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?

Comments

[thistleingrey]

I fall asleep if I try taking a bath, for probably obvious reasons. But I find baking soda and a stiff tub-intended brush adequate for cleaning our foot grime (and the occasional bit of red mold) off the tub enough for my daughter to sit in it without my guilt. Then too, my daughter tends to stand and have little buckets of warm water poured over her; she splashes in a filled tub once a week or so, by her request. (Really little bucket--plastic thing with pot-type handle from an Asian supermarket.)

I scrub once every 2-3 weeks. If I can't see the dirt, it's not worth messing with my knee more often than that. I dunno. Shrug.

[metaphortunate]

Okay, ours gets washed every two weeks too.