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We’ve been asked by Pampers to find out about the biggest challenges Mumsnetters’ have faced when changing your DCs’ nappies.

Pampers say “Have you ever left somewhere because of a wet nappy incident or cancelled a trip over fears of changing facilities? If so, you’re certainly not alone. In fact, we recently asked 1000 mums about their nappy changing nightmares and a quarter told us they have been tempted to cancel a trip for fear of a lack of changing facilities, while 36% have admitted to heading for the exit due to wet nappy incident. Not only that but 71% said that finding somewhere to change baby when they were out and about was either quite or very stressful. At Pampers, we understand that all this stress and wet nappy drama means baby’s happiness, and therefore your own, is interrupted.

As a parent, you know that there’s truly nothing more rewarding than seeing your little one uninterruptedly playing and developing. But when disrupted by the irritation of wetness, or a lengthy nappy change, their experiences are disturbed. That’s where NEW Pampers Baby-Dry Pants come in. They are easy to change and provide up to 12 hours of dryness – no other pant is drier! Simply pull them on and then, when it’s time for a change, remove by tearing away at the sides. So now you can change your baby’s nappy whilst they’re standing, bringing an end to the wriggle-wrestles on the changing mat and making negotiating changing facilities much less of a chore! This means that you and baby can enjoy uninterrupted happiness playtime, night-time, anytime!”

So, what’s the biggest nappy changing challenge you’ve faced? What has been the most difficult changing time for you? If you could invent something to help with changing, what would it be?

Share your challenging changing stories on this thread – whether funny, stressful or downright nightmarish, Pampers would love to hear about it!

Everyone who posts on this thread will be entered into a prize draw to win a £250 John Lewis Voucher!

Thanks and good luck,
MNHQ

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It is difficult when they have a sore bum through illness ie a cold and changing them is very painful :(

It's the endless wriggling that gets me, why do they turn into slippery eels as soon as you need to change their nappy?

Almost every nappy change was a challenge for us as Ronan had bad reflux. Every time we laid him down a fountain of acidic baby sick would come out of his nose and mouth. So not only was i usually battling with an explosive nappy but the poor little mite's hair would be covered in sick meaning A LOT of bath times!

Kicking legs! The wriggly little munchkin doesn't keep still enough!!

I attended a Frozen event with my children and my baby niece last year, which I now regret as it was so packed that we could hardly hear Elsa & Anna, let alone see then and then baby needed a nappy change, so we then fought through the crowds of people to get to the changing facilities upstairs and there was a huge queue for the toilets AND baby changing! Arrghh! I queued for twenty minutes and in the end, we decided it would probably me much quicker if we just went home. I got back to the car and changed my baby niece on the drivers seat, with no water or soap to wash my hands, before also realising her mum had forgotten to put the nappy sacks in the bag - much to my children's disgust!!

You need to have a career in wrestling to be able to pin down Tiago

I remember having a difficult time when I had my daughter as she was my first child and it took me a while to master the art of putting nappies. However the biggest challenge was with my son, trying to change him without getting wee on your face....or all over the changing area. He seemed to be trained to wet me every time.

An nappy that you could fit easily and quickly would help.

I visited a nappy change facility at the weekend and it was so dreary in there. My dd likes to roll over and generally wriggle a lot, but I find rooms with distracting wallpaper or a glitter ball above the changing table are much easier to change her in as she's distracted enough that she lays still. A grey room with nothing appealing at all just makes her want to leave quickly!

We were on the maternity ward and I remember leaving the little one with hubby and my dad whilst mum helped me go for a bath. I came back to find they'd but the nappy on back to front. I said you do realised the cutesy pictures aren't meant to be on his bum!

You know those funny videos doing the rounds with parents trying to change twins' nappies... that was my life... no wonder I never had to worry about dieting!! We would be trying to leave the house to take DD to school and twin 1 would have filled his nappy... DD and Twin 2 would be outside already... cleaned up, twin 1 would be put in the pram and then twin 2 would need changing... hence another quick change before rushing up to school to get DD there on time... phew.. how did I ever manage it?!

I once went to change what I thought was a wet nappy on the floor of a public toilet, right in the way, cos I thought it would be quick and there were no facilities. It turned out to be pretty explosive and I had about three timy wet wipes. A trauma like that stays with you!

When you get poo on you from changing them but you don't realise until you're away from them and then there's no one to blame it on!

I've had a bad experience on a plane with a 16 month old. My little man decided to do a number two as the rest of the passengers were tucking into the inflight meal. There was no way I could make it to the toilet which was the size of a shoebox to do the nappy change, so I waited until all food was served and then changed him on the plane seats. Another bad experience was in a hotel in Spain as they had no changing facilities at all for baby's and I had to change bum on the toilet floor with a blanket underneath. Was terrified of him banging his head on the ceramic tiles as I wrestled him to put a nappy on. Plus not very hygienic!

My 8 month old is a nightmare for nappy changes. He wriggles and cries, and kicks and rolls over onto his stomach. I will definitely try pull ups if I can as I often have to try and dress him and put a nappy on with him standing up. He also often poops all up his back or out the sides so I look for nappies that come up higher at the back!

when DD1 came home from hospital, the first night, she pooed all over the changing mat and as this was on the bed, is was running up the changing mat, all in her hair, she had lots, and off the back of the mat onto the bed:(

Needless to say DH had to sort her out while I was heaving in the bathroom:)

Dd2 once suffered a nappy explosion in the middle of a coffee shop. No changing facilities and utter panic from my husband. In the end she had to be changed in her pram in the disabled loo before being carried to the local baby shop to buy new pram sheets... It was one expensive coffee!

The biggest challenge is whilst on the move ie. in the car. Babies like to wiggle around alot, some more than others, and DS was a wiggly one. I've had far too many clothing accidents than I could remember.

We did EC with both boys - DS1 from 8 months, DS2 from birth. I remember taking off newborn DS2's nappy, looking for the container and him weeing all over the hospital bed.

After a long flight baby had been sick and in despair I binned his babygrow, after all I had another spare!

Then just before landing, baby does a monster poo that goes up to neck (!) down to knees. Baby drenched in poo. Wiped baby clean and stupidly binned the poo sodden babygrow.

Baby now only has diaper to wear. I found a tea towel stuffed in my bag and wrapped baby in it.

As my own clothes were vomited and poo'd on as well, we looked rather dishevelled once we got to the arrivals hall....

...Where we found all our luggage was lost. Covered in sick and poo and with the baby wrapped in a tea towel I dashed into the airport shop to buy some random clothes.... Saved!

If pampers can come up with a solution for those neck-to-knee poo explosions you'd get my unwavering loyalty and support

I think the biggest challenge is just the toddler themselves! Once our dd decided she didn't want to lie down anymore (and got too strong) we had to change standing up. This works well 90% of the time. Unless she spots something exciting mid change and darts off dropping a nugget on the way.

Once I was changing ds when he was 6 weeks old. I lifted up his legs and he pooed again, it went everywhere, all over my face, the floor, the cot, the wardrobe and the walls. Made worse by fact I was supposed to be going to doc and dp moaned that I hadn't shut the door when he was crying! Could have killed him but I couldn't see through my shit covered glasses!