Are they a waste of money???

[Indadhanu]

I agree with queenbee, each baby is different. Jazz tolerated her baby bath TWICE before she'd scream the house down, she HATED not being able to float, kick and splash in the water, and those lay back bath seats, and even the babyhood support, would have been no use! So glad the baby bath and change table were given to us or I'd be kicking myself (we stopped using the change table from 3.5m). She's been in the big bath with us from about 2 weeks old!

[sweetpea678]

i use the laydown thing rayray mentioned, love it bub lays on i fill the water up so that it comes up the sides of it, she love being able to kick aobut. Have a swivel seat from dd#2 for when she can sit, loved that with my daughter older daughter.

[Nadine]

Just adding I used our lay down baby seat in the baby bath, so the water was nice a deep and she didn't get cold.

But I also agree that every baby is different and what works for one may not work for another.

Good luck

[~breeze~]

Yes every baby is different so its kind of a trial & error with each baby...

DD had a plastic seat thing that laid down for infants & sat up as they got bigger & had a play bar accross the front of it. We ended up getting rid of that once she was sitting up & got a swivel seat... fantastic!! She loved it.

At the moment for DS we have the wire bar one with the terry towelling square. Its a real back saver for me. I use it in the big bath & it means I dont have to be "holding" him the whole time. I can kneel on the floor at the side of the bath & admire my little boy enjoying his bath, sometimes with his big sister in there with him. He never has long baths yet so we dont have the problem of getting cold.

I sold DD's swivel seat when I moved to Townsville in 2006 (I tried to get rid of all her baby items... she had just turned 1) so I will be buying a new one for DS soon for when he starts sitting up by himself.

[DoubleK]

i have been thinking about getting something like that for this bub, dd had a sit up bath seat from about 6 months, it was an absolute godsend!

ive not looked into the little baby ones yet, but i did find it hard bathing dd in the big bath without any support, not sure how im going to go with 2!!

[feeb]

recently bought a baby bath seat tryed to use it DS screamed and hated it, he either has a bath with one of us or has a few inches in bottom of bath and he lays flat and loves it moves up and down bath so much so its a fun game!!!

will try seat again soon

[onthefly]

We never used one. We would hold him in the big bath when he was little (which does get a little tiring after a while, to be honest) and then once he could sit up we just sat him in there on a non-slip mat.
I'm sure some of them are probably really handy early on, especially if you have a bad back or anything like that.

[Leigh26]

Thanks for your replies. I went and bought a swivel seat today from Toys R Us, can't use it until my baby is 6 months old. Until then we'll use her baby bath, which she loves at the moment anyway.