, so your back's straight. So it's a way of carrying them when their legs get tired, without hurting yourself and I've, I found that really useful. I mean whether it's whether I find it really useful 'cos I've got arthritis I don't know. I know a few people that have got them 'cos they're not, they're not kind of the world's cheapest piece of equipment, I think they're about £40 or something but we've find very useful. |
