Skip Hop Moby 3-Stage Baby Bath Tub

The Moby is the baby tub shaped like a smiling whale, and the shape is more than cute. A soft mesh sling holds a newborn above the water in stage one, comes out for a reclined seat in stage two, and the whole tub becomes a sitting bath in stage three. It fits in a kitchen sink or a regular tub and drains through a plug in the tail.

It is the baby shower gift that makes a first bath less frightening, and it keeps being the bath through the first year. Parents who have fought a slippery infant in a bare sink understand why.

The sling and tub rinse clean and a hook lets the tub hang from the faucet to dry, so it is not living on the floor. Under forty dollars, and it is in use every night.