When did your toddler transition into getting dressed standing up / dressing themselves, and did you switch to pull ups from nappies before they were potty trained? Or did you stay using normal nappies until potty training?
Basically my DS who is 2.3 is a real wriggler and a very energetic whirlwind, so up to now I've still been lying him down in his changing mat to change his nappy. (Not started potty training yet- was thinking about after Xmas).
I know he's older now and I don't want to baby him but he is liable to run away whenever we try to dress him and I find that lying him down he is familiar and it seems to keep him calm and still-ish (on the whole)! I also still put him in a sleeping bag and large cot with bars for the same reasons.
I'm worried I'm not helping him to develop autonomy though. I'd also like to get him "helping" more round the house but he's not interested in doing that and I'm a bit worried I've made him too reliant on me - I know he's only 2 so I don't mean he should be independent or anything!! But I hear other mums saying their LO "helps" with laundry or taking their plate to the kitchen etc, that they dress themselves and they sleep in a normal child's bed, but my boy just says no and isn't interested in helping, and he would never in a million years stay in a bed!
I guess as a first time mum the next "stage" is a bit daunting (moving from baby to child) when your child isn't very compliant.