15 month old baby girl, bath time and peeing?

what do i do about this? every time i fill the tub with nice warm water for her bath, she just stands in there and pees in it....what do i do?





i drain the tub, clean it, re-fill it, then she enjoys her bath. she's only started doing this. i sit her on the potty before hand but she holds it... i know she's not ready for the potty but i am trying to give her an idea of what it's for, so when the time comes, it's not a new thing to her.





any advice from parents who went through this or going through this right now?15 month old baby girl, bath time and peeing?
This is very normal. The warm water trigger the urination response. In a few months you can sit her on a little potty chair while you fill her bath. I used to put my girls feet in a warm wet wash cloth while they sat on the chair, and that's how I started potty training.15 month old baby girl, bath time and peeing?
You might try giving her a ';spit bath'; - washing her off with a warm washcloth - that way you'll save yourself having to clean the tub. I know they like to play in the bath though. It's actually good in the long run, eventually she will go when you set her on the potty and that will be the beginning of potty training.
lol I use to do the same with my first. but i realized that he peed in every bath, and I started thinking that i would dip him in the tub and stick him on the potty. thats didn't work he would freak out. Then i read the ';confessions'; part in my parenting magazine, and one confession was '; i don't change the water when my kids pees in the tub';. Then there was an article explaining that urine is sterile and would be rare you would need to change the water. So i stopped :) and now with my second, i just accept it.
Well it has a little something to do with this:





Remember when we were kids, when it was a nifty practical joke to have a girls sleep over, and the first one to fall asleep got her hand put in a bowl of warm water? She ended up wetting herself?





It's just some sort of reflex. Don't tell me that even if you urinate before taking a bath, you don't get the urge with that warm water, regardless of whether or not you urinate or not? She just thinks it feels nice, that is all.
My daughter has sensitive skin so i was told by the doc to not let her sit in soapy water in the tub. So... I put her in the tub and run the water, not to fill the tub, just to clean her body and hair. She always pees while i am cleaning her. then i fill the tub with clean water. She is 3 and still does it and wont, or cant go before she gets in the tub.





Not to be a ';green'; freak, but it is a waist of water to fill the whole tub and drain it. I understand why you do it but it really wont hurt her. You could clean her after her bath is drained, like i do before it is filled.
I think it's funny that you would even worry about this. You do know that urine is sterile right? It won't hurt her one bit to bathe in her pee water and she will eventually grow out of it. Quit wasting water it's just baby pee!! Try just putting her in the tub while the water is warming up, then let her pee and wash it down the drain, then fill up the tub.
you don't need to drain the tub, the pee is not going to hurt her, and there is nothing you can do, it is phase and she will grow out of it. conserve your water, and just wait it out...
lol sounds like my son I think alot of kids do it