Nifty Nappy Changing

My little grandson has taken to doing acrobatics whilst having his nappy changed. For quite a while he's preferred to stand whilst his mum attends to the business end. A bit tricky at first but she found that if she was fairly speedy and he was standing alongside his cot where she'd strategically placed a few toys a result could easily be achieved.

Recently however the whole thing has become a little more exciting. Now he doesn't just roll over and get to his feet the second she lays him on the changing mat, he has taken to randomly sitting down in the middle of the process. Then standing up, then sitting down again. Without being too graphic, shall I just say it's been rather messy. Not helped by his system having to get used to formula after having only had breast milk for 11 months.

It's one of those 'we'll laugh about this some day' scenarios that isn't actually very funny at all when you're experiencing it.

We turned to the fab Mumsnet.com for help (or nunsmet as my mobile phone predictive text would have it). As I expected, there were lots of ideas. Suggestions included giving them normally refused treats to occupy them. Perhaps a small packet of tissues or the wipes packet. But we figured we'd soon run out of such delights and once you've destroyed a packet of tissues two or three times there's no pleasure in it any more. Others suggested changing him on a raised platform. A fear of falling would apparently keep him in place. There are obvious health and safety issues here, not least young sir's tendency to throw himself off beds, down stairs etc.

My daughter fixed on a system which seems to work. It involves her sitting on the floor with him lying horizontally between his legs. His head is beyond her left knee, feet in the middle pointing towards her right knee. This way she can gently hold him in place with her left knee across his chest and do the whole nappy thing without him really noticing.

I've not actually witnessed this yet and on Friday when he was spending the day with me, I just bunged him a pack of wipes. He had a blast!

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