4 Effective Pointers When Changing Your Baby’s Diapers

In this day and age, a lot of things have changed from how they used to be, which can be new and exciting for most. But the art of changing diapers remains the same, although it gets easier with the ever improving diaper designs.

For Girls

You should never wipe from the rectum frontward, as it brings fecal bacteria into the urethra and vaginal region. Instead, wipe front-to-back (just as girls and women do after using the toilet to avoid bladder infections). Also, part the labia and clean lightly to remove all material. Do not rub too hard.

For Boys

Be prepared to get squirted (and that he will wet his own clothes and perhaps even spray himself in the face) occasionally. What the heck, prepare for it every time, then be satisfied when the loaded pistol doesn’t go off. When you get better at diapering, you’ll be able to have a wad of toilet tissue paper or a fresh diaper over his penis while washing/drying with the other hand.

It’s only water, it’s not very much actually, and it’s sterile when it first comes out, so laugh about it! Some parents rather push the penis down as they put on a new diaper. Otherwise, boys pee up and it may go out the top of the diaper, which regularly gaps at his waist (or what would be his waist, if he wasn’t so chubby and actually could bend in the center and sit up). Also, pointing the penis down while awaiting the umbilical cord to fall off is one more stage to guarantee that the cord remains dry.

Make sure to clean under the scrotum, where fecal substance may be concealed. If your baby boy has not been circumcised, the foreskin does not yet retract. Don’t try to make it do so – just clean it with the cotton pad.

If the baby has just been circumcised, you have maybe received instruction in circumcision care. Some procedures include a plastic ring that gets no special care, or a dab of petroleum jelly or antibiotic cream. Other procedures require a gauze pad that ought to be removed at each diaper change. Dab at the circumcision with a sterile, wet cotton ball. You may have been instructed to smear petroleum jelly to the wound or to a new gauze pad, then re-wrap the wound. (Look for discharge or smell and call the physician if it appears to be infected.)

4 Diaper Changing Tips:

1. Traditional cloth diapers need pins (or diaper covers). Keep them fixed in a bar of soap and they’ll slide through the cloth more easily.

2. Put two fingers of your left hand (if you’re right-handed) between the diaper and the baby so if the pin sticks somebody, it’s you.

3. Beware of the possibility of pins unpinning and sticking your baby. Be sure you’re not using a “kite” fold that has a pin in the middle over the genital section or stomach, which could be injured by a loose pin. (This should not occur, however, if you are using diaper pins – not safety pins – that have a safety latch.)

4. If the cloth diapers you bought or were given are not pre-folded, but instead are the large rectangles type, you have a few options for how to fold them of your picking.

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