How old was your LO when...

[finallyready]

you dared take a shower when they weren't either taking a nap, under someone else's care or secure in a high chair or playpen??

[A's Mummy]

DD is 16 1/2 months and I still bring her into the bathroom with me when I'm showering if DP isn't home to keep her occupied. She doesn't sit in a highchair anymore so she will either bring her breakfast into the bathroom and sit on the floor to eat it while I shower or she'll play with her bath toys and pop her head around the shower curtain playing peek-a-boo :p

[Boobycino]

Umm 2ish. He's 2.5 I'll have a shower with him watching toons and the bathroom door open no drama.

[Slapmyelbow]

I usually just take my baby into the bathroom with me in her bouncer and she laughs at the steam..

With my 2yo, probably about 16 months. But then that was a quick lather, rinse, get the heck out kind of shower. She's not a destructive toddler though and is happy to potter about and i can hear her 99% of the time as she just loves to sing at the top of her lungs and when she stops i know shes in to something.

I have been known to streak around the house sopping wet just to double check she's okay before climbing back in to rinse off.

[Lock and Lu]

Probably 2ish as well. When I could trust that she could be left alone for 15 minutes. I'd just put the tv on.

[gizmoduckus]

Same as most of the others. After the age of 2 I felt more comfortable leaving them on their own to have a shower.

[bellalika]

About 2.5yrs. I would make sure something he loved was on TV, he was surrounded by toys, had a drink handy and be as quick as I could. He always found me if he needed anything.

[Lemonhead]

I'd put him on his playmat or pram outside our ensuite and shower. There is no way I was going to wait until DH got home so I could shower lol!!

Anyways, once he could be put in his walker at about 6 months I would just let him have a run in that and nip into the shower. DS1 is nearly 4 but he always tells me if he vomits or has a booger haha so he would wheel him to the bathroom and I'd clean his nose etc...

I think you get really quick at having showers once you have kids.

[share a book]

Not sure really because we shower toether to save water. 2 of us in together is always better for the environment then both of us in the shower at different times. It's not always that way. I'll want a shower sometimes after work while she wants to finish her homework so I'll have my shower then she has hers later in the evening. Not sure about the trust thing though.

[sajimum]

DD is 15 mths and I am happy to leave her in the lounge room while I am showering. I have probably been doing it since 12mths. It only works first thing in the morning as she wants to play with her toys!! I have about 15 mins before she gets bored. Our lounge is pretty baby proof and DD isn't one to get into too much mischief most of the time

[TripleTime]

Kids are 2 & im still to chicken. Think I've done it once & they either ran sacked the house or opened the shower screen.

[grumpybump]

DS is 23 months & I just did it the other week. He was playing in and around the bathroom, though.

I wouldn't feel comfortable leaving him in the loungeroom while I was in the shower. I'm a worst case scenario person and imagine him using the dining chairs to climb onto the table and then take a dive onto the tiles. Not that he has ever done such a thing, but I wouldn't want the first time to be when I'm in the shower and can't hear him/get to him quickly.

I'd rather stay dirty. :rolleyes:

[Nowhere]

DS is 23 months & I just did it the other week. He was playing in and around the bathroom, though.

I wouldn't feel comfortable leaving him in the loungeroom while I was in the shower. I'm a worst case scenario person and imagine him using the dining chairs to climb onto the table and then take a dive onto the tiles. Not that he has ever done such a thing, but I wouldn't want the first time to be when I'm in the shower and can't hear him/get to him quickly.

I'd rather stay dirty. :rolleyes:


My daughter is 5 and a half and can never be left un attended, and I cant shower when she is asleep as she holds her breath and sets alarms of ( im sure she would do it just to make me slip lol ) But i don stay dirty lol, that is what high chairs or wheelchairs are for.

Where i am now i can see the living room from the bathroom, so i strap DD into her Ottobock easy seat with her tray and put the TV on ( usualy mickey mouse) and i go and have a shower and just yell out to her every few minutes if she is quiet and she yells back IYOKA ( i okay ) lol.
In the old house i used to take her chair into my bed room and put the TV on in there while i was in the bathroom attatched to it. When she has been really unwell i take her into the bath room with me atatched to all her stuff and just attend to what I have to. Since she has been about a year old I refuse to not have a shower lol, when she was a tiny baby and screamed all the time i would have to for go my shower until her dad got home but now nope, I need a shower. I would never leave her with out a wash so im not going to leave my self with out one either :)

[Misschief]

Being a single mum, it was from about 5 months. He wasn't crawling or anything, so I could put him on his back on his playmat with the bathroom door open to keep an eye on him and have a quick shower. When he became more independent after he started to crawl at 8 months, I would put him in his playpen with a bunch of toys and music turned on in the background and then have a 10 minute shower. I would be drying myself in the livingroom though lol

[just her chameleon]

2ish I think? Maybe even a bit younger? It really depends on the child I think :)

[waitsee]

can't remember exactly - before he was one, the house is child proof and I leave the bathroom door open, he comes in occasionally to check on what i'm doing then goes back to playing in his room or lounge room, the house is small though

[Me&MrMagoo]

can't remember exactly - before he was one, the house is child proof and I leave the bathroom door open, he comes in occasionally to check on what i'm doing then goes back to playing in his room or lounge room, the house is small though

Me too ... The door is always open ...


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[hakuna matata]

Never! Are you crazy woman?! Lol I'm a night time showerer ;)

[kingyo]

Did it for the first time today actually! DD is 18m, I had the bathroom door open and she was happy to watch me and just hang out. Then she pretended to do a load of washing before handing me her bath toys one by one.
I was so rapt to be able to have a long steamy shower exactly when I wanted one!:D

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[cindye]

With DD1, I could leave her with a few toys or in front of the TV from about 2, but by then DD2 was almost 5 months old and So I would only shower during the day if she was asleep. Otherwise it was when DH was home. DD2 is now 19 months and such a mischief maker that I don't think I'll be able to leave her unattended to shower until she's about 10 or so!

[mrswhitehouse]

Haha about 1.5yrs but that's only because he started showering with me! He LOVES it now and will stay in for about 25 mins if i let him! It's ok with him in there with me only time it's hard is if I'm washing my hair so I have to make sure it's not going to get in his eyes when I wash it out:)

[FearlessLeader]

Well i don't supervise my child anyway so it's not an issue for me :p when we moved, i started showering when O was awake. I think he was 14 months? He comes in and stands by the bath and screams at me to get bath toys for him so he can throw them around :rolleyes: not very relaxing but it gets the job done.

Haha for serious it never occured to me that people always watch their kids at home. I only go looking for O if there's too much or too little noise...

[krystallxx]

Never ! My boys are two and a half and I kid you not need full supervision alll day!

[jez]

About 15 months . I give her a snack and the tb babysits for me. I leave the bathroom door open and if I call out " are you ok" she will answer " yes mummy" . When I first started doing it I would jump out of the shower and check she was ok then go back to the bathroom to dry and dress.

[bumMum]

I don't bother showering on my own when ds and I are home alone. Itz not relaxing at all

[bumMum]

Oh but I do shower daily I swear.

[Sunsets]

DD is 9 mths and I bring her into the bathroom with me, she sits in her little Bumbo. I used to put her up on the bench, but now that she can kind of get out of it, I put her on the ground next to the shower. The sight of me in the shower and being somewhere different like the shower is enough to keep her occupied. She would crack it if I left her in her playpen without being around.

[Pinkzy]

Since DS was around 11 months old, he's now 17 months. I just leave him in the lounge room on his little sofa with his toys with the TV on.

I'm actually more concerned about being able to shower when he's older (as in 2 - 2.5 years old) as he'll most likely want to get into everything he can then.

[rhoda]

I shower first thing in the morning while Dd2 and DS are still in bed. I normally wake up when I hear DS or DD playing in bed and I will get up then and have a shower while they are happy playing in their cots.
I have to shower as soon as I get up or else I cannot function!!!!

[mummybynature]

DD is 4 months and I leave her on our bed (massive king size so minimal chance of rolling off) to play with some toys or on her playmat and activity centre in our room while I shower in the next room. In saying that though she is a really content bub so she happily amuses herself.

[lemongrass]

With DS, around 2-2,5 yrs. That's before DD was born. Now I ask DS who"s now 4 to play with her (16 months) in front of the bathroom. Even when DH is at home I still have ocassional visitors to my bathroom cause they want "to be sure" I am showering *sigh* and ocassional "mum where are youuuuuu...!!! and I am replying " I am in the showerrrrrrrrrr...." I havent had peaceful shower since 2007.

[tigerz]

When DS was 10mths I put a baby gate on the ensuite door, shut the bedroom door and let DS play in the room while I showered. I could watch him from the shower. Most of the time he will sit at the gate wanting to get in the ensuite!

[the girls mum]

About 2.5 years - dd now just plays while i shower occassionally popping in to check out she isnt missing out on anything bahahah

[mmy2b]

Haha you mean you get to shower alone? I havent even tried! DS1 has just turned 3 and DS2 is 19 months. So my biggest concern would be that DS1 would hurt DS2 while i was in the shower...

Also as soon as I start the shower when daddy isnt there to distract them their in with their clothes off quicker than I am... But I do love our family showers :)

[chicken and eggs mum]

Both my kids play in the bathroom while I'm in the shower - dd1 - 21 months with a puzzle or book or age brushes her teeth or hair. Dd2 - 7 months plays with the washing basket or the clothes on the floor!!

[bellalika]

Haha you mean you get to shower alone? I havent even tried! DS1 has just turned 3 and DS2 is 19 months. So my biggest concern would be that DS1 would hurt DS2 while i was in the shower...

Also as soon as I start the shower when daddy isnt there to distract them their in with their clothes off quicker than I am... But I do love our family showers :)

Your kids try and take their clothes off? DS1 will now but for ages he would just try to hop in. DS2 tries to crawl in as is.