to think there has to be a better way to change a toddlers nappy...please help!

[ICBINEG]

We are still using a change table which we should have stopped using about 6 months ago.

We also have a technique that seems to use around 200mls of water, 10 cotton wool squares, around 15 sheets of kitchen roll, and more patience than we apparently can muster. The location is our bedroom which means we have a shit covered toddler roaming over the bed while things get made ready and basically the room is full of non toddler friendly things and it sucks and I'm fed up.

Please tell me how you go about changing your toddlers nappy and where, for the sake of the environment if nothig else....

[BigBirdisSaved]

We cloth nappies #2 and he was allergic to many wipes (and paper nappies). I made flannel washcloths and put them in a wipe box with water and a drop of soap. I only made enough to last a couple of changes so they wouldn't get smelly.

I used regular wipes for #1, he was sensitive to a couple but by trial and error we found some that were no problem.

As to restraining, most changes were standing up, but the bad ones were lying down with me at his side and my leg over his chest and shoulder (to stop him turning) or in the shower.

[BigBirdisSaved]

We cloth nappies #2 and he was allergic to many wipes (and paper nappies). I made flannel washcloths and put them in a wipe box with water and a drop of soap. I only made enough to last a couple of changes so they wouldn't get smelly.

I used regular wipes for #1, he was sensitive to a couple but by trial and error we found some that were no problem.

As to restraining, most changes were standing up, but the bad ones were lying down with me at his side and my leg over his chest and shoulder (to stop him turning) or in the shower.

[BigBirdisSaved]

ack, sorry about the double post, it made me log in and double posted it.

[PickledFanjoCat]

Why would anyone seriously bother getting over people using wipes!

[Crushinginevitability]

This has to be a piss take. No one gets to 18 months and says "baby wipes, sounds like a plan." OP do you live deep in the unexplored Amazon perhaps?


Or perhaps this is a talk-up for cheeky wipes, who are doing a big pr noise thing ATM.

[PickledFanjoCat]

worra seriously climb out of that fanjo and come and change my ds. It's warfare I swear.

[Nagoo]

Fuck me! I've had a bottle of baby lotion in the cupboard for 5 years since the first baby and I've only just found out that it would be useful in shit removal!

I remember starting a thread about 2 years ago asking what it was for! I must have forgotten again.

Next sand/weetabix shite-combo I'll be ready!

I do use pull ups for Baby Goo, I get them in Aldi or Tescos are selling 2x38 for £10 ATM.

[PickledFanjoCat]

I haven't tried pull ups, I thought they might be harder ill give them a go.

I've also got a crusty bottle of baby lotion I got bought, but I don't use anything which makes the toddler more slippery...

[starfishmummy]

Late to the thread.....

If baby wipes are a "no go" then try Conti Patient Cleansing Wipes (sometimes called standard wipes) for ds. They are disposable dry wipes which can be used with water, they are large and are much easier than faffing around with little bits of cotton wool.

I get them from Gompels Healthcare

[Nagoo]

I find them easier than trying to keep her pinned down once she's clean.

[Saltytomato]

I haven't read all of this so someone has probably already mentioned getting the sensitive baby wipes like pampers sensitive or huggies pure. My baby has never had nappy rash....

[PickledFanjoCat]

I'm all for that!

[hazleweatherfieldgirldetective]

Does anyone else have a breakdancing toddler? I will grab DS by the ankles to lift his legs and wipe the poo, he kicks his legs out straight, stiffens his legs and spine and braces against my hand on his ankles/feet until the only part of him in contact with the floor is his head. Then he tries to spin. It's amazeballs.

[Climbingpenguin]

half our wipes are just cut up bits of muslim or sheet, soaked in water.

[TandB]

I just pin the little buggers down, using whatever part of my anatomy is available - hand, arms, elbows, legs, shoulder.

Bottom line - I'm bigger and stronger than them and I don't give in to flailing and screaming.

[TandB]

Tiny flailing pandas would be cute. Screaming, naked, kicking children are less so!

[SailorVie]

My DS went through a phase between 10-16 months of being hideous at nappy changes, wriggling, kicking, running off, the lot. As I have zero patience, I bought a change mat with harness, designed for SN toddlers.

Made him look like an upturned turtle

Mum wins.

[PickledFanjoCat]

DS twists the skin on my hand in a horrible little baby-fashion chinese burn!

I flipped him like a turtle today and kept him there until he calmed down, sort of worked but I had stinking looks for my pains.

[TandB]

The best child-restraint method is to sort-of lie across them (disclaimer - not actually lying on them!) at a 90 degree angle, using your armpit to pin them down at chest height. That way the little, flaily arms are stuck on one side of your body while the stinky end is on the other side and you only have to worry about the legs. If you get the angle just right, you can bend the arm with the restraining armpit round to hold onto the legs, leaving your other arm free to administer wipes.