Giving a Toddler a Bath

Unless he was mining coal that day--no rinse necessary! (Except the hair, if it was in the soapy water.

I have NEVER given the toddler a second rinse with fresh water. The only thing I rinse with fresh water is their hair - I get some water out of the tap in a pitcher. They just get out and get toweled off.

We wash and rinse with the same water. How dirty do they honestly get? Besides at the rinse point our little guy is hollering to beat the band so you can absolutely forget draining and refilling the tub. I can't imaging freezing his parts off would do much to improve his frame of mind either.

I never "rinse" my daughter that way. I just pull her out and dry her off. If her hair was really soapy, I might get a bucket and use clean water for that rinse, but not her whole body.

Now, if she was head to toe mud or muck, then I'd pull down the showerhead and rinse her off FIRST.

I don't wash her first thing because little girls shouldn't sit in soap, so she gets scrubbed at the end of her bath.

We fill the tub with water/bubble bath, clean our 34 month old daughter and let her play for abit, get her out with the towel and she's done. I don't think she is ever that dirty to where we need to drain and refill the tub. Like you said it's really a waste of water so I don't see a point either unless they happen to go potty(number 2 which has happened with my daughter, lol) in the tub then yeah we have drained and refilled with clean water:)

Only if she went to the bathroom in the water do I do a rinse with her. She doesn't get that dirty.

I use the hand held shower and rinse them all off. I make sure the soap is all out of the hair and off the skin. It dries and can itch and be very uncomfortable.

It's also a good time to rinse the tub and toys to get rid of soap build up.

Honestly, that just seems silly. I've never heard of a second rinse after a bath. I rinse ly sons hair with fresh water, but that's it. After bath, we get out and dry off. I've never given it a second thought...

Nah, unless they PEED in it, I just rinsed them with the water already in the tub.

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I was always curious to know what others did. i definitely rinse my son with fresh clean water to get soap off and also what if he has peed in the bath? I don't run a bath again , waste of water. I just use a bucket and a little cup/mug and rinse him off.
If I had an option I would get the shower arm but for now I use a bucket.

I see a lot of moms don't rinse off, but the bath water is so soapy ( might not be very dirty) so i am wondering if they pat their kids dry with a towel without taking all the soap off. I

I never thought to do a rinse unless the water is real dirty, like they have been in mud.

I pull the plug on the tub when it's time to rinse out their conditioner, then i wash their bodies and right before taking them out I drop a bucket of water on their heads LOL to "rinse them", oh yeah and i have them go potty before getting in the water or else we know what happens lol

I have one of those shower heads that you can either attach to the wall or hold it; it has the 3 foot cord so you can shower if you need to sit on a chair in the tub. For me, this is the best thing to use when washing kids. First, I rinse him with the shower head, wash his hair, then give him a bath. When he's all done with the bath and the water has drained out of the tub, I take the shower head again to rinse all the bubbles on his body from the bath and re-rinse his head so he doesn't itch from any leftover suds. Works great for me:)

I have honestly never heard of emptying the tub and refilling it to "rinse" a child...baths are a big waste of water to begin with, and that would be two baths!!! :)

I actually wash hair and body immediately, while I'm filling the tub, so I use a cup to get water that's running for all my rinsing (so I'm not dumping soapy water back over) but that's as far as I take it. By the time I shut the water off, the bath is done...and they can sit and play for awhile. I really don't think sitting in "dirty" water is harming them...I have very clean children. :)

I mean, totally different story if it's a disgusting mess I'm washing off...but that's rare.

We just take him out of the dirty water and towel dry. Now - on the rare occasions I take a bath instead of a shower, I use the shower to rinse off - but then I do use bath oil.

I used to drain the tub and then fill up a little cup using sink water. Seemed to get to the right temperature faster.

I put them in the bath and wash their hair and bodys right away while the tub is filling up, so I am rinsing them with clean water that is coming out of the faucet. Sometimes they want right out after they are washed so I don't even have to fill up the tub and sometimes they play afterwards in the tub. The water isn't THAT dirty to where you would actually need to fill up the tub twice, that's a huge waste of water.

Hand held shower!

And for me the issue is not so much the dirt (if he's that dirty he gets sprayed off with the hand held shower FIRST!) It's the soap and shampoo!

I just let DD play in the tub for a while, then she gets her hair washed and rinsed, then she gets soaped up all over, rinses off in the tub, then she is done. I don't refill the tub to rinse her entire body because like others have said, she really does not get THAT dirty - the water is still clear. By that time, she is chilly standing up out of the water and ready to be dried off. If she was really mucked up, I'd probably be tempted to either hose her off outside first (if it's summer and hot enough outside) or make her take a shower first instead.

That never even occurred to me. Like KF said, I just wash him as the water is running into the tub and after he's clean and rinsed we put the stopper in and then let the tub fill up for him to play. I don't do it because of dirt, however, I started doing it that way because he would put stuff from the bath in his mouth and sometimes try to drink the water and I didn't want him eating soap.