Nappy change / getting dressed nightmare

[KnockedUpMell]

My DS is coming up to 10m and it is becoming a real nightmare to do nappy changes and get him dressed. He refuses to stay still! He'll twist his body into crawling position regardless of what I do to distract / restrain him. I am really finding it sooooop frustrating. Help! Have tried pull up pants but they leak as he has a small bum. Apart from growing a second pair of hands, any tips on keeping him still for the 5 seconds it takes to change his nappy and get his trousers back on?

change him on the floor between your legs and pin his arms down with your legs

only way to stop my 17mo doing the same!

Can your baby stand? I have a 11mo and I now try to change him standing. As he can't quite walk off yet I found that easier than changing him lying down.

I'm having the exact same problem with my DS, 13mo. He absolutely refuses to lie on his back and my heart sinks now when I get a whiff of a dirty one when I'm here on my own with him. It takes at least 2 adults nowadays! Like others I just end up doing it when he's standing up holding onto the table as best I can, and then when DH gets home at night we make sure he's properly clean in the bath before bed. I'm a dab hand now at getting his clothes on him while he sits and reads a book! Like everything, I'm assuming he'll grow out of it at some point....

I used to hold a dangly toy in my mouth in the hope they would lay on their back long enough to gt the change done

Give him something to play with - keys/phone etc while you change him. Has to be something he doesn't see very often.

I had exactly the same problem when my DS was around the same age. I found that singing songs to him really worked as it diverted his attention. The other thing I did was to buy pull-up nappies for those times when the singing just wasn't cutting it - much easier to get a pull-up on when they are standing up rather than a regular nappy!! It does change though - my DS is 16 months now and is mostly well behaved at nappy changing time - although we do still have our moments!

Best of luck xxx

Have tried the new toy/ something new to play with trick... doesn't hold his attention for long enough for him to stay still.. hadn't tried dangling it in my mouth thoughnevercan, will give that a go!

As for standing nappy change, he loves standing EXCEPT when it comes to nappy changes! then for some reason he wants to start crawling away. It's a nightmare to get any trousers on him too for the same reason.

Anarchy Aunt's suggestion seems to be working, with a slight modification- he kicks me in the fanjo if I have him between my legs and pin his arms down! So I now have him at a 90* angle and pin him down with one leg across his chest, so my bits are safe! I'm assuming this is safe and not going to harm him? (I don't mean my fat thigh being too heavy for him), more worried about him can't twist himself so much that he does himself an injury?

We had this, in my experience it does get better. DS is now almost 13 mnoths and 1 out of 3 nappy changes are ok!

Ah yes, the kicking in the fanjo [shudder]

Luckily DS has realised I mean business and only does a bit of token struggling these days

Have a box of interesting stuff by changing station and give one interesting thing to look at for duration of each change eg egg whisk/ a shoe/ your watch/ pair of megablocks / inflated swimming arm band etc. Nothing that's going to hurt if accidentally drops in his eye tho so not your iPhone. Mind you my ds would never drop the iPhone was too big a prize to let go of we still use this technique at 16 months