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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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Simple one that every parent experiences:
My DD is 6mo and has learned to crawl. As soon as I get her dirty nappy off, she's off! She escapes and I end up chasing a naked baby around the living room and sometimes, waits until her nappy is off, crawls away and then does a wee!! Driving me nuts!

Why would you want to leave your child sitting in their own excrement for 12 hours?

My nightmare was the day I got ds2's tongue tie snipped. Had to travel quite a way, and he went on a nappy-using spree getting through all 5 I had with me in under two hours. Luckily could improvise with a muslin and a plastic bag long enough to get home!

Our major issue is that DH is a SAHP and he really struggles to find changing facilities that are not in the ladies toilets!

DD had a marvellous poonami while she was in the sling at the park. Leaked through her leggings and all over the sling. Had to change her in the car and learned the hard way not to put her on a sloping passenger seat as she will roll and poo will go everywhere...

But, saying that, the only times I've had incidents like that have been when using disposables. I've never had a poo explosion with a reusable nappy.

Going somewhere with rubbish changing facilities! Dd and I have become great at changing her nappy standing up just because I couldn't bring g myself to put her on some of the units out there! A roll up/disposable pampers changing mat would be a brilliant promotion!

I can remember changing ds' sandy nappy when we were on the beach, just about ready to go home.

He cried and screamed and said he wanted to paddle again so we said 'one last time'. Of course he decided to sit down in the rock pool immediately, so had to do it all again! It was a very funny sight though - his nappy was at maximum saltwater capacity!

Didn't take the changing bag for 4 month old DD to a funeral.
There was an incident.
The vicar insisted on a cuddle as me, DM & DS were trying to escape to Boots & wouldn't take the hint... Wonder how one gets baby crap out of a cassock...

Eventually we pried her from his arms & I hid with her in the accessible toilet til they came back with wipes, nappies & an outfit. Everything else went in the bin.
Never to be repeated!

This thread has made me laugh out loud! Two nappy changing disasters with DS1 - first a classic poonami which occurred at Drs surgery when he was having his first vaccinations. We had to be evacuated to another room so I could practically give him a bath with baby wipes to get him clean. Another occasion I was changing him and he managed to wee into his own mouth. I was distraught at first till I realised I could do nothing about it! I have changed him many a time on the floor / my lap / in the park / in the car etc. I have started leaving a couple of nappies and some wipes in various places other than the changing bag, like the car boot, bottom of the buggy, downstairs in our house etc. to hopefully ensure I am always prepared!

to keep the toddler still while changing nappy is the biggest challenge i face everyday

Trying to change ds (poonami!) on one of those drop down tables. I was trying to stop him rolling with one band and change/clean him with the other. There was nowhere to put anything down other than on his buggy and I managed to drop his clean clothes onto his dirty ones. He went home wrapped in my cardi!!

After a lovely meal in a restaurant DD aged 10 months at the time, decided to blast all of what she had just consumed in a mighty explosion of a nappy!
I had to carry her (in a way as not to get poo on me or anyone / anything else) to the changing facilities - which was part of the disabled toilet and was absolutely filthy!
I had nowhere to put DD but had to do a complete outfit change, use about a full packet of baby wipes, and clean her & me - all whilst she screamed the place down!
Nightmare

John Lewis is a mummy's dream...I cant understand why more shops have not recognised the benefit of great baby feeding/changing facilities. Every time I go shopping, I make sure we are near JL so that I can feed and change her easily and 9 times out of 10 I'll buy a little something while I am in. It's genius marketing. I would like to see such facilities commonplace in high street shops. I actively avoid certain parts of the city where I know there are no decent changing facilities.

My changing facilities story was in a large national pizza restaurant chain. DD had had a poo explosion, I asked the staff who explained there were no baby changing facilities, but they recommended using the bench seating in the quieter side room of the restaurant. There was no-one in the section so I went ahead, but felt massively uncomfortable, & would never want to eat there again knowing they tell customers to use the seating as a poo explosion changing station!

Not enough wipes! I have nightmares about running out of wipes when dealing with a poonami! I always carry two packs when we're out and about.

There's been a few...one that jumps to mind:

Trying to get ready for DDs 6-week check. She weed as soon as I took the nappy off and it spread along the changing mat up her back and into her (rather abundant!) hair and all over the floor my trousers- ended up trying to rinse the wee out of her hair and running late for the GP. Can we have a changing mat that's sloped so it runs downwards with some kind of wee-trough at the bottom to catch it?

My biggest challenge with DS was once he could crawl. I had to have everything really close to hand, change him quickly, never actually let go of him completely and keep up an animated performance of nursery rhymes. I even tried giving him something interesting (and not usually allowed) to hold but that didn't work whereas DD was happy to lie quietly to have her nappy changed holding a toy and "chatting" to me. Worst place to change DS was on the back seat of the car at a sporting event.

Ds is only 14 weeks and already we've encountered a few difficulties. Finding a changing table in the loos of M & S, but no way for me to go to the loo. Dashing to the ladies in JohnLewis after a poonami, only to find no changing facilities at all! They were 2 floors up. I changed him.in the pram on that occasion as i couldn't face traipsing across the shop to the lift, 2 floors up when poop was seeping through his clothing.

And a full nappy and outfit change in the car bit after only a 10 minute journey. Poor naked baby in the boot!

We have tried many many nappies but still don't have one that lasts all night. He has pampers baby dry on at 10pm but needs changing at 4 to prevent leaks.

We are quite outdoorsy and used to have a van. When DS was 4 or 5 months old, we went out for a walk in the Peak District on a crispy winter day. Later that day he needed changing, so we lay him down in the back of the van. Just as we took his nappy off, a gust of icy cold wind blasted into the van, resulting in what we still refer to as "The Grindleford Scream" - icy wind on warm baby boy bits!

The oddest situation was in an Italian Restaurant in S Wales - seemingly very family friendly; high chairs, colouring, kids portions, little cutlery, but no changing facilities. Toilets were tiny, no room to crouch down and do it on floor. When I asked, I was told that the owner's wife would take DS upstairs to do it. Erm, no.

My worst was DS's first baby group. I forgot to put a new pack of baby wipes in my bag and only had one wipe left when DS did the biggest poo ever. It immediately soaked though everything, including onto my jeans. I had to try and clean him, change him and get him looking half decent. I managed so far, I had just put a new vest on him when he was sick all down his front. It was one of those days when you needed to give up and put baby in a bath!

Leaky newborn poo is just THE biggest challenge. When it just comes and comes and is still coming out when you are trying to change the nappy because there is nowhere else for it to go.

I remember running upstairs with my son to change him as the poo dripped all over the stairs. My other son needed changing at toddler group and by the time i found someone to keep an eye on the toddler while i changed my newborn, the poo had reached all the way up his back.

I've definitely cancelled outings because of nappy worries with my first child and then became more relaxed when i figured out that anywhere would do...with second and third we've used boot of the car, standing up nappy changes, in the buggy, we didn't put life on hold because of nappy changes the way we did with the first baby.

Our most memorable nappy situation was a sneeze during a nappy change which resulted in runny baby poo shooting out at me over my hair, face, onto my clothes, and then months later we took a look at some stains on the airing cupboard door (which was behind me at the time of the nappy change) and as i wiped the stains with a baby wipe, the sudden realisation hit me that this was more of my sons poo that had reached all the way to the airing cupboard door!!!

oh and in terms of inventing something to help, i would say something to aid the memory in terms of remembering to take baby wipes everywhere with you and never ever letting them run out!!!

It really isn't fun having to make do with soggy wet loo roll in public loos because you've forgotten the wipes.

Any nappy change that involves the crocodile death roll and poo.

You know the one. Legs together, tethered by your hand at the ankles. And twist.

Now ds is old enough to be running around and yet too young to understand why I need him to stay still changing nappies is a nightmare! We've tried the stay dry nappy pants and whilst much easier to get on having to take trousers, shoes etc off is a pain! Also agree with others having to change on the floor is often very unpleasant but changing tables often result in screaming rolling and standing which is just not safe and very stressful!

Twisty babies when they are little and runaway toddlers when they are bigger!! Nightmare!!

better changing facilities for dads