Thanks for this thread, I dont have a bath only a really tiny shower and my mother keeps telling me how important bath time is for kids - (cue guilty bad mother feelings already and only 24 weeks!. I feel a lot better about using a baby bath at first and starting the baby off in the shower early now, just hope I can fit in with baby!

Having said that I am now wondering how I am going to fit in the shower when heavily pregnant! If I drop the shampoo/soap I might get stuck!!!

The cheapest Bibabad is 145 euros delivered what is good about it is that it has a drainage hole and it's light and easy to store. I'm hoping my dds won't miss the bath but if they really really complain I guess we'll be getting one!

Hi, we don't have a bath either, my son is 1 and for the past few months we've been using a large round red tub that we used for soft toys we bought it for a few quid from Tesco. Our son loves it we fill it up in the bottom of the shower with bubbles and its just the right size for him, not ideal for the long term but it'll do til we can have a bath fitted (a long way away) x

we have just moved into a house with a wet room shower. Dd hates it! But i keep trying with her. I picked up a huge baby bath, m&p I think, in a charity shop for 6quid. Almost twice the size of a normal baby bath.

I always felt that way about baths, too, midnight sun. I tend to rinse DS off with some warm water from the tap before getting him out of the bath just to get those germs off. I know it sounds silly. I always feel the same about having a bath myself. That I need to shower afterward or else I'm not clean. <crazy>

Thanks all! Love the tubtrug idea the most I think as cheapest and pretty big I think. We have a house that comes with the job badietbuddy so can't move! And we have a wetroom, so space is unlimited (apart from storing it, I guess)

In Scandinavia many homes don't have baths they just have showers, they believe it's more hygenic that sitting around in increasingly dirty tepid water, kids have been known to wee in the bath water so they've got a point I suppose. Kids are just taken in the shower with parents as described previously here.

We have no bath, my 3 year old son still sits in a big baby bath but will happily shower at the swimming pool. Kids accept what they are offered and get used to. When people say you have to have a bath to wash a baby or small child, it's more about them and their own fixed ideas based on how they grew up, more than anything else.

Having said that I'm expecting another baby now and we have to have a bathroom replaced so I am using the chance to get a bath tub fitted. Mostly so I can bath two together.

We didn't have a bath & dd bathed in her baby bath until she was almost 3! She was (still is) a wee little thing, so no real issues re room!

On the odd occasion she would shower & loves them. We are now in a house with a bath so no longer an issue.

we have a bath but both my kids have been really happy to have showers in the gym from around 2 years.

We only had a shower from when DS was born to he was 3. Bathed in in baby bath or kitchen sink, but as he got bigger and more water needed put the baby bath in the shower tray.
When he had his first proper bath we couldn't get him out of it - he thought it was a swimming pool