If you are like me, maybe you stopped watching the Today Show years go. But even so, perhaps you have heard about the TummyTub that was featured on the NBC morning favorite a few months ago. (Again with the horrible names! TummyTub? A bath that sucks out the fat from your stomach? A bath where you put newborns face down on their bellies? Definitely not.)
The TummyTub takes swaddling babies to entirely new level. Now you can do it in the bath! Surrounded by water! Talk about creating a womb-like environment. Burn the swaddle, throw away the sling and just plop them in that thing until it is time to feed again. (Which, lucky for you, won't be long enough for them to get pruned toes.)
Now you might be saying to yourself: Seriously? A BUCKET THAT COSTS FIFTY DOLLARS? Well, yes. If it stops the screaming you would probably pay a lot more than that. Apparently this special bucket has been carefully tested and sized. (I don't want to be that mother who tried to go on the cheap and threw her kid into a ninety-nine cent bucket from Wallgreens. But be my guest.)
Truth be told, I have not tried the TummyTub. (Can we please, please re-name this thing? I have an instant gag-reflex just from writing it.) I did not buy it for my then six-month-old son, because I also had a twenty-two month old daughter and thought if I squeezed them into that thing together, they might really have issues to uncover with their therapist in 25 years.
But I have to admit it looks awesome. My kids hated the bath and it's probably because I their bath experience looked more like this.
Hmm. Not even close. I don't care what they call it, I'll take one, please.
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