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When Ameli was eight months old we spent a few weeks travelling around Europe, camping. It was incredible and we had a really awesome time, and I can’t wait to get Aviya out in a tent (if this insipid rain would end!) The one problem we faced on that trip was campsite showers.

Balancing yourself, your dry clothes, your towel, your toiletries, your eight month old and all her clothes, towel and so on, on a wet floor with a single – often broken – towel hook is a pain in the proverbial, quite frankly. And then when you’re in the shower and she takes off under the cubicle door in a unisex bathroom? Yeah – that’s really fun.

On our return to England I started looking for a solution to this problem for future trips, and since then have wanted to buy a Flexibath. I was offered one for review a few weeks ago and practically jumped up and down in my haste to say yes.

The Flexibath is exactly what it sounds like. It’s a bath shaped bit of flexible plastic that folds down for easy storage and manoeuvrability. It would have been perfect on our last trip and will be on the next one.

The Flexibath is 66.5cm in length and 38.9 in width. It weighs a little over a kilogram and is suitable, they say, for babies up to 4 years of age – although I remember my granny making us bath in a bucket on the lawn at around 8 years old because we were covered in red mulberry juice and I assure you the Flexibath is bigger than that bucket was!

Just a pity it’s plastic, right? Well, actually, for a plastic tub, it’s about as eco-friendly as you’re going to get. It’s made from Polypropylene (PP) and Thermoplastic Elastometric (TPE), both of which are free from PVC, phthalates, heavy metals or other hazardous materials.

The base is non-slip so you could use it in the bath, which is, I suppose, what it’s meant for, and there’s a plug in the bottom so that you can empty it out without having to lift and tip a heavy tub full of water.

Of course, once you’re finished you can fold it up and pop it behind the door or next to the bath – it doesn’t take up the valuable space a traditional bath tub does. And when it’s not in use as a bath tub (we don’t use it for a baby bath at home) it makes a fine ice bucket in summer, I’m told, and for the rest of the time, it’s a pretty perfect laundry basket!

The Flexibath does tend to pick up a few knocks and scratches on the way, especially when your two year old decides it’s a car that’s great fun to ‘ride around’ the living room and topple out of, but nothing that affects it working as a bath.

Oh, and if you’re travelling to relatives who only have showers and no baths, like my in-laws, the Flexibath is a useful make-shift bath, but you don’t have to pack the car around an inflexible traditional baby bath.  I certainly think it’s a great idea, and it earns its stripes around here!

Competition

So, we have a Flexibath to offer one reader today. All you have to do is enter by checking out Whitestep’s website and looking at all the colours of Flexibaths they have available. Come back here and leave a comment letting me know which colour you’d prefer if you won.  For an additional entry, you can also sign up to the Whitestep newsletter, where you’ll receive details of the fabulous products they add to their store.  You’ll receive an email a month and you’re free to unsubscribe at any time. If you’ve signed up, leave a SECOND comment below to tell me you have!

This competition finishes at 23:59 on 14 May and the winner will be randomly drawn. Winners will be announced here and on the Diary of a First Child Facebook Page. Please check these to find out who won.

And the winner is…

 

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Author: Luschka

141 Comments

Flexibath Review And Competition

  3. I would love the purple one please. I’ve signed up for the newsletter and followed on Twitter x

  10. Couldn’t sign up to the Whitestep newsletter as I am already a subscriber, I have added diary of a first child to facebook though. 🙂

  26. These are absolutely fantastic! If I were lucky enough to win I would love the Light/Dark Purple Flexi Bath!

  34. These are fab! Id love a blue one for my new baby boy if I’m lucky enough to win!

  37. these are fantastic! , i would love the light purple one please , thanks for the giveaway!

  38. I’m already a subscriber to their email, maybe I should take a closer look at it infuture!

  39. What a fabulous idea, I’d love the purple one – my favourite colour & not gender specific.
    Due to my disability we had to have the bathroom remodelled & sadly the bath had to go, so bathing the little ones has become a problem for hubby, this is a great idea, still room for them to play & splash.

  67. I think the orange one is lovely. I am already signed up to the newsletter 🙂

  82. I would love the light/dark purple one please if I were lucky enough to win.

  83. Signed up to newsletter with same name and email address as I have given you

  89. Well, since so many people have said purple…I’ll go for my lads fav colour ORANGE please. Many Thanks

  110. It has to be the green one for ny green one called Lime 😉

    Nev

    Have already subscribed to their newsletter

  113. great give away i already subscibe to your news letter so please can i have a blue one if its me as i have two boys thanks xxx

  115. Wow, what a great product! We travel a lot and I am expecting my first baby soon and I can see this being really useful. I like the blue best!

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