# How did you learn to change a baby?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 6, 2008, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-learn-to-change-a-baby/432542 "2008-01-06T23:10:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2020, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-learn-to-change-a-baby/432542/81 "2020-03-03T22:35:29Z")

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My undefeated streak of never having to change (or even hold) a baby is still going strong at 43 years! Never having to change a diaper is one of my life goals.

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**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2020, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-learn-to-change-a-baby/432542/82 "2020-03-03T23:32:30Z")

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> [@MissGypsy](#):
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> Applying diaper rash cream with a wipe is easier, smoother, and more sanitary than using your bare hand. (Doc told me this, and he was right.)

OMG! How did no one else ever tell me this! Thank you!

I learned to change a baby at a “so you’re going to be a parent” basics class in front of like 50 people when they asked if anyone who’d never changed a baby would come up and help for the demonstration.

They handed me a diaper and a newborn-sized doll with a diaper on it and said “The baby needs a change” and I fumbled through it. I tried to put the diaper on backwards at first but other than that did fine.

It’s certainly easier to start with a newborn. They don’t go anywhere. Changing an 18-month-old’s diaper, especially when she wants to be doing something else like my daughter did this morning, is a much greater challenge and it helps to have an extra hand or six.

I like this dad with twins: [Dad vs. twins - GIF on Imgur](https://imgur.com/gallery/ctbspU9)

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