Re: The Diaper Change Hold
 

The baby isn't at the full extension of your legs. Your knees are bent. Baby's as close as you want him.

Re: The Diaper Change Hold
 

An alternative that has also worked well for me with my bigger guy is to sit beside the child and use my leg over torso and arms.

Re: The Diaper Change Hold
 

:yes And this is exactly what I pictured you doing as you described it. I have yet to actually try it, though. I'm afraid of getting poo on my pants. :sick

My question - how many times have you had to change your clothes after doing the diaper change from this angle? It puts you right in the line of fire, and I KNOW you have boys! :shifty

Re: The Diaper Change Hold
 

hey does this help with them touching their dirty parts? I always had that problem with The Boy, as soon as i unsnapped his diaper his hands would go straight down and he would get them all poopy :yuck

Re: The Diaper Change Hold
 

Yuck. My boy is doing that now EVERY poopy diaper change.

I haven't tried this hold, but I plan to. :think It seems that with the right angle of your feet, you could make their hands incapable of reaching their privates. :think

As of yet, I've always recruited an older siblings to hold ds' hands during poopy diaper changes.

Re: The Diaper Change Hold
 

:yes:yes i am wondering this too.

ok...i'm not on facebook, but i am interested in this. i admit...holding them down like that does not seem very...well...gentle. :shrug3 is the idea that this is more gentle than sp**king the child for wiggling? i usually give ds a toy to distract him and hold his feet together in one hand and wipe with the other. very quickly.

off to read the parenting self talk thread. :)

Re: The Diaper Change Hold
 

It's not an attempt to teach a child not to wiggle. If they'll lay there holding a toy, fabulous!

Seth has reached a point where he is flipping over onto his tummy and trying to crawl away. I need six hands to get a dirty diaper off, and a clean diaper on. Holding him like this with my feet will reduce my frustration, protect him from getting hurt, and make his diaper change go faster. That's all.

---------- Post added at 04:03 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:02 PM ----------

It's certainly not a substitute for spanking. That idea just icks me out all over.

Re: The Diaper Change Hold
 

boys is why I'm so fast at changing them. As soon as I get the poo wiped off of them I have a diaper over them on the front and them slide it under them. It's all about geometry and physics ;) Guard yourself :P~

and I don't get poo on myself. They are close enough to reach and far enough away to not have it get on me.

I don't even know how to respond to that :scratch It's not like I'm roughly pinning the child down. And there is no violence or hurting them involved. I don't have any idea what doesn't seem gentle about it to you :scratch :shifty

Re: The Diaper Change Hold
 

LOL I have done that with all my kids :yes When they get older, you can tickle them with your feet if they get upset and it makes them laugh :heart

Re: The Diaper Change Hold
 

Yep :yes I love making it fun while also having it be efficient :yes

Re: The Diaper Change Hold
 

Ok, I tried this tonight with DS. DH took one look at me as I got kicked in the crotch and said "No way!" :shrug Maybe I wasn't doing it right, because DS squirmed out of it in about a second.

Also, maybe my child is unique in this, but I have a hard time getting DS to spread his legs so that I can clean the poo in the folds of his legs, on his boy parts, etc. This hold only seems to make it more difficult... :scratch

Re: The Diaper Change Hold
 

The spreading of th e legs is difficult. At a certain age, they LOVE to hold themselves rigid and unbending, don't they? I'd try to distract or tickle, anything to get them to relax for a second!!

Re: The Diaper Change Hold
 

I just had an "a-ha!!" moment. I used that same hold with my oldest daughter when she was little. Boy was she a wiggler.

Our youngest used to lie there for me, but since her last diaper rash, she's started wiggling. BAD. Like trying to flip over on her belly and walk off.

Maybe I ought to give that hold a try. She's awfully ticklish, so I'm sure we could have some fun and not get so frustrated (both of us)!!

Thanks for posting this! I, obviously, needed that refresher :D

Re: The Diaper Change Hold
 

He's been this way for the last two years. :shrug Tickling him makes him tense up even worse. :sigh Potty learning can't come soon enough for me!

Re: The Diaper Change Hold
 

I hold their feet in one hand and lift them. I don't spread their bottom as much as I wipe inside of it. Not sure if that makes sense written out :scratch

The key is that no body limb is unattended and able to flail about :shifty And I do hold them firmly--but not roughly and it's not tight. Just secure :)