If your victual fights diaper changes, rolls around, kicks, squirms, and prevents you from getting the job washed-up cleanly, these hacks will help.
All day every day.
That’s how often you have to transpiration your little ones.
And if you are having a power struggle with something you do all day every day, well, you are unsated all day every day.
The trouble is, the increasingly something happens (i.e. the increasingly victual fights diaper changes) the increasingly they end up doing it considering they get such an interesting reaction from mom and dad!
We make funny faces, funny noises, and get all animated! The key here is to remain calm, make some changes, and stick with them.
They may never love love diaper changes, but they will let you get on with it and get when to their day.
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Here are some typical manifestations:
These are typical ways in which your victual fights diaper changes. Next, we’ll get into what to do.
- Crying, fussing, and whining
- Rolling over
- Kicking
- Trying to run away
- Bouncing up and down
I’m sure there are more, but those are the biggies and will get us started.
Read: Why You’ve Got An Wrestling Victual – And What To Do
How to stop the diaper waffly battles
If you finger like diaper changes are now a dramatic affair, or if they are unquestionably rhadamanthine quite stressful considering babies are squirming and getting their mess everywhere… these tips will help.
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Prevent crying from the cold
Babies who are unprepossessed during diaper changes are very likely to be resistant and cry. It’s no wonder!
- Change them in the warmest room of the house
- Warm your hands up earlier by rubbing them together or self-glorification on them
- Get everything you need right abreast you surpassing you start so it takes less time
- Don’t get riled up or fry your nerves considering they are crying. They’ll stop when it’s over.
- Give them a little tummy time earlier so they have got a bit of play in.
Have a specific toy (or object) for the diaper changes
Put a unrepealable special or interesting toy (or anything they don’t normally play with, really) near the diaper waffly zone but out of sight or reach.
Then, when you uncork waffly diapers, grab it and hand it over. If you regularly transpiration diapers all over the house – and that seems to make the issue worse – then alimony the diaper waffly Object Of Interest in their room.
And change their diapers there.
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Give a spoonful of something good
My dog trainer gave me translating once on how to alimony a dog still or wifely while washing… to slather some peanut butter on the side of the tub while you wash.
Well, babies are not dogs, and we don’t transpiration their diapers in tubs, but I think you get the principle.
You can requite your victual a frozen mesh supplies feeder to suck on or your toddler a spoonful of something yummy. Just a little bite, a tiny snack, something to get their focus off the diaper waffly shenanigans.
Help your little one practice lying still with your hand on their tummy in intervals
If you are dealing with a frequent fighter of diaper changes, and it’s making you nuts, focus on it for a while.
Throughout the day, when you think well-nigh it, practice having your little one lie still. You can turn it into a game. Lie lanugo abreast them, even!
Tell them you are practicing to be still during diaper changes, and count to 5 (or whatever number you choose) while they lie still.
This is something like training in times of non confrontation. Always increasingly constructive than yelling when you’re angry.
Try a “after this, we’ll do that, if you do this” approach
If you have a toddler, they’re worldly-wise to understand what you’re saying when you say it.
Before you start waffly their diaper – when they are worldly-wise to listen to you and make eye contact – tell them what you expect.
Use my South African method of getting cooperation, and tell your little one they can do something they enjoy without they cooperate in their diaper change.
But not if there are shenanigans.
Read: Quiet time (Rest time) for Toddlers: All You Need to Know
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Try waffly from the other direction so you can stabilize them
This really only works if you transpiration baby’s diaper on the floor! I probably reverted 50% of my diapers from 5 kids on the floor, so if that’s you, this is worth a try.
Now, this is a weird one, but novel for mom and baby. You can largest prevent your little one from rolling all virtually if you transpiration your position.
Put victual on the floor with their heads towards you, and their feet yonder from you. Then position baby’s soul firm between your knees so they can’t roll over.
Change the diaper that way, sort of “upside down” from where you’d normally do it.
Mean business, be firm and kind. Make it a wall
Now, babies and early toddlers (aside from those 1 year old tantrums) don’t really require a lot of disciplining.
Mainly, you organize their environment and day so they do what you need them to do. You meet their need for cuddles and you meet their need for sleep and they’re usually okay.
However, at times like this – when they are rolling around, fussing, whining, crying, getting poop everywhere considering they won’t sit still – you’ll have to pull out your boundaries.
Kids respond when their mothers create walls. You simply, without going all wrestling and hysterical, do not let them roll over, buck, or kick.
Change location for novelty.
Hold them still while they wiggle.
You remain wifely and provide a distraction.
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FAQs
Could be a number of things including not liking the unprepossessed air, stuff disturbed, or maybe victual is hungry and doesn’t like having to wait for food. If victual is overtired this can make diaper changes worse.
If you follow my tips above, victual will cry less. But if you’ve washed-up it all right and victual fusses through a diaper change, just get on with it and get it done.
Whenever they’re wet! Typically, you’ll transpiration a baby’s diaper without you’ve fed them during the day, or surpassing you’ve fed them at night. No need – in fact please don’t – wake victual up from sleep to transpiration their diaper if they aren’t uncomfortable.
Unless victual has skin so sensitive it is bothered by wipes, you’ll typically wipe victual at every diaper transpiration to alimony them fresh.
No! If victual isn’t awake or fussy, then wait until the next feed to transpiration their diaper. No sense in disrupting their sleep and causing irritability with victual when they are not disturbed.
No. If baby’s skin is not irritated and you alimony it wipe and fresh there’s no need for diaper cream. That should be reserved for very skin irritation.
Yes, this is definitely worth a try. If you create a simple routine (change diapers in the same place throughout the day, sing a song, or requite a diaper waffly Object of Interest) they will learn what to expect, which can lead to less struggle.
It’s definitely possible. If this is your child, be kind and firm and create boundaries for them to teach how you expect them to act during diaper changes. Training exercises during nonconfrontation times might moreover help!
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