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<blockquote data-quote="trinityroyal" data-source="post: 208915" data-attributes="member: 3907"><p>My Little easy child has bath and shower time issues as well.</p><p>He LOVES the water and will splash around in a pool all day if you let him. He will spend hours and hours in the hot tub in our back yard, but a shower? a bath? </p><p></p><p>There is a lot of sensory input to deal with, and sometimes Little easy child forgets all the steps. So I sit in the room with him, make sure he washes everything from the neck down that needs washing. Then I help him wash his face and hair. He can't stand the feeling of having the shower spray touch his face, so I wash his face very gently with a cloth and mild cleanser. Then I wash his hair. I have him lie back in the bath or look straight up at the ceiling while I use the shower wand to wet his hair. Towels always at the ready in case of stray drips. I scrub his hair (which is very thick and very curly and takes a lot of work to scrub), and then rinse with the shower wand (again, with towels at the ready).</p><p></p><p>I have to spread towels all over the bathroom floor for Little easy child as well. In his case, it's containment rather than Sensory Integration Disorder (SID), as he will inevitably get hold of the shower wand and spray down the bathroom, ceiling, walls and all. I usually take the opportunity to give the bathroom a good scrubbing after he's finished his bath, since everything is wet anyway...</p><p></p><p>When I'm not feeling up to it, I just put on my bathing suit, take him out back to the hot tub and scrub him down in there. The filter seems to get all the soap residue out of the water, and he doesn't fight the process nearly as much in the hot tub. Maybe the jets counteract the other sensory input and provide him with some equilibrium. I've never thought about it really...just do whatever works to keep him clean.</p><p></p><p>(Now difficult child, at almost 19 STILL needs supervision in the bath. His Residential Treatment Center (RTC) staff sometimes have to observe, but usually just do the sniff-test and do-over)</p><p></p><p>Shari, sometimes I feed Little easy child in the bath as well. It may be unorthodox, but he's getting clean AND fed so I just don't worry about it.</p><p></p><p>Trinity</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="trinityroyal, post: 208915, member: 3907"] My Little easy child has bath and shower time issues as well. He LOVES the water and will splash around in a pool all day if you let him. He will spend hours and hours in the hot tub in our back yard, but a shower? a bath? There is a lot of sensory input to deal with, and sometimes Little easy child forgets all the steps. So I sit in the room with him, make sure he washes everything from the neck down that needs washing. Then I help him wash his face and hair. He can't stand the feeling of having the shower spray touch his face, so I wash his face very gently with a cloth and mild cleanser. Then I wash his hair. I have him lie back in the bath or look straight up at the ceiling while I use the shower wand to wet his hair. Towels always at the ready in case of stray drips. I scrub his hair (which is very thick and very curly and takes a lot of work to scrub), and then rinse with the shower wand (again, with towels at the ready). I have to spread towels all over the bathroom floor for Little easy child as well. In his case, it's containment rather than Sensory Integration Disorder (SID), as he will inevitably get hold of the shower wand and spray down the bathroom, ceiling, walls and all. I usually take the opportunity to give the bathroom a good scrubbing after he's finished his bath, since everything is wet anyway... When I'm not feeling up to it, I just put on my bathing suit, take him out back to the hot tub and scrub him down in there. The filter seems to get all the soap residue out of the water, and he doesn't fight the process nearly as much in the hot tub. Maybe the jets counteract the other sensory input and provide him with some equilibrium. I've never thought about it really...just do whatever works to keep him clean. (Now difficult child, at almost 19 STILL needs supervision in the bath. His Residential Treatment Center (RTC) staff sometimes have to observe, but usually just do the sniff-test and do-over) Shari, sometimes I feed Little easy child in the bath as well. It may be unorthodox, but he's getting clean AND fed so I just don't worry about it. Trinity [/QUOTE]
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