It wasn't funny a bit. I'd always believed I could do anything without a hoot until I tried to change my son's diaper. I'd watched my wife do it many times, though I never paid much attention. I really fumbled. My wife went to take an exam, my nanny didn't show up that day then, I was saddled with the responsibility of babysitting our son. The guy pooped and was restless. I knew I had to clean him and change the diaper or there would be no peace. Removing the soiled diaper caused an injury to my carpet, wiping his bombom was a herculean task, while replacing the soiled one was calamitous. The 5months old guy knew that everything was wrong but couldn't say it. I did it at last, but was later told by my wife that I put the back in front. HAVE YOU TRIED IT?

hahahahhahahahahhaaha
you really got me laffing there
it served you right
next time pay attention
coz you would have to bath him too. lol

tessybaby:

hahahahhahahahahhaaha
you really got me laffing there
it served you right
next time pay attention
coz you would have to bath him too. lol

I now pay attention to everything but I pray it won't come to bathing him. I'd simply break him.

laooooo this is funny. Pele, its cos u didn't start early enough. My husband has been changing our baby since she was 2 weeks.

parisienne:

laooooo this is funny. Pele, its cos u didn't start early enough. My husband has been changing our baby since she was 2 WEEKS.

Not that easyoooo. Maybe your hubby trained as a nanny or nurse before he married you.

Hahahaha no oh! He watched me do it n by that age they don't kick so it was easy 4 him to get the hang of it, I'm sure ur son was kicking n wriggling about. Wish u had filmed urself n uploaded to youtube.

Hilarious. Hope you at least looked at your wife with wonder eyes afterwards!

^^^ sweet! Your wife is lucky. Not many men would have that level of understanding. Kudos

My husband has never tried any of the above and i am secretly relieved though i sometimes heckle him about it. The one time he tried to change my LO's diapers, he was fiddling with the thingy so my baby wiggled away and went and hugged him. Then left him a little present on his pair of jeans. I have never laughed so hard in my life. You should have seen his face. Needless to say, he did not finish that task.

I keep teasinh him that he is not patient enough. What he knows how to do best is to sing him to sleep.

I just did a change an hour ago; not just diaper change but total nightcap change for my baby girl including night powder etc.

Its part of daily life here in diaspora where you cant afford to hire a nanny.
Beside you and your wife will raise the family together, otherwise half of your income will go for paying minders(Baby sitters).
Also single parent (Man/Woman) does it daily. But its unusual in Nigeria. What is normal in one environment its abnormal in another.

yup, I have a 13 mos old child & I have gotten quite good at diaper duty  My brother in-law visited us from nigeria & my wife asked him if he had ever changed his child's diaper & he had the look of a deer caught in a head-light (clueless) lol

Havent done it before but as an expectant father, I am looking forward to it.

That is the easiest way to get to bond with the little fellas, i got 2 (10month and a 2yr old) of them and i have being minding them since birth-diaper changing, bathing, singing (i'm now a barney fan - know all their songs), rocking feeding etc. Its the only way my wife can go out and leave us and find her sanity. Since i do not subscribe to minders i do the minding myself with my wife, funny enough we live in Lagos. Trust me its fun, and you know the fun part we we go out and the little one poops in her diaper they run to me and not their mum!

That's nothing, the only thing I can't do is to breast feed & we all know the reason.

infact it is something i like doing i bath for my son and daughter every morning thats no big deal all men should learn to do same in case of emergency

Diaper change, One can never get used to the smelly green shit or texture. The joy of being a parent,

I'd love to try but but don't got no kid

Changing baby diapers is no big deal to me as I do this almost everyday, I'll also do the school run starting from 7am Mon-Fri before I go to office.

Its no big deal at all. @poster you have to learn to do it, no dey leave everything for ya wife o!

An expectant father here and really want to join the bandwagon.

It's not a big deal. Our marriage was 6 last December and we have two boys already. My wife used to work on Island but my office is closer to the house. So I always come back before her. So I wil have to relieve the nanny by 7:30 so I always take over. So you wouldn't doubt that between those period till she's back around 10/11 dat they won't mess up. So I don't have a choice other than to change for them. As a matter of fact I think am even better than her in taking care of kids.

@poster: lol! see how 5months old child dey terrorize you lol! I feel you my bro but its not a big deal at all. I started doing all that from when my son was 2 days old including giving him a bath. Now he's 16months old and once you see him trying to pull the diaper off his waste or bring you a new diaper then you know that yawa don gazz lol.

I do it all the time, part of the "blessings" of being a GOOD DAD/FATHER especially in the US  

I did mine the other way round. It was discovered at the Day care.

No big deal. I just changed it few minutes ago and the little man is sleeping peacefully. The only thing I don't know how to do, as a poster rightly pointed out, is to br€ast feed him.

Woohoo!!! big ups to the daddys that change their babies 'draws'

Not a big deal and certainly not an Herculean task. It's just changing a diaper.

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