15 month old tantrums

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My dd is having the most horrendous tantrums over literally everything at the moment but especially about having her nappy changed, going in her pushchair and going in her highchair. She makes the loudest screaming noise which is quite horrible to hear and goes stiff as a board or tries to get away. She makes the noise at other times too for no apparent reason. Are these sort of tantrums normal? I thought she'd be a bit young for it yet. Also if anyone has and tips for changing her nappy while she's like this I would very much appreciate it. 95% of the time she's happy and delightful and then she just switches!

totally normal to have started by now. my eldest continues to be challenging and she started at 12 months!

learning to change quickly on the floor with your leg over their legs helps, or changing standing up is handy!

talking through everything and giving warnings instead of just swooping in and picking them up mid play.

giving them illicit small toys to hold during the change e.g. old keys on chain or old mobile etc.

Ah gosh I feel you

We have this from 12 months

Was starting to get so worried also
Nappy time is so so hard always tears and screaming

It’s not abnormal, put it that way. I remember my DD hating the buggy from 10m. I was basically housebound because I couldn’t take the screaming every time we went out. Then my DS started having furious tantrums well below 18m.

It’s really, really hard

Thank you for the tips about nappy changing. I'm still going out with her as she's mostly fine when out and about it's just getting her into the pushchair in the first place. It's really ramped up in the last few weeks and she's sleeping terribly (although wasn't good to begin with) as she has cut 4 molars in the last 4 weeks. Being sleep deprived isn't helping either of us. It's good to know it's not just my dd though!

I resorted to giving my 20mo Peppa pig to watch on my phone while I changed his nappy today... Twice 😳

I give dd something to hold/look at/play with when im.changing her. Usually whatever I can grab thats nearby but relatively safe- "Ooh look at this bottle of sudocreme!" Or a teddy or something. That usually works although not always.

Also a buggy refuser. I try to drip feed it in now in advance- we will just go to the shops now in your buggy, when we get to the shops you can sit in your buggy, let's go and get your buggy for the shops- so she knows its coming. She sometimes still argues back at me but it has helped a bit.