Nightmare changing Nappies

[NikiLu]

Help! My son is 13 months old and will not let me change his nappy - he screams and rolls over, and ends up crawling off. It has become a nightmare. Has any one got any ideas of how I can make this a more enjoyable time for both of us??

hate to say it but it is probably just a phase. try changing him under a mobile or dangly moving thing to capture his attention and pray it is short-lived.

Can he stand up NikiLu? At this age we abandoned the changing mat and found that ds would stand up for a reasonable amount of time leaning against a chair looking at a book or listening to a familiar story while I changed his nappy. There was no point trying to get him to lie down any more as he would just roll over and crawl off!

We have exactly the same problem.Ds is 12 months old and just screams the place down and rolls.Sometimes if I give him one of his toys it makes it more bearable,but most of the time he still carries on.I took him to be weighed last week which was a nightmare and so embarrassing with his performance.Lets hope it is just a phase-good luck.

Thanks for all your help and advice, I'm glad I;m not the only one that this is happening too!!!
I tried changing hin standing - which is much better but a bit tricky guess it gets easier the more you do it.
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Yes changing them standing up definitely gets easier with practice. Ds is much happier to be changed that way now, we haven't gone back to lying down.

With both of mine I went through a phase of putting their nappies on back-to-front. Rather than fight to keep them on their backs, once they were clean I let them roll over if they chose and then just put the nappy on them. It's a phase that passes, and like all these phases, will pass sooner if the child sees that it doesn't bother you. If you react the child learns that it's one of the buttons that he can press.

I also kept a small basket of toys out of reach near the changing table, and these toys only ever came out - one at a time - during nappy changes. This worked throughout the children's nappy-wearing careers, except during this wriggling-over phase.

Poo is easier to wipe off during a standing up change if you ask him to touch his toes and stick his bum up in the air.

i have the same with 10 month old ds2, just screams, rolls over annd crawls off.

try using pull up nappies as then you don't have to mess about with sticking the thing together when they are on the move. my boy is too skinny for them at the mo so hoping he will beef up soon!

it is a phase though, i remember it with ds1, a bit like when he would not want to be strapped into the car and would go berserk everytime. hmmm. got that to look forward to aswell.