May 25, 2009 - Have you ever tried to shower with a baby?

I had to shower with one hand this morning, because I was holding DD with the other.

It went like this:

I childproofed, took off her PJ's, changed her diaper, gave her a bottle and a cookie, and got into the shower. She followed me into the bathroom, as she always does.

Now that she's cruising, she pulls up on anything that will hold her weight, including the side of the bathtub. So she was standing there, trying to climb in to the tub, dropping soggy cookie crumbs all over the place, and flinging the (wet!) shower curtain around.

I thought, hey, maybe she would like to sit at the end of the tub and play with some of her bathtub toys while I have a shower. It'll be inconvenient for me to have her sitting there, but at least there won't be water all over the bathroom.

So I took off her diaper, grabbed some toys, and set her up at the end of the tub.

She did NOT think this was a good idea. She howled, and cried, and tried to climb up my legs, and carried on as if it was the end of the world. So I picked her up, and of course she stopped crying and tried to play with the water coming out of the shower.

Problem is, I was in mid-shower, both of us were naked and wet, and there was no good way of getting out to get her back into her diaper. And I didn't want her peeing on the bathroom floor.

I couldn't put her out of the shower, and she wouldn't stay on the floor in the shower, so the only option was for me to hold her with one hand, and do all my shampooing etc with the other.

Have you ever tried to shower while holding a baby? It's not easy, I can tell you. But I did it! Now all I have to do is explain to my boss why I was late for work this morning...