My child screams loudly every time I try to wash him.how can we both get more pleasure from bathing?

If your child screams every time you try to immerse him in water, it means either he is hungry, or that the water is too hot or cold, or you have a child who does not like being in the water alone. After all, his safety may be in jeopardy. That's how we enjoyed bathing our children. Take your child to a large bath with them. Prepare the water, a little cooler than when you wash, then undress and strip your baby. Hold it to yourself while you go into the water, then sit, lean back and enjoy this warm skin-to-skin contact. If your child still protests, first sit in the bath

themselves, all of its kind showing how you like to swim. Then ask someone to give you a baby while you continue to sit in the tub. Mom, do not be surprised if at this time your child wants to take a breast. This is a natural reaction to the proximity of your chest. If your child still does not want to enter the water in your arms, calm it, first attaching it to your chest, slowly enter the bath, then gradually lower your arms, immersing the child still sucking your breast into the water. So you will get special pleasure from feeding and bathing the baby. When your child becomes older, it can lure in water bathing toys, such as a traditional rubber duck. When taking a bath together, be extremely careful not to slip. While you are getting used to bathing with your child, it is safer to pass the child to another person or to put it on a towel, instead of leaving the bath with him on his hands.

Here is another trick of our family to persuade the child to wash. It consists in fixing the child in the memory that something pleasant always follows the event that causes him mixed feelings. After bathing, you can take the time to hold the baby in your arms and gently shake it. Or complete the bath with a relaxing massage. The child will develop an association between pleasure and washing as a wet stage, which should be reconciled to get a full massage.(See the section on children's massage at the end of this article.)

Over the years, we have washed many children. There is no right or wrong way to wash a child - there is only one that works in your case with a minimum of tears. We have learned to treat bathing more as a ritual of manifestation of parental attention, rather than as a strict hygienic prescription;in this case less tension, as if not to miss a single fold. Enjoy bathing your baby and bathing with him just as another way to get closer to your baby.