wife of baths

[metaphortunate]

Hey people who take baths, and claim it is relaxing:

How does that work? Like, specifically, how often do you clean your bathtub?

Currently Rocket is bathed in a small baby tub, and the Junebug takes baths in our ordinary tub, and let me tell you I am counting the days until he grows out of reacting to showers like we have chosen to wash him in the special Flesh-Flensing Acid Shower of Death. Because right now he gets washed twice a week, ordinarily, and I have to scrub the tub down first, at least a quick wipe with one of those Lysol wet wipes, because, Jesus. I mean, we shower in that thing daily. I’ve seen what we pull out of the shower drain. It’s gross. I don’t want him sitting in that. Instead I worry about how well I’ve been able to rinse the tub and about whether it’s poisoning him sitting in Soft Scrub residue. So, like, I walk by Lush, I look at the bath bombs, it sounds nice, but then I think about the choice of sitting in dregs of hair and scum or else scrubbing the tub and then sitting in bleach eddies. Plus, if I got a bath bomb, probably scrubbing the tub afterwards as well. How does it get to be relaxing?

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[ironed_orchid]

The last time I took a lot of baths I lived somewhere my bath and shower were separate, so dirt from showers wasn't an issue, and I took a lot more baths there than in any other place I have lived in.

One thing is to get out (or in your case, get the kid out) of the bath, and then give the bath a quick scrub with a soft brush as you let the water out. That way any grime and oils that have collected from skin and whatever products you use get swished down the drain rather than sitting around on the walls of the tub.

[metaphortunate]

I could certainly do that! I mean, I could do that if I took a bath; while the water drains from the Junebug's bath I have to be drying him, keeping him from running around the house dripping wet, etc. For me, though, any ritual that ends with scrubbing a tub is not a relaxing ritual.

[ironed_orchid]

Yeah, the important part of me was "quick".

It also helped that my bathroom had heatlamps, so standing around naked in it was pleasant.