Most new parents how to make their growing babies keep still while tying a diaper to them. Babies squirm, cry and wail, push their diapers with legs and try to hold your hands and make cleaning and diapering them challenging for the parents. But here are some tips on how parents can overcome their tiny strugglers:
Changing on the floor is a good idea for babies who are too active and difficult to keep still, so that they don’t fall from the changing table.- Decorate the diapering area with interesting things that will hold the attention of the baby such as a music box, wind chimes, silk flowers, beach ball, an unbreakable mirror on the wall or a collage of baby faces.
- Give something your baby to hold to keep him interested and his hands busy such as a fresh diaper, the diaper cream with the lid on tight or even the wipes box.
- Learn to diaper baby, while he is standing for less crying and wailing.
- Older babies love to chew on or wash their face with a warm washcloth or to play with a small toothbrush or hairbrush. They may also love to rub lotion on their bellies and arms.
- Sing to and along with your baby or give him bubble envelopes to pop or paper that make sound when your crinkle them.
- Some babies get absorbed in reading their special board books or in seeing small photo albums. They love junk mail and toy catalogs too.
- Switch the diapering area, if the need be. Diapering near a window will allow the baby to watch birds while in the laundry room; baby can watch clothes spinning around in the dryer.
- You may also try disposables that can be easily pulled on and off like underpants to get over with changing diapers quickly.
- You may want to keep your baby busy with TV, remote control, calculator, a hair scrunchie, small flashlight, sticker on baby’s hand, opening and shutting an empty plastic container or pulling toys out of an empty wipes box, while you change his diapers.
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