Mommy Tips #3: Diapering
I change diapers on the floor for safety and convenience. No change tables for me. No babies falling off tables. No having to stand up to change diapers. No worries if I have to step away for a second.
I use disposable diapers and would never consider anything else unless they were banned. A colicky baby, an unhealthy mother, and having better things to do than wash cloth diapers brought me to that decision years ago. No regrets.
I just go with the flow when Baby is twisty and turny and doesn’t want a diaper change. Years ago, I used to get annoyed, but now I know it makes sense for babies to be impatient. Baby is smart enough to think of better things to do. And I am smart enough to change the diaper regardless without resorting to anger and/or violence.
Here is an example of a diaper change basket:
Here is a list of what I prefer for changing diapers:
~ a pretty basket
~ a waterproof diaper change pad
~ a stack of diapers
~ a box of tissues
~ a plastic container that my hand will fit into and is big enough to hold enough water for the worst of diaper changes
~ a small plastic container to hold a bar of soap
~ a bar of unscented Dove soap
~ a pack of white kitchen garbage bags (keep away from children) for diaper disposal
~ a baby toy
The basket can used in any room, although near a sink would be the most convenient.
I keep some of the same supplies next to my bed for convenience as well. Why get up when you don’t have to?
I only use diaper wipes when we are away from home.
I recall having no problem with generic diaper brands in the past, but for my latest baby, everything besides the name brands seemed to leak! I do notice that leaking is a sign to go up a size of diaper. In the past, I had my infants sleep on soft diaper change pads next to me to save changing big bed sheets, but I don’t find leaking to be a problem with a large enough brand name diaper. Now, I don’t have a good excuse to bother changing bedsheets very often. LOL
One trick I thought of for this baby was if the diaper gets a little full in the night, but I don’t dare want to wake a sleeping baby, I just grab another diaper and put it RIGHT OVER the other one – over the undershirt and all! That is part of the sleeping baby, rested mother game. It doesn’t hurt MY baby a bit, but if your baby has sensitivities, then change diapers more often.
My babies almost never got diaper rash, but when the occassional redness occurs, I use a natural health cream which works like a charm.
Whatever is in the environment when a baby experiences a serious conflict can become an allergy trigger. At birth, the nurse put Pampers on my baby, and it turned out that Pampers (not Huggies) became an allergy trigger, along with things like the silicone oxygen mask, cotton clothes, snaps from the undershirt, etc. Thankfully, we got her sensitivities cleared through German New Medicine and NAET treatments (energy medicine) at a Forever Healthy allergy clinic.
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