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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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