Diaper Changes

MommaHen1984 · April 2014

So within the past couple weeks, DS is boycotting having his diaper changed. If I smell #2 I tell him he poopied and we need to change his diaper. When he knows I am going to change it, he literally RUNS and hides and then throws a fit when I pick him up. Or if I just grab him and walk towards the changing table he freaks. He's so easy going but he really hate this. Anyone else experience this? Maybe he hates the changing table now?

Anjel_9@hotmail.com · April 2014

this is really common.. my daughter throws a fit probably 75% of the time when we need to change her diaper or her clothes. We try to distract her with something for her hands to play with, but they just want to be up and moving and don't like having to put their play on pause.

michelle615 · April 2014

It sounds exactly like what we're going through. FWIW, we do changes on the floor because he moves around so much. You would think they'd want to be dry/clean, but apparently they'd rather not be in constant motion versus caring about the state of their diaper.

ss265 · April 2014

I give my son something to distract him - it used to be blocks but recently a hairbrush has done the trick. I also sometimes sing to him and he usually lays still because he tries to "sing" with me.

acbfreire · April 2014

DD went through a similar phase. Kids feel like their poop is part of them and we are throwing it away, so they hide and stuff. During this phase, we would walk together to the trash can and say buy to the poop.. It got a lot better.

pb_bride · April 2014

Just want to say you are not alone. I'd say 50% of the time DS will go voluntarily to get his diaper changed. The other 50% of the time he throws a fit (throws his toys/books etc) and screams bloody murder. We haven't used our changing table forever... ever since DS learned how to flip himself! We just take the changing pad and put it on the floor. Yes, sometimes he can crawl away but most of the time I distract him with a board book and with singing.

sschwege · April 2014

Extremely common. If DS has pooped I always give him my keys to play with while I change his diaper. It's the only time he gets to play with him, so it seems like a special treat and he lays still for the most part.

MommyAtty · April 2014

Feeling your pain. 20 mo dd is doing the same about half the time. This weekend I was so annoyed by it, I actually said "Look, kid, I'm not the one who put poop in your diaper." Not my finest mothering moment! But I will say talking to her helps a lot. I tell her if we don't change her, her bottom will get sick and hurt, which seems to fascinate her. We still change on her changing tables bc I'm 8 mos pregnant and just not limber enough to bend down on the floor right now.

jess9802 · April 2014

If DS really fights me I put him in his crib and I sit in the chair and his room and tell him he has to be a big boy and cooperate, and screaming won't work. After a couple of minutes he gives up and lets me put him on the changing table, and then I praise him for cooperating and being a "really useful baby." (We are Thomas the Train fans....)

jennyelf · April 2014

My almost 2 year old does the same. Music works as a nice distracter for him sometimes. But yeah, ever since LO got mobile, diaper changes have been an interesting struggle.
Sometimes "changing" his elmo doll helps too. He seems to be more willing to do things if Elmo has it done to him first.

Jbunny100 · April 2014

DS has started doing this over the past month. We still use the changing table because I cannot keep him still on the floor. Distractions are key. I have a stash of toys that I offer him during the changing process. Lately the best distraction is a musical card he got for his birthday. He is totally fascinated by how he opens it and it plays music. I fear the day the battery runs out on that card. Since DS will is just now close to 13 months I am nervous from reading the PP that things will just get worse...

Beth.1212 · April 2014

I'll start by saying that my DS looooves anything roller-coaster-like. (Not that he's ever been on one, of course, but it's just an easy way to categorize this stuff.) Throwing him up in the air, swinging him around, flipping him over, spinning around fast, going super-fast in his stroller and taking crazy turns, etc. LOVES it. The following may sound mean, but it's really not!

I find that if I spin a whole bunch of times while holding DS, he gets pretty dizzy and then he will lay still on the changing pad. I think he's fascinated by the way that the room seems to keep spinning while he's lying there. By the time he starts getting a bit squirmy I'm usually 70% done with the change, and with any luck I finish before he gets to his super-squirmy phase. I don't do this every time, but if he is particularly squirmy, around and around he goes!

aibrean · April 2014

I have to put mine in an armhold. She wants to get on all fours or stand up instead of laying on her back. Even the tie-downs on the changer don't work, she'll still flip over. We've tried toys with some luck as a distractions.

ObLaDi · April 2014

DS (15 months) is the same way. He shrieks, twists and flails. For just pee, I'll change him standing, which he prefers. I also give him a toy to distract him, but his favorite game is to try to shove it down into his poop, which is suboptimal.

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