Please help, am losing my patience with changing!

[MarchNowFebMum]

My 8 month old acts like I am torturing her when I change her nappy or clothes - it's like WWF just to do a simple change. I know she's fine bc she's all smiles the minute we're done.

Any tips?
Does it ever end?
How do I not go stark raving mad?

Common phase, sadly. Can be brief or long depending on your lot. Just carry on .

You can try toys or games or distractions but I found only time helped.

how much time for you?
thanks for the response!

The detail of such traumas fade with the passage of time, I'm afraid! Mine were both pretty bad at changes for a long time. They didn't necessarily scream blue murder but it was a fight until 18mo/2 years. That's not what you wanted to hear, was it?

i used toys and singing as distraction, actually my voice is so bad she probably lays still just to shut me up

one thing i found is that i must use the changing table if i try to dress dd on my bed or floor it becomes a wrestling match as she wants to be off.

not what i wanted to hear but honest so thanks!

i've even tried tv (bad mother) and what's working now is the crawling change - she crawls and i move along side to do change one step at a time. madness

Ah, we are in the same stage of the battle.

Sometimes giving her something too big to hold in one hand (tissue box etc) works. Can she stand yet? If the toy/tissue box distraction doesn't work I find it's easier to change her nappy if she's standing and holding on to my shoulders than if she's crawling away like bloody GI Joe trying to escape from the Viet Cong.

giving her socks also works. my dd still has a strange fetish for socks I though she would have grown out of it by now.