Co-bathing...

I have to repost...

I gave cobathing another try last week. Mandred is now over 2 months old, and they change their likes and dislikes so quick when they are this young, so I thoughts "what the hell".

He loved it. He laughed and smiled and coo'ed and kicked and splashed. We were having so much fun that Daddy's came in the bathroom to see what all the noise was about. Last night Daddy had a bath with Manny.

This morning my husband said that he wants to take Manny with him in the tub with him all the time!

Just wanted to thank you ladies for convincing me to try it again!

 

i don't think my mom cobathed with us, but i remember my dad taking my little sis with him in the shower at least once when she was a baby. i know i bathed with my sis who is 9 yrs younger and with my brother when we were little. i still talk to my mom while she's taking a bath... she has no problem with nudity in front of us. i on the other hand am a little weird about her seeing me completely naked unless we're in a dressing room. i don't think my mom or stepdad cobathed with my littlest sis at all either... i remember her playing in a little chair while my mom would take a bath, i think i would do the same too when watching her.

 

We've cobathed occasionally since my son was born. His first bath was actually a shower with me. Of course, we got a nice video of his first "real" bath in the baby tub with which to blackmail him in his teenage years.

Taylor is now almost 2 and we still cobathe occasionally. Usually when I have to go somewhere and his dad's not around to watch him. So I let him get in the shower with me. He loves the feeling of the water splashing on his head.

My mom never cobathed with me. She made my sister and I bathe together occasionally, but she made us wear bathing suits. She was weird about stuff like that. Our bodies are dirty and should be hidden, didn't you know that?

 

oh my, that is different... how did that make you feel Minka???

 

I'm still overcoming her influence and I've been out of the house for five years now. Nothing was ever good enough for her. When it came to choosing sides, she would always choose whoever was opposing her children. When it was opposition amongst her children, she would side with whoever was against me. It was certainly a tough upbringing. I have recently cut her out of my life because she blames everything in my life (including my husband's recent infidelity and our forthcoming divorce) on my being a Wiccan. According to her, I've "allowed Satan into my life" and if I would just "come back to the Lord" all the problems in my life would disappear.

I am doing my best to make sure my son has a positive view of his body and sexuality. He's naked most of the time when we're at home because he hates clothes and it's easier to put him on the potty. I wander around naked fairly often, and if he points to a part of my body and asks me what it is, I answer honestly. He knows the words vulva and penis (despite my mother's insistance on calling a vulva a goosey and a penis a winky).

 

We always co-bathe with Skye. Actually it's more of co-shower, I need to fix the tub upstairs and all we have is a shower downstairs. He likes it though. Everytime he hears the water turn on, he is there, giggling and trying to climb into the shower. It's a miricle I can usually get him undressed before he gets in! Skye loves water, and has been swimming, well not really swimming, but playing and wading though lakes, rivers and creeks with me since he was six months.

 

no, I don't. I tried it, didn't work out so great. I can't have uncovered breasts without being accosted by a boobie monster who wants to nurse. Plus, there's not much room in the bathtub for me and any other people, much less toys and things. My kids hate showers, anyway. And my shower is usually the only time I get to spend completely alone, even moreso when they were tiny babies. Everyone needs some alone time, at least I know I do! My kids quit screaming and hating baths when I stopped using commercial baby shampoo which was apparently irritating their sensitive skin.

yes, as a child I did sometimes share a bath with my mom, but mostly with my little sister. I remember taking a bath with my dad once when I was really little, but it embarrassed him when I asked about his penis so it never happened again. Nudity was no big deal in our house until Mom remarried the butthead from hell when I was ten.

 

i dont remember ever bathing with my mom or my father. I started putting my son in the shower with me when he was about 5 monthes old and could crawl. It made getting ready in the morning so much easier!! He'd crawl around the bottom of the tub while i showered and the water in his eyes never bothered him. No he stands in the shower with me and stands right under the water, but sometimes he sits and plays with his toys.

 

I definitely co-bathed with Leo when he was an infant. I was a first time mom with no one around to help... I was too scared to put him in a tub of water, no matter how small, all by himself. He liked it better too, being close to me, and I felt better knowing I had absolute control over where his little body went. When he got older and could sit up, it was an off and on thing depending on convenience. When we moved in with my family, he would even take baths with my younger sister... We heated our bath water manually, and it was so much easier to throw him in there with someone who already had hot water... Two for the price of one.

I grew up in a household that wasn't at all hung up on nudity... With seven children I don't think it's possible. *haha* I can't remember actually bathing with my mom, but I'm sure my older siblings did. I was number five down the line so there were plenty of older ones to throw me in with. I do remember keeping my mom company, and seeing my dad in the bath a few times when I was little.

Of course kids get curious, but my parents were always very matter of fact about explaining stuff... They didn't make a big deal about it, this is what girls have this is what boys have and their function(feeding babies, going potty, that kind of thing), end of the issue. My mom would even go so far as to compare people parts to animal parts since we lived on a farm... It made it easier to understand for us kids and less mysterious and shameful... Cows aren't embarrassed about their boobies. I try to be the same way with Leo... He'll come in and bug me while I am bathing and point stuff out and I tell him the truth, although with little people words. Leo is quite the parrot, saying all kinds of stuff all the time... I don't want him squaking "vagina" down the grocery aisles.

 

I co-bathed my daughter from the time she was born until she was almost two exclusively. Then after that, on and off till she was about 5. It was a bonding time for us both, and I don't regret it at all.

 

i remember being bathed with my twin brother, but not either of my parents.

i co-bathe. we don't have a tub here, and shakti's afraid of the shower. i can make sure she doesn't get soap in her eyes.

it occurred to me one year at the open showers at starwood that it was just easier to have all of us soaping down & rinsing off at once.

 

i co-bathed with my mom its the natural way to do it

 

I don't remember my parents ever co-bathing with any of us but I know I use to take baths with one of my sisters

I have always co-bathed with my kids... and I let them bath together
my oldest is almost nine and she still climbs in with me sometimes as with my son and next to youngest they both love to take baths together and as for any questions they may have it's a good place to handle those .. in my house nudity is something we can be comfortable with but I constantly remind them that people outside of our family shouldn't see them naked... that it's ok to be curious but not to invade each others privacy... I think that kids are really smart when it comes to different body parts and that one of the reasons lil kids "play doctor" is because they want to know more about boy girl parts.. that's why I have taken great care in explaining the differences and how important respecting each other is too so far it's worked great for us.. besides the inevitable "what's that" questions they don't really seem to notice those parts of each other.. they are deemed unimportant.. just where we go to the bathroom... till they get old enough for the "sex talk" and the "watch out for predator talk" which sadly enough I have had to give the three oldest ones already... it's a sad world sometimes

 

Co bathers here too! Either mama and kids or daddy and kids or kids and kids lol. We also walk around nude. It's just skin.

 

I used to bathe with my mom when I was younger. My husband and i have always bathed with our children...he doesnt bathe with my 2 year old anymore because she is now curious and tryes to toouch and poke and pull lol. But i still bathe witt hem both or them together if i have already bathed.

 

We co-bathe and also co-shower. It makes life so much easier! I have 2 little boys so I often just bring them in the shower with me that way I can get my shower in! Now that the weather is warmer and they are getting so dirty from playing outside everyday I usually get them washed up together at night before bed.

 

I was co Bathed with a parent. My Husband and I did it when Out kids were little.

Very natural. It bothers be that many see nakedness as only sexual.

 

I never co-bathed with a parent, but did take baths with my little sister when we were really young. and ocassionally i'd get thrown in the tub with all my cousins at grandmas house... but I always thought that was strange bc I wasnt used to it... I remember one time I was really embarassed bc I was a little older than all of them, and I had almost hit puberty and was uncomfortable about my breasts etc. so I sat in the corner of the tub covering myself with bubbles and suds, trying to play it off like I was just goofing around. But really i was super embarassed. and of course my grandma thought all of us in the tub was just so cute so she broke out the camera... oh boy was I not happy. I was just a little too old for that kind of thing. On top of the fact that I wasn't used to it anyway...

I wish I had been more comfortable with my body growing up.

Now, I just recently started taking my son in the shower with me. He is only 2 months old and he hates having a bath. but his little infant tub hooks on the end of the big tub, and it has a really comfy little hammock seat for him to sit in. so I just take him in the shower with me and let him lay in his tub (whithout water in it) while I wash my hair etc. and then I pick him up and wash him and play with him. He really loves the water spraying on him. He is so calm the whole time, and we both enjoy it so much. I wouldnt have it any other way.

 

I usually take Nora in the shower with me, because we don't have a tub. I did that from the time she was a couple of weeks old, and she loves it.

 

I take showers. When I take them I like my privacy and I prefer quiet.

When my daughter was an infant she couldn't deal with no seeing me. So I'd set her up in her infant seat where she could see and know mommy was there.

Later, I would put her in the unheated jacuzzi tub and let her swim up to nearly age two she thought we had a pool.

LOL!

I let the kids co bathe until they didn't want to any more. They were about two years apart in age.