I'll try both. Rather than buying something, do you think holding a dry facewasher on her forehead may help? I'm not sure it's actually about fear of the shampoo / water in eyes. That's only ever happened in the shower. Seems to be more about the exposure / vulnerability of lieing down. Will try and have a simple chat with her though and see if I can get to the bottom of it.
Mine hold a washer over their face and tip their heads back and i use a bucket and slowly poor it over their head so none goes down their face anyways. They always get a lolly reward as we use to have an issue with DD washing her hair before the tip the head back trick. You can also get those buckets that are a half circle you place on their heads and tip back so the water wont go down their face. Kmart, big W, target, toys r us etc all sell them.
Oh dear, DH and I must just be the meanies that pour water straight over DS's head, lol. I ask him to look up to avoid most of it going on his face, but if DH is in a hurry he just pours cup fulls of water over his head until it's rinsed. DS doesn't seem to mind though. He's always had showers with me, so he's pretty used to water on his face, and is pretty calm about it in the bath too. We use a nice mild shampoo that doesn't irritate his eyes at all. Oh, and we try to make rinse time fun by making lots of "weeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!" noises, lol!
we have one of those blue jugs that shooting star just mentioned. it is great!
i think we got it from big w and it was cheap.
it has a rubber lip on one side that stops the water from going down their face/ into their eyes. ds1 actually finds it quite relaxing now.
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