Blooming Baby Bath Lotus. Sounds adorable right? Yes. Sounds like a must have right? Okay, yeah I’d agree to that. Blooming Baby Bath Lotus,sounds like absolute heaven for your baby’s bottom during tubby time, right? I’d say so. It sounds like a practical baby item that is certainly worth having. Right? Eh not so much in my opinion. Blooming Baby Bath Lotus for sure makes for some adorable and charming photo-worthy shots. (As you can see below my daughter Maxly featuring her flower.) But it is not an efficient everyday baby item. And I’m all for efficient. I’m usually game for all things baby honestly and all things cute, but when it comes to being functional… that’s a top priority 100%. Before testing this product out for ourselves I spoke highly of the Blooming Baby Bath Lotus to a few new mommy’s that I’ve befriended, but I take my optimism back. I would not recommend this product to anyone. Sorry not sorry.
Being a lover of all things flowers and all things of bright colors, I thought The Blooming Baby Lotus was a baby must have. (Ha-ha on me.) In fact it was one of the first items I had put on my baby registry. Well thank goodness I did that and didn’t spend $39.99 on it myself because I would have been beyond displeased. Let me refrain, I’d be freaking pissed. The lotus is made of a comfortable fabric –plush– but the freaking thing just does not dry. EVER. She bathed in it. I had rung out each petal and the middle four solid times. Hung it up to air dry and went back just over 24 hours later and it was still sopping wet! SOPPING. You’d think it’d be made of a better and competent material such as Nylon or something so it’d dry faster, but no. The company claims you can air dry it or throw it in the dryer for 15 minutes. Well if you don’t have a dryer handy you’d think air drying it would work as they claim, but it doesn’t. This alone just irked me to no end. I’m in a small enclosure and it’s raining outside… so where do I leave the lotus to dry when I need to use the shower?
The other thing too is the lotus has no structure within the petals. So unless you have a very very very tiny sink, the petals just flop to the side and kind of just do whatever they want. As noted previously my daughter just turned four months old, she can’t sit up fully yet by herself so I’d like to lay her down within the flower to bathe her but she’ll still hit her head on the sink. NG as they say in the car business, aka no good. I’m no inventor or a manufacturer, so I don’t know the solution but I’m sure something as simple as wires within the petals would fix the problem.
Yes the lotus eliminates the need for a plastic tub, or a mesh seat like I use in our tub at home, but I see nothing wrong with what I’m using. My daughter loves it. My idea with registering for The Blooming Baby Bath Lotus was to use it at my mother’s beach cottage in Rhode Island since there is no bathtub there, just a shower. I will continue to use it for a bit though until I figure out an alternative for the kitchen sink there. But as soon as an alternative surfaces out with the flower. The lotus in my opinion is just not cutting it.
I’ve read reviews to see if anyone else was finding an issue with their blooms. One person on the Baby Bloom website said “best thing since disposable diapers.” NOPE. Are these people drinking? Are they even paying attention? The best thing since disposable diapers would be the Baby Brezza (but I’ll leave touch on that at a later date).
“This baby bathtub sink insert is beautiful. But I had a really difficult time using it. I tried it in the kitchen sink (standard stainless steel double sink) where it wanted to fold itself around the baby. The photo shows a baby sitting in it with an adult hand close by… however, I was unable to take my hand off the baby. I had to support his back and simultaneously hold some of the “petals” down. So I tried it in my bathroom sink, which is shallower and smaller than the kitchen sink. The flower wouldn’t fold hardly at all. It kept wanting to straighten out, even with the baby sitting on it” – Phyllis Franklin, Amazon Review. Now this is a review I can get on board with. Wayne J. Roberts also agrees, “I have been using this bath for three months and I am finally annoyed enough to write a review. I was so excited when I ordered this bath, and I really wanted to love it, but I just can’t. This is THE CUTEST BABY BATH ever. That being said, it is NOT FUNCTIONAL AT ALL.” This is why I love Amazon because real people post real reviews versus the Blooming Baby Bath Lotus website which will just share positive reviews.
The thought behind the product is grand. Brilliant in fact. I’ll give you that. But the product itself needs tweaking. And until the Blooming Bath Team improves their lotus I will stand by my opinion and not recommend it to (future) parents.
The Word of Mommy Morgan✨🌿 