https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Wed, 22 Apr 2026 07:09:21 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-lo-let-you-clip-their-fingernailstoenails/page/2#post-1654768 Fri, 23 May 2014 10:22:51 +0000 buffalove 1654768@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>This is probably bad, but I started letting him play with the nail clipper while on the changing table. After a couple weeks, he seemed to figure out that it wasn't actually a torture device and started letting me cut his nails after bath. I think he finally got it that it wasnt going to hurt him. I used to pretty much restrain him on the changing table, and his nails need to be cut like once a week! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-lo-let-you-clip-their-fingernailstoenails/page/2#post-1654723 Fri, 23 May 2014 10:09:47 +0000 Honeygold89 1654723@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I do it while he sleep but he'd only 14 weeks </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-lo-let-you-clip-their-fingernailstoenails/page/2#post-1654437 Fri, 23 May 2014 08:46:59 +0000 blackbird 1654437@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@adira, yup! She knows when that grip gets tight, it's game over </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-lo-let-you-clip-their-fingernailstoenails/page/2#post-1654286 Fri, 23 May 2014 07:49:11 +0000 Adira 1654286@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@blackbird: I think it's the begin restrained that Xander really hates. He probably associates it with getting shots, haha. But yes, I do the same thing! I have to pin him down and I hold his hand and fingers so firmly!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-lo-let-you-clip-their-fingernailstoenails/page/2#post-1654133 Fri, 23 May 2014 05:52:53 +0000 lamariniere 1654133@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Both of mine handle it ok. The trick I've found is to have them sit in my lap. I find it's much easier and faster to clip their nails if their hands/feet are oriented the way my own hands/feet would be if I were cutting my own nails. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-lo-let-you-clip-their-fingernailstoenails/page/2#post-1653978 Thu, 22 May 2014 23:57:42 +0000 Boogs 1653978@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My DH does it since I don't like to and LO used to hate it, now he will ask to have it done and is fascinated when we do it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-lo-let-you-clip-their-fingernailstoenails#post-1653976 Thu, 22 May 2014 23:44:11 +0000 ALV91711 1653976@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>He hates it and the toes are definitely a two person job. </p> <p>Maybe next time I'll try letting him watch a cartoon while I do it. </p> <p>I usually put it off as long as possible since I hate the battle. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-lo-let-you-clip-their-fingernailstoenails#post-1653965 Thu, 22 May 2014 23:22:18 +0000 DillonLion 1653965@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>C HATES it </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-lo-let-you-clip-their-fingernailstoenails#post-1653905 Thu, 22 May 2014 22:26:18 +0000 yin 1653905@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My 3 year old hates it, but I can't blame him. He has two fingers that are affected by his eczema, and it hurts to cut the fingernail. The baby tolerates and doesn't mind. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-lo-let-you-clip-their-fingernailstoenails#post-1653874 Thu, 22 May 2014 22:10:21 +0000 Sofiel 1653874@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My 5 yr old is fine with me cutting them but DS HATES it. The boy never stops squirming when I hold his hands still, even when he's sleeping, lol </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-lo-let-you-clip-their-fingernailstoenails#post-1652926 Thu, 22 May 2014 18:37:39 +0000 prettylizy 1652926@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Dd1 is 2 and she is a nightmare, DD2 is 2 months and doesn't care </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-lo-let-you-clip-their-fingernailstoenails#post-1652897 Thu, 22 May 2014 18:29:50 +0000 MrsMccarthy 1652897@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Not really. I usually only get one or two fingers done at a time. I can do it while he naps though. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-lo-let-you-clip-their-fingernailstoenails#post-1652861 Thu, 22 May 2014 18:16:28 +0000 allison 1652861@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Two words: Dinosaur Train! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-lo-let-you-clip-their-fingernailstoenails#post-1652839 Thu, 22 May 2014 18:09:43 +0000 lady grey 1652839@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My LO (almost 12 months) does not like it when I hold his hands till to cut his nails ( I use nail scissors) but he doesn't scream or cry. I usually do it right before or after nap while he is still a little drowsy. Like @Pumuckl, singing helps to distract. But I'm sure it will get harder as he gets a bit older!<br /> I do swear by the nail scissors, they are way easier then clippers and I don't feel like I'm about to cut this skin at any moment. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-lo-let-you-clip-their-fingernailstoenails#post-1652771 Thu, 22 May 2014 17:43:28 +0000 Mrs. Sunshine 1652771@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>She is SO good! I was just thinking this earlier. She's 8 months &amp; does try to grab the Clippers with her other hand but is usually pretty sacked into Watchung me cut them. Weirdly, I've never needed to cut her toenails... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-lo-let-you-clip-their-fingernailstoenails#post-1652769 Thu, 22 May 2014 17:42:52 +0000 SleepyMonkey 1652769@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>she'll usually just sit in my lap and let me cut them. sometimes she'll try to pull her hand away, but then i tell her "i have just a few more and then you're all done!" and she'll let me do it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-lo-let-you-clip-their-fingernailstoenails#post-1652744 Thu, 22 May 2014 17:25:29 +0000 Corduroy 1652744@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>The daycare lady does LO's fingernails. She swears LO's nails are the easiest to clip but I cannot get more than 2 nails done at a time. ::Hangs head in shame:: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-lo-let-you-clip-their-fingernailstoenails#post-1652677 Thu, 22 May 2014 16:33:28 +0000 JessKas 1652677@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It's no problem...as long as she's dead asleep. There's no way I'm getting a hold of her fast moving little hands otherwise. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-lo-let-you-clip-their-fingernailstoenails#post-1652649 Thu, 22 May 2014 16:10:03 +0000 Dandelion 1652649@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I do it while nursing M. D is good about holding still too. He knows he just has to sit and deal with it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-lo-let-you-clip-their-fingernailstoenails#post-1652648 Thu, 22 May 2014 16:09:59 +0000 blackbird 1652648@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Ours freaks out, too. I did her toes upside down, mission impossible style while she slept in the crib with her feet hanging out. If we want to do her fingers, we have to pretty much hold her very still and ti takes two people and she SCREAMS. I have her body and pinch her fingers with my fingers so she CANNOT move. She does not like being restrained that firmly. But you do what you gotta do she draws blood, so it's gotta happen! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-lo-let-you-clip-their-fingernailstoenails#post-1652626 Thu, 22 May 2014 15:59:00 +0000 shinymama 1652626@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>He doesn't care...if anything he wants to "help" and tries to take the nail clippers. Now my oldest? Up until he started cutting his own nails {he's 12} he would scream bloody murder! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-lo-let-you-clip-their-fingernailstoenails#post-1652610 Thu, 22 May 2014 15:51:11 +0000 ustechie 1652610@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I can only cut his when he's sleeping. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-lo-let-you-clip-their-fingernailstoenails#post-1652426 Thu, 22 May 2014 14:46:17 +0000 avivoca 1652426@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>She fights it a bit, but more and more these days she's grabbing at the clippers and trying to chew on them. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-lo-let-you-clip-their-fingernailstoenails#post-1652410 Thu, 22 May 2014 14:36:27 +0000 mrs. tictactoe 1652410@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Liam is 2 and the same way. He acts like I'm trying to kill him. I hate it! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-lo-let-you-clip-their-fingernailstoenails#post-1652405 Thu, 22 May 2014 14:34:05 +0000 GrapeCrush 1652405@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My 2 year old just sits there while I clip his nails. The 9.5 month old...Jesus, you'd think I was killing her. Sometimes it takes a few days to finish clipping her nails. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-lo-let-you-clip-their-fingernailstoenails#post-1652401 Thu, 22 May 2014 14:30:57 +0000 .twist. 1652401@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I try to distract him. Let him watch tv or give him something to play with that he normally would be allowed to play with (baby monitor, my phone, etc). He does ok.. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-lo-let-you-clip-their-fingernailstoenails#post-1652397 Thu, 22 May 2014 14:26:44 +0000 cmomma17 1652397@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Adira: I think it helps when it's a routine, expected thing! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-lo-let-you-clip-their-fingernailstoenails#post-1652345 Thu, 22 May 2014 14:12:30 +0000 LuLu Mom 1652345@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I never know which one I'm going to get, usually I can pretend to clip mine and then do her's, but other days it's a FIGHT </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-lo-let-you-clip-their-fingernailstoenails#post-1652258 Thu, 22 May 2014 13:52:31 +0000 aegie 1652258@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>my LO has never liked it until we appealed to her vanity. around 16 months we introduced the concept of "pretty". Let's tie your hair so it will be pretty! let's wear these shoes because they're so pretty. Let's clip your nails so they will be pretty. Now she loves it. will let me clip all 10 fingernails and 10 toenails to make her "pretty". </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/does-your-lo-let-you-clip-their-fingernailstoenails#post-1652255 Thu, 22 May 2014 13:52:12 +0000 Adira 1652255@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@cmomma17: Maybe I just need to do it more often so he's more used to it! </p>