When does the diaper/dressing wiggle phase end?

I CAN'T STAND changing the boys. Joe is a giggly wiggle worm, but Nick screams like you cut off his left foot. Their climbing all over the changing table. If I try to change them on the floor they just flip and scamper off (how do they get soooo fast?).

I know this is normal since I've seen similar complaints on this board. Just wondering....when did your kids get over this?

 

For my kiddos it has depended on their personality. Pretty much by two they understand when I say they need to lay still and let me change them real quick. I hold them down by the arms with my legs while I'm changing them if it's bad. If they fight, they fight, they have to be changed whether they like it or not! It will pass eventually!

 

My son has taken to leaning on me and not supporting himself at all. It's really aggravating, but I always laugh because it's somehow funny. My DD is easier. Maybe it's a boy thing?

I guess I need to teach them to get dressed. If that takes as long as it takes them to get going up or down the stairs I could spend all day getting them dressed and downstairs!

 

My girls have been really bad lately with pitching a fit at the changing table. I've been putting lots of special lotion on them and bathing in baby oil for Lauren's rash. It's like trying to dress and diaper a greased pig. It's my daily aerobic workout.

 

Daniel is much WORSE than Megan - he is all over trying to grab at everthing in sight. I have tried giving him toys, singing songs, giving him diapers to play with....nothing seems to work...I feel you agony. I hate changing/dressing Daniel.

 

Ryan still wiggles. So now diaper changes can sometimes look like a wrestling match. I find that if I try to keep him entertained he is much more compliant.

 

Amy's gotten a lot better from 12 months to 16. Sarah, OTOH, has gotten a lot worse. But I think she was traumatized by a really bad case of diaper rash about a month ago (thanks to mandarin oranges) -- every time she got changed, it hurt, and she developed a big negative association. She is still wiggly, but doesn't scream and struggle quite as much as she did a month ago.

 

My boys do the same thing, :angry: they kick there feet so hard, that they sometimes hit there feet on the bottom of the changing table & hurt there heels, then & ONLY then do they stop the wiggeling because they are cring , so is no win situation..hohum.....

 

QUOTE(SweetpeaG @ Mar 30 2007, 12:33 AM) [snapback]39015[/snapback]
I CAN'T STAND changing the boys. Joe is a giggly wiggle worm, but Nick screams like you cut off his left foot. Their climbing all over the changing table. If I try to change them on the floor they just flip and scamper off (how do they get soooo fast?).<BR><BR>I know this is normal since I've seen similar complaints on this board. Just wondering....when did your kids get over this?


Is it suppose to end? If so, I'm still waiting and my girls turn 2 this month.

 

QUOTE(SweetpeaG @ Mar 30 2007, 03:33 PM) [snapback]39015[/snapback]
I CAN'T STAND changing the boys. Joe is a giggly wiggle worm, but Nick screams like you cut off his left foot. Their climbing all over the changing table. If I try to change them on the floor they just flip and scamper off (how do they get soooo fast?).<BR><BR>I know this is normal since I've seen similar complaints on this board. Just wondering....when did your kids get over this?



hi there

well can i suggest a few things babies at that age are so clever they understand pretty much every thing you say wether they chose to listen or not can be another story i would suggest distraction find some thing that you thing they will really like to look at can be any thing some thing though they dont play with often even if its some thing from the kitchen eg wooden spoon or any thing they cant hurt them selfes with or a book if they like books make it really exiting before you lie them down

asking them to help may work its hard to say as i dont know where you babies are at developmently but is worth a try give them a pair of socks and say here you put these on while mummy changes your nappy or give them the comb to brush there hair or there toothbrush

hope this helps for you it can be such an akward stage but on the upside it doesnt last for ever they will grow out of it

good luck

babytripletgirls

 

QUOTE(babytripletgirls @ Apr 3 2007, 02:39 PM) [snapback]204358[/snapback]
hi there

i would suggest distraction find some thing that you thing they will really like to look at can be any thing some thing though they dont play with often even if its some thing from the kitchen eg wooden spoon or any thing they cant hurt them selfes with or a book if they like books make it really exiting before you lie them down



one of my girls does all of the above...wriggling, running/crawling away, screaming like i'm hurting her, standing up and leaning on me, etc. I have recently found one thing that SOMETIMES works...find something that they enjoy playing with...especially if it's something new. Only let them play with it on the changing table...make it a special changing table toy...if that one gets thrown on the floor at some point, find a new one. Right now i have a book that Ellie likes that i use upstairs in their bedroom, and a dancing/singing "matzoh man" that i use downstairs...it has helped a lot in the past few days, but not always, and i'm sure not for long. Never let them take it off of the changing table with them! that's what seems to make it "special." .she's 16 months and i can't imagine this ending anytime soon

good luck...