I did booksgalore's last suggestion with DD (and occasionally with DS, but he wasn't as difficult to change) - if you duck down closer to their feet whilst doing the change you can play peepo quite well over the top of the knee above their chest. They both actually enjoyed it then.

I got a v shaped changing mat which has helped no end as very hard to turn over in it, plus a toy that she only gets on the mat.

Ah but a practised pin down technique is so much cheaper. Only joking

this is the answer to all your problems. Seriously, it's changed my life!

I use washables and I sewed them into little pullups. It got soooo much easier and the occasional need to wipe poo off the legs with a wet wipe more than compensates for not having to fight.

Mildred, kids are always better behaved with everybody other than Mummy is the only conclusion I can come to.

fatslag - my dd is the same, good as gold with dh. Also when my dad is looking after her.

Why is this?

I couldn't find pull ups to fit dd as she is quite small. Does anyone know what sizes they come in?

Hi

I completely and utterly sympathise with you on this. My DS was a right pain about this from about 10 months until I potty trained him at 2yrs2mnths (it took me 15 mins to wrestle him into a nappy and I decided enough was enough so we went to pants).

What I did;

- I counted him into this nappy change e.g. I am going to count to 10 and then we are changing your nappy.
- If he didn't come with me straight away I said I am going to count to 3 when I get to 3 I want you lying on this change mat if you are not I will come and get you (was v heavy pg so trying to avoid lifting him). You do have to go get them and lie them on mat if they don't come.
- Once on the mat if he didn't lie still. I lay across the top of him (slightly difficult with aforementioned bump ) so that he couldn't wriggle away or punch/kick me but not so that any of my weight was on him. He did not like this. I then said if you lay still I will sit up then, I sat up(these are simple concepts so am hoping your wee one should understand especially if you keep repeating the above until lies still). If he moved I would 'lay' on him again. It didn't take long for him to get the message.
- Alternatively, you can lie them on the floor and put one of your legs over their tummy so your legs form an L shape where the vertical is over them and the horizontal is your other leg along the floor. They are given a toy to play with (love the idea of unusual things earlier in this thread- will get some to prepare for baby girl) whilst you change nappy. They are effectively pinned down like this. Could also sing to them at this point as well.

I hope some of this helps you - my bump is now a 5 month old baby girl and I am very much hoping she isn't going to be like my DS. Good luck.

standing up for wet, lying down (and pinned down) for dirty. I only have experience of one so it could be fluke but it took DS about 2 weeks to get the idea that he really did have to lie down on the rare occasions I insisted and after about 2 months he went back to being easy to change.

I'd go with the standing up, pull ups if possible technique. It's perfectly normal and after a while it will take you about 10 seconds to change them standing up. If it's on a bit lopsided you can neaten up later!

We had this too and pull ups were the answer.

Mine grew out of it as she got older. I usually sing a song or give dd something to play with that she's not usually aloud, a compact mirror, my glasses etc..