BATH TIME is really important for your kids' development.
It can be a great opportunity for you to bond with your child and provides a multisensory experience.
But bonding bath time also comes with its own challenges. Particularly if you're with your child alone during bath time.
One common issue many parents face is picking their children up out of the bath and drying them.
As simple as it may sound with just two hands a need to hold your baby and towel without getting completely soaked, it proves quite a challenge.
Most parents lay the towel on the floor or flat surface and pick up the baby and lay then flat whilst they wrap them in the towel.
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But one mum has shared her hack for wrapping her baby in a towel without leaving them cold and wet on the floor and people are calling her a genius.
Emily Driedger shared her hack in a video online.
She said: “To the parents out there. How do you get your baby from the bath to the towel.”
First she grabs a hooded baby towel and holds the hood between her teeth.
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You can hold the towel with your chin if that is more comfortable and you can find hooded towels in most stores from £6.
Make sure you pull up your sleeves for this so they don’t get wet too.
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Then Emily tucks the other corners of the bath towels into the waist of the jeans that she is wearing.
No mess, no fuss and no baby lying wet and cold on the floor.
Emily then picks up her baby and tucks his head in the baby towel hood and wraps the towel around him, whilst holding him at his chest.
Emily’s video went viral with over 3.3 million views.
Viewers were very impressed with the hack with many wishing they’d learnt it sooner.
One user said: “Omg you’re a genius. I’m using this!”
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Another said: “THIS IS SUCH A GOOD IDEA I pick him up and shake the water off of him and he loves it, thinks he’s flying and then I put the hood on him and flip him.”
A third viewer confessed: “I always just sacrificed the outfit I was wearing.”
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