My little 5 week old hates being changed. Sometimes it's just crying, sometimes he looks so distressed it's heartbreaking. Imagine a hundred cats, and then the same hundred cats being skinned alive- this is sort of a noise level he sometimes reaches.
We tried distracting him with a toy (fail), wiping with water wipes dipped in warm water (fail), singing, making sounds playing music (all fail). Sometimes he already starts crying when you start undoing his sleep suit, like if he had sixth sense and knows what is about to come.
Funnily enough, he has not cried when we changed him twice at the midwife's, and last week I was talking about it to a lady in the local children centre, she asked me to change him so that she could observe. And of course, not a squeal from him!!! Go figure, I have not been doing anything differently!
Same goes with drying after the bath.
The problem, except for the crying, is that we change him before feeding, and as he gets into that state, that influences the way he eats (gulps food down rather than drinking properly because of his heavy breathing),