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Fact: a baby can stand up in under 2 seconds!
Parents kneel beside or bend over older babies – just to keep them seated!
Difficult and stressful for parents…and frustrating for babies too!
Restriction free • proper posture • natural movement.
A gently inclined, open space supports arm movement and neutral alignment of head, neck and spine. Allows turning of the head and moving between lying positions on the back, side or tummy. The reservoir holds water as a bath or allows it to drain as a shower. Hand holds are within easy reach and can be grasped with confidence.
A flat, obstruction free space for sitting and moving to different positions. Sitting crosswise provides back and foot support. Sit lengthwise as balance begins to develop. The floor is flexible so a fall doesn’t hurt. The walls are not curved so your baby won’t slump when trying to sit up.
The Stage 3 attachment easily snaps on. The strong, taut mesh creates a safe, playspace. Because it is easy to see through, you can step back, sit down and enjoy watching your baby play. After using, fold and hang it up out of the way.
Babies grasp, push, slide and roll between back, side and tummy positions to develop coordination and strength through the neck, shoulders, back and core.
No other baby bath supports these efforts. Your baby can do what comes naturally and you can turn your baby over to clean more easily so Tummy Time is simple and easy!
Once there is strength to raise the head, the challenge becomes balancing the head over the body. We call it sitting. Other baths recline babies or prop them up, but this prevents balance development.
Because you are with them, bathtime is a suprisingly great opportunity for learning to sit! Water acts as a calming buffer to jerky arms and legs that are learning how to keep the body upright. Learning in water is a fun, safe and invigorating alternative to the floor. Supporting balance development is one of the best things you can do for your baby and is crucial to later development.
Strength and Balance leads to mobility. By adapting the space to safely support the mobile baby, we continue to support learning through play. With safety and without fear, bathtime becomes quality time!
Stop kneeling and getting soaked. Step back, sit down and enjoy a better bathtime!
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On the left: Bath buckets and slings force the infant head down to the chest because they lack neck strength to support the head. The infant baby’s head should rest as shown on the right: reclined, neutral and allowing the head to turn freely.
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The Stand and Play Bathtub
On the left: transats, hammocks and pads force curvature of the back and chest. Babies are quick to cry and kick out of them. An inclined plane as shown on the right supports a neutral spine and chest where the arms can move freely.
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Babies hate being stuck in one position. The left picture shows an infant confined to a single position. The video on the right shows the full range of movement which includes rolling, lying on the side onto the tummy. Tummy time is natural and easy when it’s part of a normal care routine such as bathing or changing.
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The Stand and Play Bathtub
Once your baby is able to change their position and raise their head, their focus turns to head control and balance.
Babies start learning balance from an upright seated position. They cannot learn how to balance when reclined or propped up in a device. Learning to sit involves leaning forward, on a flat surface, with the head’s weight centered over multiple support points being the hands, bottom, legs and feet. Babies bob and wobble as they learn how to correct their position to maintain balance. Because tipping over is normal, babies greatly benefit by having an attentive caregiver at their side. This is the exact situation during bathtime. Giving your baby regular opportunities to practice greatly reduces the time to learn balance and independent sitting.
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The Stand and Play Bathtub
Babies build confidence through grasping and holding. Optimal hand-holds are firm and well-placed. They are sized and shaped to be held. Inflatable tubs, foldable tubs and foam cushions have weak and ambiguous supports that undermine confidence. The Stand and Play Bathtub’s firm and well-defined handholds inspire confidence.
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Bumps and wells are meant to fix your baby to a single position. In reality, once your baby decides to move these become a source of frustration. Babies wriggle and twist out of these and for a standing baby these become dangerous trip hazards. We’ve created an open, flat, flexible floor with vertical walls that support older babies sitting, standing and moving.
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The Stand and Play Bathtub
Competent, independent bathers stand up and move around in the bath. Because other products push the safety burden onto parents, over 30,000 American children under 4 yo visit the ER every year because of slips, trips and falls. Our three stage bath exceeds the highest international safety standards and each stage builds on skills learned in the previous stage to develop bathing competency and independence.
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The Stand and Play Bathtub
You may use a baby bathtub two to three years. After the first year most babies will sit up, move around and stand. Traditional bathtubs don’t allow your baby to change position or stand so parents must kneel next to the bath to keep their baby seated. The Stand and Play Bathtub lets your baby move freely and safely so you can get off your knees. This one quality totally transforms the bathing experience.
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The Stand and Play Bathtub
The bath product market is filled with a confusing array of products that are marketed to new parents who often have minimal experience bathing babies. Additionally, babies grow and behavior dramatically changes in the early years. No other products have been developed to adapt to how babies grow, behave and play in water. Choose wisely. Choose once. Enjoy more and spend less.
