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Changing Baby’s Diaper: What Surface to Use?

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Jack Burns

When it comes to changing your baby’s diaper, you must know which surfaces are good to use. Indeed, you can change your baby’s or toddler’s diaper on several different surfaces, but you must choose the right surface if you’re to be successful with keeping the baby clean and healthy. Luckily, choosing the right diaper changing surface can help you manage the baby changing process and ensure your baby remains healthy (and, hopefully, doesn’t end up misfiring at you all too often either – diaper changing can be a messy business, but one that’s got to be done!)

Changing on the Floor

Changing your baby on the floor is one of the easiest ways to change them; however, there are two obvious drawbacks to changing your baby directly on the floor – for one thing, your floor may not be comfortable for your baby to lie on, and there’s also the major risk of the floor getting dirtied while changing! Of course, if you’re changing on an easily cleanable surface such as wood, this is less of an issue – but for soft surfaces such as carpets, it’s certainly a big risk!

Changing on a Mat

If you want a safer way to clean on the floor, then putting down a blanket or a mat can be a good way of protecting both your baby’s sensitive skin and the surface on which you’re changing your baby, too! Changing mats are easy to take around with you and are a better solution, it’s generally agreed, than changing your baby directly on the floor. If you don’t have a changing mat, an old towel can also do a good job with this.

Changing on a Table

A final option for your baby is to change them on a table. Changing tables make it easier for you to safely and easily change your baby, with the baby being at a more easily accessible height for you to change safely. It’s also worth noting that a changing table protects the surroundings from any stray soiling, too, which is definitely a benefit! The only drawback of a changing table, though, is that it needs somewhere to store it when the table isn’t in use, and with your baby being easily capable of filling 8-10 diapers a day, it needs to be accessible as well.

Whatever the changing solution you decide on, we here at Diapertainment think it’s important that you find an option that works well for you!

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