What do you do if you don't have a bathtub???

Not sure where to post this but we are looking to buy a house and one came up that seems like everything we are looking for EXCEPT.......there is no bathtub!
a) How do you bathe your kids? Especially when they no longer fit in the infant tub?
b) How do you ever do Friday night mikvah?

Thanks in advance!

Platinum Member Joined: Jun 30 2009 Posts: 8233

This might be a stupid question, but how difficult would it be to put one in? If everything about the house is what you want...

Hatzlacha!

Senior Member Joined: Feb 16 2010 Posts: 214

1. My kid took showers as soon as he couldn't fit in his infant tub anymore. It was a big infant tub and by then he could stand.

2. Half hour bath is not halacha. At least not for sephardi. But in any case our mikvah has baths and the mikvah lady will accomodate if needed.

Diamond Member Joined: Sep 17 2009 Posts: 3989

How many bathrooms are in this house? I've never heard of a house without at least one tub.
Would you be able to add a tub?

Silver Member Joined: Jun 12 2011 Posts: 707

For young children you can buy a big plastic storage bin to put in the shower and use as a bigger version of a baby bath until they are old enough to stand by themselves in the shower.

Most mikvahs can make arrangements for you to use the baths there even on an Erev Shabbos, but obviously it may not be so convenient for you.

I'm with the other posters, though. Are you sure you can't put one in?

you might be able to fit in a small sized bathtub.

Platinum Member Joined: Jan 01 2006 Posts: 48157

what about the kind of tub that you walk into ?

We used to consider no bathtub a deal breaker, but indeed we reconsidered. A child can be showered when he can't fit a baby bathtub, and mikve wise you can either bathe there if anyway you can't go on shabbes, or ask a heter. So it's a thing to discuss with your rav Wink

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