A mum-of-three has solved a bath time problem by designing a bath for twins. Laura McGlade from Redcar, Teeside spent ages fruitlessly searching the internet for a product that would allow her to safely wash siblings Matilda and Willow at the same time.
But despite 1.6m sets of twins being born each year, she realised there were no bathing products on the market to make bath time that little bit easier for parents. Finding herself in a near impossible and potentially dangerous situation while trying to bathe the kids together, Laura eventually decided to design a twin baby bath herself.
Four years and a lot of product development later, she launched the Bumblebeez brand. Laura told TeesideLive: "The first problem arose when figuring out how to get them both in the bath safely. One would be in the bath whilst the other was on the changing mat. To get the second baby in the bath I would have to let go of the first baby and quickly put the second baby in the bath, bracing both their heads together to prevent them from going under the water.” Unfortunately once the babies were in the bath, this wasn’t the end of her struggles.
