Runaway baby-aargh!

[slowginny]

11mo DD won't lie still for a nappy change-ever.

She rolls over, crawls off, slithers away, you name it, she'll do it, anything but lie there and have her nappy changed. Most nappies are now put on a standing up baby which is doable but when she has a grubby bum, it can be a headache.

I've tried distracting her (works sometimes) but short of pinning her down, I'm running out of energy-any ideas?

I always do ds on my lap. Seems to keep him still. Mostly.

Pin her down! I used my leg whilst my hands sorted out the poo. Not easy, but definitely do-able. It is a phase thankfully.

Pin her down. Its the only way.

DS was like that from 9 months until about, um, last week (he is now 19 months)

It's a phase! DD was like this but got over it - at times I literally had to pin her down with my knee

Other distractions: singing, counting fingers and toes, a biscuit (!), pretending to change teddy/dolly at the same time, getting someone more interesting (daddy, granny, passing stranger) to do it instead!

Or give her your mobile...

Lie her down on her back, give her a toy and pin her shoulders with your feet. Its the best way.

Change her on your knee, it's the easiest way when they're mobile.

Have your knees apart (depending on size of DD), shoulders just past the left knee, use our left elbow to pin her down whilst holding her ankles with left hand. Use right hand to do the wiping. Once clean, place nappy under her bottom, put ankles down and use both hands to stick / pin nappy.

Might feel a bit strange to start with, but after a few times, you'll be an expert!

I downloaded a load of Peppa Pig episodes onto my phone and when we do a nappy change DS gets to hold the phone and watch one. I haven't had an ounce of trouble out of him since!

I used to sing, enthusiastically, "i am stronger than you are" over and over while I pinned him down by his hips. He can now be distracted with keys, phone, ps3 controller etc.

It's a phase.. Although we sometimes flicked on cbeebies while changing or gave him a toy. Now gets toy ready for himself when he knows nappy change is going to happen..

And this is why mums of mobile babies and toddlers dress like they're going into battle! (see style and beauty thread)

BridgetJones any chance of a youtube video?

thanks all, glad we're not alone. My mum says she can't believe how mobile my DD is, she drags people in to witness the crazy squirming bare bottomed baby!

Have you seen the Rabbitts changing mat?

It looks like there are several ways to pin a baby . I do it on floor, sitting at right angles to DD. I put my right leg over her so that her tummy/chest is in the crook of my knee, with her head and arms on the right and her bum on the left. Then I can easily change her and have still got a hand free to give her toys etc. It stops her hands getting into the nappy as well because my leg's in the way.

Bil installed a harness on their changing table.

DS learnt the hard way that if he crawls when on a table then he will fall. I'm sooooo glad it was one of the occasions when DH changed him!

Now I usually give him book or toy to play with. If its a messy one, he passes me the wipes.

DD always "reads" a book during nappy changes, she looks like she is at the hairdressers lol. she is 12 months btw.

... gosh, we don't even try to pin him down. I just follow him about trying to get the thing on. It can take a while, but he hates being pinned and so I try and limit that experience for him to times when he has to be, e.g. on the POINTLESSLY TINY changing tables on a train.

Definitely a phase. I remember DD running off and wearing on the kitchen floor mid nappy change. It was kind of her not to do it on the carpet . Pinning her down with my feet on her shoulders seemed to work.

Jeez, never occured to me to pin her shoulders down (10mo dd) with my feet!!!! I generally shout WAIT WAIT a lot and her brother joins in WAIT WAIT WAIT and eventually get the thing on in some fashion or other....

Thank g#d it's a phase, I assumed it would just get worse and worse and worse....