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@winniebee: Yeah right after I posted that I went to read the reviews on Amazon which basically says it is useless. Ha I just thought they were cute when I'd see them at baby showers. What about a washcloth?

When I was babysitting my nephew, after the first sprinkling (he managed to get his own head and the wall behind him!) I would put a wipe over the front while I wiped the back. By the time it came to wipe around the front, he would have already peed if he was going to. Kind of wasteful, I guess, so probably a burp cloth or something would be better.

Hahahahahaha! Changing DS is such a different experience from what I went through with DD; I had accidents multiple times a day for the first few weeks of DS's life! I think diapering/toileting a boy is the most challenging part, so far. (Granted, I'm only a couple months in).

What I do now is open up his diaper and then loosely recover him with it for a minute or two. The cool air hits, but if he starts to pee, he's still covered and I don't get sprayed. Doing that has cut down on the number of accidents by quite a bit.

This was a huge problem for us in the beginning. Those ridiculous peepee teepees were obviously invented by someone who never dealt with a squirmy baby boy.

This is the ONLY way to do it: every time you're going to change him, you have to get him to pee first. So open the diaper (but keep it in place), open the front, blow on his weewee, and when you see the fountain starting, quickly close the diaper again and let the diaper soak up the pee. Then you can go ahead and freely change him.

Sometimes we'd swipe a cold wipe across his weewee and that would start the fountain. And sometimes we wouldn't have to do anything, just open the diaper and he'd start.

After that stopped working I just kept another diaper on hand, folded outwards, and kept it over his crotch area as much as possible.

I open his diaper exposing him to the air for a few seconds and then I cover him back up to see if he pees. Then I put a wipe on it while I use another one to wipe him down. I haven't had too many issues, unless he's peeing as I open his diaper the first time...that's always fun lol

We had that problem for the first month, after that no real problems unless I leave the diaper off for too long- he shot my laptop keyboard once...

He also peed through multiple outfits a day for the first month or so, but that stopped soon too, now it is just occasional.

@mrs. wagon: oh my. I'm so glad we're having a girl so I don't have to deal with this! That's a great solution, though.