Best Baby Gear
Once you're done with the baby bathtub, you'll need a bath mat for your regular tub. We moved our boys to the regular bath when they were between six months and a year old (when they could reliably sit up and we're reliably splashing gallons of water out of their baby bathtub). The bath mats we found were all small, and we imagined our squirrely kids getting beyond it and onto the slick porcelain of our tub pretty quickly.
Which is why we got the Ulti-Mat (we got it at OneStepAhead for $20 or so). Really, bath mat tech is pretty simple. Rubbery material with suction cups, ideally with some anti-bacterial coating. But this bath mat is extra-big. It covers the entire floor of our bath tub. We've taken it on trips with us to Grandma's house, we love it so much.
There's something else out there called an Ultimat, in blue and clear, but I don't think it is the same thing. I'm not sure.
Note to readers: I'm not getting anything from listing these items. There are no affiliate links or backroom, under the table, behind the kangaroo deals here. Just our honest love for stuff that got us through babyhood. Also, I get to test a cool WordPress plugin, In Series.
Ah. I was just admiring that little floating list of yours in the previous post. Cool. And a perfect use for it here.
Ava's only bath mat has ever been these little frogs that suction onto the bottom of the tub. They're a little more hassle to deal with, but you can cover a pretty good area with a package of five, and they're a hoot to see staring up at you while you bathe.
That Ulti-mat truly appears to be the Cadillac of bath mats.
One man's Cadillac, another man's Pontiac. But we like it.
You might be happy (sad?) to know that this post comes up as Hit #5 on a Google search for "best bath mat." Congrats(?).
Yeah, the bath tub and the bath mat are pretty popular. I should start a baby gear blog.