Tips for changing nappies on a wriggling 1 yr old!

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Does anyone have any tips for changing nappies on babies once they can roll away/kick you/crawl off? My two are both SO wriggly it is driving me insane. I change them on the floor, for safety, but unless I strap them down with my legs (one arm isn't enough!!!) they just wriggle away and end up wiping their bums on the carpet. Which isn't very nice. Plus they scream v loud when I pin them down which I can't bear, makes me feel like a terrible mum.

I have tried giving them a toy/watch/remote control/baby wipe packet etc to play with, which works once but with 6 changes a day on 2 babies I am running out of ideas. Is there a magic secret I don't know?!

How I deal with this

Use pull ups that you put over their legs before you remove the old nappy, wipe very fast as soon as you have removed the old one and pull up the new one.

Buy them a special toy that they’re only allowed to hold during nappy changes, I do this with DS and it works. Giving them a bottle or a snack to concentrate on can help too, or switch on the tv or a tablet so they’re distracted by what they’ve seeing on the screen.

I feel you, I have this problem too! Pull ups have helped a bit.

I also find singing “row your boat” and using babies legs to row with lots off over the top facial expressions might keep her still long enough but it can be challenging doing a thorough clean up while acting 🤣

I have a little basket of 'Just This Once!' distraction items, mostly real life things like roll on deodorant bottles (washed out!), an ancient flip phone, an old wallet with expired cards in it, a berrocca tube (VERY important you remove the desiccant from the lid part first!!!) with rice or a marble inside, sparkly bangles from the 90s on a keyring, that sort of thing. And toys I don't really approve of/are too old for them, but a great distraction in an emergency - the Barbie doll is a hit! If there's enough gubbins in there and they ONLY have it at nappy changing time it's enough to see you through the worst of the twisting over and crawling off stage!

Apologies, I don't know why this posted here