AIBU to hose 9month old down in garden?

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Light hearted
So ds is teething so filling his nappy multiple times a day. Smells something rotten . I can put up with the smell, but, BUT he will not let me change him without a fight! He rolls away as soon as I start to take his nappy off, tries to scale the couch with his exposed shity arse. Tries to sit down on cushions. I'm fed up of trying to stop poo being smeared all over the furniture, floor, walls, me, clothes. I can't pin him down, and nothing distracts him enough. Can I just stick him outside and turn the hose pipe on?

Utterly I remember pinning ds(14) down with a leg over his chest too to leave arms free to sort out the poonami below. 9 month olds are surprisingly strong when they aren't happy and you need your two hands to work on cleaning up.

Always did mine in shower cubicle/bath so I could hose her off! (Still has loose poo at 2.5yrs - never one lump unless constipated!)

She now removes her own clothes and pull ups and runs around naked as a jay bird - fine after a wee but no so good with a shitty arse!

I usually give mine something he isn't allowed (TV remote/my glasses/my phone) to hold while I quickly do it. This usally stops him in his tracks for 10 seconds while I change him.

I hosed mine down in the bath as soon as they could reliably stand. Not U at all.

happymummy12345
Yes it is difficult to comprehend sometimes that people can have totally different experiences to you isn't it

YABU doing it near the sofa! Poo is for the bathroom!

I know the hosing down bit was probably light-hearted but for anyone else thinking of doing this please, please, please be aware that the initial water that comes out of the hosepipe in this weather can be scaldingly hot for a child and for a 50-something adult too as I found out last year We live outside the UK and have hot summers - I really should have known better

It's not really that hard is it??

Guess what... all children are different!

I had to do that once when we were camping. The worse poo ever. A thick coating of poo all up the back and down to the bottom of the ankles. The hose was the only way.

I used to put a foot either side, pinning the child down under the arm pits and preventing any rolling.

There’s a Pampers ad at the moment for nappy pants where they ask what you should do whe the child gets to the roll/crawl away stage. I have trained my children (they’re teens) to chorus “pin their armpits with your feet!”

Time to exchange him for a new one

Ha ha yup sounds familiar. My 1st 2 were change on the mat, no problems, what's all the fuss about... my 3 rd has been changed in the bath since he was about 10 months. And if we're not at home, I do on the ground/ on a bench outside -with one knee on his stomach-.

Definitely not BU. Pop him on the whirly gig after to dry

Second using your feet to hold him under the armpits or shoulders + iphone.

Or stick him in the bath & use the shower - that's what we always did. Oh the HOWLS! But they can't get out fast enough, and after a couple of moments of yelling he'll probably realise it feels nice, so he'll stay put.

I stand my thirteen month old in the sink and I rinse her down that way. She likes looking at herself in the mirror whilst I do it. Saves on baby wipes and there's no rolling involved!

Two words: hosepipe ban.

If the neighbours grass on you then you could be fined and quite rightly.

There's no hose pipe ban here.

I used to do this when we cloth nappied. Killed two birds with one stone as it got the worst off the cloth nappy

You need to make sure the water is cold in the hose before spraying the baby as you can cause serious burns if it's got hot in the hose (or it could happen where I lived anyway).

If the neighbours grass on you then you could be fined and quite rightly.

"quite rightly" but hosing them down in the shower then having to clean the shower saves loads of water.

Personally didn't like changing a wiggler in the bathroom as I was far more concerned about them smashing their head on the tile than getting a bit of water on them.

Actually having had two babies in nappies and weaning they were basically naked and being hosed half their day.

No hose pipe ban here! Would it be better if I got dp to install a hot water tap? Maybe a mixer tap?

This isn't my first rodeo, I do know some children will be more then happy to let you change them on the mat. Sorry to the perfect mums but my ds isn't perfect and WILL NOT STAY STILL UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES. I know, I know it's hard to comprehend someone else's child isn't exactly like yours

I usually have to change him standing up, as quick as possible. But these poos are massive and probably too thick to actually hose off in the bath!

DS had toddler diarrhoea and I regularly plonked him in the shower.

happymummy12345 you sound delightful.

Just looked at the mats with straps, unless they are weighted down. I think he'd just roll over and crawl away with it still attached. Like some weird poo snail. Ds is surprisingly strong and stubborn!

I have been known to change a resistant nappy owner in the bath (not with water in), so the mess from wriggling is contained!