How do you change diapers?

[countthestars]

i have always slid a new diaper under the baby before opening the old one and wiping up. For some reason all of our relatives take off the old diaper and leave the naked butt there free to pee or poop everywhere without the protection of another diaper. Whyyyy!?!

[SJ]

I leave the naked butt there. I have no idea why, but we've never had any issues.

[VillainV]

I do new diaper under old one, then remove old one. Unless it's going to be really messy, then I don't because I don't want to get the new diaper dirty.

[spk926]

I've done it both ways but for the most part I slide the new diaper under the old one. DD never once peed or pooped during a diaper change so it wasn't really risky I guess??

[redpenmama]

With a newborn/infant, I usually slide the new diaper underneath. Now, with a 2-year-old, I just hold his ankles in the air, wipe quickly, and slide the new diaper under while his now clean booty is in the air.

[dcn]

New diaper under for sure. Even now with my three year old lol.

[halfpint]

I used to put a clean diaper under, especially if I knew it was poop.

Now we risk it - at 2 and some change, he basically holds his butt in the air for me. It's probably a sign that he's ready for PT'ing again, he can practically change his own diaper at this point.

[krystee]

I do new diaper under. My H doesn't. We have not had any pee issues since he was three weeks old. However, in the first three weeks, my H was peed on approximately 137 times.

[jorja]

I do not do the new diaper under.

I have a girl, though. I'm pretty sure she peed on the changing table a few times when she was tiny, lol.

[kaycee]

Jan 20, 2016 22:39:32 GMT -5 @this said:

Loosen diaper tabs but leave diaper on
Prep/unfold new diaper and set 2 inches from baby
Open diaper
Wipe as QUICKLY AS HUMANLY POSSIBLE
Slide dirty diaper out
Slide new diaper in

Naked bottom is exposed for less than a second and no risk of poop or pee getting on fresh diaper.

ETA: I know nothing about boy diapers. lol

Exactly what you said. Except now that I have a boy the open diaper step is open, close, open to avoid pee in the air.

[Koala]

New diaper under. We use a washcloth to keep DS covered. Wipe. The wipe goes into the old diaper when we take it away. Apply Butt paste. Close diaper.

[speckledfrog]

Naked booty.

[redwino]

I do both but mostly leaving the booty out. I oly slide the diaper under if I'm around other people.

[motzie]

After maybe 2 months I leave the naked butt out there. Never had an issue past the newborn stage. Hell, with newborns even having the diaper under there doesn't even help you sometimes.

[Queen Mamadala]

Usually new diaper under 90% of the time. I have done it this way since I was 10+ when I changed my sister's and stepbrothers' diapers. My 14 month old is super wiggly and sometimes protests diaper changes, so we've had to get creative.

[aprilsails]

We cloth diaper and its a replaceable insert if she has only peed so we keep a spare cloth prefold under her butt. It is required about once a week. She has talents.

[booboo173]

Only slid new diaper under when he was small. Now I just leave naked butt there. It's hasn't been an issue

[bowies]

As a newborn: New diaper under, open old diaper, drop a teeny washcloth on his penis to cover it (we were gifted these and they served no other purpose as far as I could tell), wipe, old wipes into old diaper, secure new diaper and clothing, close up old diaper and toss, pick up baby and head to bathroom to wash hands.

Now: Unfold diaper, set to side, open old diaper, wipe, put wipes in old diaper, close up old diaper and toss, put new diaper on, etc.

I know nothing about girl diapers.

[whiskeyandwine]

I just started the new diaper under the butt thing. Isaac peed on me twice in one weekend so I had to change my approach.

[loira]

Really poorly at this point. It takes us at least 5 minutes during which time she screams bloody murder.

#newparentsfail

[irishbride2]

I have never ever put a new diaper underneath.

I wipe and do all that with the old diaper there, then slide the new one in once the butt is clean.



In the one second it takes to remove the old and put on the new, I have never in my 6 years of parenting had a kid poop on the table.

[curbsideprophet]

I don't think I have ever slid the diaper underneath first. Seems you risk getting that diaper dirty if the old one is poopy.

We use cloth so there is always a prefold underneath though.

For DS we did do open, close, open more than with DD.

[nextbigthing]

Slide new diaper underneath
Check if there's poo, if so get wipes, etc
Untape dirty diaper and open
Wipe then put dirty wipes in dirty diaper
Slide dirty diaper out and roll up
Apply cream if needed
Tape clean diaper shut

[Deleted]

I use @this's method. I did clean diaper underneath for a little bit at first, but I kept getting the tabs of the old diaper caught on the new diaper and making a mess So I stopped.

[felicity]

New diaper under. Always. DS is 14 months.

This is leftover from being projectile pooped on multiple times when he was a newborn while changing diapers. I used to change him in the PNP when we had it raised up and had to clean off the sides multiple times. DS had...issues. Sorry for the TMI.

I also keep a stack of those baby washcloths nearby to cover his penis while changing poop diapers to avoid being peed on. Pee diapers I just slip the old one off over top and have the new one ready to go underneath.

[irishbride2]

Jan 21, 2016 6:22:12 GMT -5 curbsideprophet said:

I don't think I have ever slid the diaper underneath first. Seems you risk getting that diaper dirty if the old one is poopy.

We use cloth so there is always a prefold underneath though.

For DS we did do open, close, open more than with DD.

This was my same exact thought! And I thought it might be unique to us cloth diaperers No way would I risk dirtying a CD in 2 seconds. I'd rather them pee on the changing table lol. 

[miamigirl]

I don't put the new diaper underneath, just remove the old one, wipe really quickly and slide in the new one in. No issues.

[aspentosh]

I dealt with naked butt. Never really an issue.

[starburst]

New diaper under, though I didn't discover this method until DS was about a month old.

[chickadee77]

I tried putting a new diaper a few times, but am clearly doing something wrong - the tabs on the dirty dkaper would stick to the new one, and then I couldn't pull them apart and just had a yuck wad of diapers. Much easier (for me) to just have the new one ready, open the old, clean bottom, wrap up wipes in diaper, then put on fresh.

Last night we tried a standing diaper change. Lol forever.

I think I'm diaper-challenged.