Top and Tail Bath

This top and tailer isn't really used so much now Lily is bigger and has regular baths but in the early days it was an invaluable piece of kit.

As its name would suggest the idea behind the little bowl is that you fill each side with warm water and then use one section to clean babies bodies, making sure you get into all the lovely folds of skin that newborns have, and the other to clean babies bottoms (which let's face it get the dirtiest thanks to the array of different poos that newborns deposit!)

The little plastic bowls are pretty inexpensive and come in all manner of designs. We bought one to match the changing mat and baby bathroom box which we had purchased.

Although pretty redundant now, the bowl does come in handy on the odd occasion when I have to give Lily's face a clean after a particularly messy feed. And I have also had to use the bowl to give a particularly dirty bottom a clean when baby wipes just haven't seemed sufficient!