NCN!!!! (Nappy Changing Nightmares)

Our DD is a fiercly independant, highly spirited little person. This is really the nicest way of putting it.
Nappy & clothes changes have been a nightmare for the last couple of months and it's just getting worse.
We're at our wits end as to how to turn this around or ease it atleast.

1. She will not lie on her back for 2 seconds. This, I guess, is pretty normal behaviour and we have tried to combat it through new toys/items at every nappy change, making a game of it (blowing raspberries on her tummy while changing etc).... Sometimes we can lie the nappy underneath her while she inspects a new item of interest but as soon as she feels we're going to close the nappy she flips her whole body around and starts screaming blue murder if we don't let her run off!!
We use cloth nappies, so pull ups are not an option (I dream of using them, how nice would it be...), we made sure the cloth naps are not pinching her.
2. She now has bad candida and we have to thoroughly apply cream at every nappy change which requires for her to lie still for a bit longer (i'm wishing here for 5-7 seconds lol)

We often end up having to pin her down quite hard because she is soooo strong and if we don't, quite simply the nappy change can take up to 30 min by myself because I have to let her go off without nappy or a barely done up one because she just won't lie down.
In the evenings it's especially bad and we feel terrible for sometimes having to force her to lay there. It can't be what we have to do, it's terrible.

Do you have any tricks that we haven't tried?
And no, the idea of EC doesn't seem to appealing!!!

P.S. We give her nappy off time each night after the shower which she loves....

And I thought youy had something to contribute......

I can *almost* relate, Tyler twists and screams if he's not in the mood. Specially when he's done a poo
I hate treasures nappy pants - The one time I tried them all I could smell was wee
I just get all mean mum on him and pretty much just do it as fast as I can or hold him down. He's not the boss'a me! Mama always wins in this house.

Have you tried giving like 2mins of nappy off each change? Like take the dirty one off let her go, get her back and swipe the other one on and let her go again.
Dunno if it'd work, kinda just made it up lol

GOOD LUCK HUN xxxx

diane levy has a bit in one of her books about copying with children who dont want their nappy changed... i'll see if i can find it if you want.

I can totally relate and it's always the pooey nappies that he twists and moves the most, spreading it everywhere

We've had his mobile over the change table for ages and recently (about a month) I started talking about the individual animals on the mobile eg here's zebra - hello says zebra.   Now he really responds to this. I say where is zebra? He points (not necessarily at the right one) and where is monkey? Anyway, he's a few months older than your little one but I'm amazed at how well this has worked. It's not 100% but I maybe keep trying with something to engage his interest, but you need to be involved too (or at least that's what I've found). How long this helps I have no idea, but I thought I'd let you know what worked for us.

I was thinking like kellz, do up the snaps loosely, put the nappy on like pants and then tighten them while shes standing.

Bizzy, that would be lovely if you can find out. Wonder what the professionals do....?

Lol! This is so familiar! The dressing and nappy changes! She just wants to run off (or crawl off) and explore the world! So getting dressed/changed is a huge nightmare for her! We also pin her down which she hates and we feel bad but it needs to be done and tbh she cries/screams like she's being abused/really hurt no advice though sorry! We're 'trying to go with it' and hoping she 'grows out of it' lol no luck so far...

Seems to be many of our challenging babies have this trait as we are in the same boat with DS!!!!

Tried to do it nicely for months but now (as someone else already said it - he's not the boss of me) so I just hold him down really firmly and let him scream and try and do it is as quickly as possible. Much harder with cloth nappies which I try to use and then when it's been one of "those days" I just treat myself to disposables as it's easier. If DH is around, he sometimes helps by distracting him or holding him down for me.

At the end of the day - he NEEDS a clean nappy on so he can scream all he likes. I keep thinking if I'm consistent enough he'll grow out of it....

At least I am not feeling so mean anymore about holding her down with force, knowing that there are alot of other 'mean' mums out there....

She reminds me a lot of our young boxer dog, if she was trapped she would literally rip her leg off to get out. I think a dog hair might have ended up in one of my eggs.........