What should you do as your baby fears water?
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"I am not sure I like water " |
Your husband and wife go to the sea and take your baby with from desire you, together with baby, have a dip in the sea or hold each other's hands and laugh to jump the waves. But when seeing water, baby holds tight mother's neck or burst into loud wails as is soaked in water by father.
The same at home, it's hard to bath the baby. So what should we do?
The first thing remembered that must not constrain the baby. Forcing to touch water make baby all the more fears water and even be afraid of attitude of adults.
Should pay attention to find out reason make baby fear water. It may be water is cool or waves crash so strong. You should let baby accustom himself/ herself to water slowly by: a natural way is building sand-houses with him/ her at the water edge, let his/ her body contact with the foot of waves while he/ she plays, habituate himself/ herself to water temperature or let baby hold father's neck from behind while father sit opposite to waves.
At home even should pay attention to find out reason if baby is afraid of bathing. There are sometimes adults let soap bubbles made baby's eyes burning or flush his/ her with cool water, aren't they? With baby, any thing is carried out slowly, combine doing with playing, change the "must go to bath" into "toy with water". Therefore baby will more like to bath if there are some of toys in bath-tub as a duck or dog floating swinging.
You should also differentiate a fear of water from baby doesn't want to bath yet because of being busy with playing.
The following are something that adults must mind as bathing the baby: don't let in bath-stub glass things or fragile toys to baby to play. Never let baby sit alone in bath-stub exist water though it is low level. Don't take your eyes off baby when all of you are on the beach. Should line a bottom of bath-stub by a piece of cloth oppose to slipperiness. With the baby, water may be a source of fun but even reason for accident.
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