Questions about Bathing/Cleaning a Child

[JohnnyL]

Hi! I am a student in product design at a university and one of my projects this semester is to design a shower-head type of product that will help parents clean their child (or the child clean him- or herself).

I just had a couple of broad questions that I wanted to ask about cleaning a child (as I do not have experience with this). Anything you say helps! Please do not feel like you have to answer all of the questions I have here!

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What is your normal routine for cleaning your child?

Is there anything annoys or frustrates you while cleaning your child?

Do you have any other objects that help you out (a small tub to put the child, etc.)?

Do you clean the child in the bathtub, sink, or elsewhere?

Are there any other issues you have related to cleaning your child?

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If you have any other input, it would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

[ctay89]

What is your normal routine for cleaning your child?
When he was small, we had a plastic tub that he would recline in and we'd scrub him off with a wash cloth, and then rinse him off. Someone gave us a sprayer, but it wasn't very powerful, so we just use a cup and dump water over his head to rinse him off. Since he's gotten too big for the tub, now we use a bath seat, sort of like a high chair seat that suction cups to the bottom of the tub. The same routine applies.
Is there anything annoys or frustrates you while cleaning your child?
1. Our tub was too small, and before he was stable enough to be in the regular bathtub, he had outgrown his baby tub.
2. There's no easy way to wash his behind. Both of us were involved, as one was there to pick him up, and the other would quickly scrub. It's tough to do that with all the soap and water, because he's slippery
3. As I said before, we originally had a sprayer, but it wasn't very powerful. It didn't get the soap out of his hair.
Do you have any other objects that help you out (a small tub to put the child, etc.)?
1. Small tub
2. wash cloth
3. cub for rinsing
Do you clean the child in the bathtub, sink, or elsewhere?
Started him in the baby tub, but now he's in the regular bathtub stablized by the bath seat.
Are there any other issues you have related to cleaning your child?
Not really.