If memory serves me correctly (and it has been awhile) small babies only need to be bathed in a sink or small tub for a very short time. Then they are too big for a sink and can sit up in a tub. I would not remodel a bath for this contingency. Your bathroom will probably serve you for many years but the bathing thing comes and goes quite quickly.

I never stuck either of my children in a sink to wash them. I gave them sponge baths next to the kitchen or bathroom sink when they were newborn. Then when they got to be a month or two old, DH or I would get in the bathtub with the baby. I liked doing that because I had good control over their slippery little bodies and it fostered fun skin to skin contact.

I don't think I'd install a huge bathroom sink for bathing. If you didn't want to get in the tub like we did, I suggest a baby bathtub placed inside the tub.

We used a baby bath tub (see link below), sitting on either the floor or in the tub...along with a handheld shower. If you go this route, I'd recommend one with a slide bar, for when those babies grow up (which happens entirely too fast!) and start taking showers.

Here is a link that might be useful: PRIMO EuroBath

If this bathroom will be the same one the kids use when older, I would definitely rethink installing a pull out sprayer!

Most of the tubs for infants are pretty large. Most of them can be put on the countertop or floor.

LOL, Julie, how did I not think of that! My daughters (ages 2 and 5) would LOVE having a pull out sprayer, which means that I would definitely not! Unless, perhaps, we tiled the walls and ceiling, and installed a floor drain, too!

Thanks for all the feedback. Definitely stuff that I hadn't thought of since I have no children yet. I figured there were issues I hadn't thought of.

Actually, the idea of the sprayer on the slide bar for when the kids are old enough to bath themselves is great. I hadn't thought of that.

Any other advice for designing a bathroom with kids in mind?

towl hooks instead of a bar (we have 4 double hooks-everything gets hung up..towels, robes, ipod speaker, goggles)

wall tile at least 4 feet off the floor (paint doesn't get splashed or banged up)

Toilet seat with no lid (one less thing to clean)

Very plain surfaces. (easy to repaint and/or redecorate as kids age) We have standard 4x4 white glossy wall tile, white vanities, black quartz countertop, neutral medium tone wood look tile floor.

Everthing durable/easy to clean. Neutral tile, to "go" with a variety of (brightly) painted walls. Definitely a tile wainscot (we don't have one in our current kid's bath, and sure do miss it!). Standard-depth tub (with a fun shower curtain), standard height toilet with a "family" seat (see link). And definitely, lots of hooks!

I linked "our" seat, but it looks like Kohler makes one, too.

Here is a link that might be useful: family seat

"I'm a little anal when it comes to hygiene so I would much prefer not to bath my baby in the same place I had just washed a chicken or where dirty dishes were sitting. "

I hate to break it to you, but your baby is going to be the dirtiest thing in your house. :)

Also, my daughter (now 19 months) still hates any kind of sprayer. A simple cup worked much better.

The little plastic tub was a good investment and made baths easy for a couple months. By the time she learned to sit up though, she much preferred to be in the tub.