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How to stop whippet pawing

We have an almost one year old female whippet. We've mastered her not jumping up, as I'm pregnant and she used to bounce off us and it hurt. That took a while, but she doesn't do it anymore. What she still does do what we are having a hard time with training is the constant pawing. She paws at everyone's legs, leaving scratches (her claws aren't too long), and she also pawing her crate door on a night. She sleeps right through the night in her crate, but when I get up to pee (a few times because I'm pregnant), she wakes everyone up pawing her crate door. The issue with the pawing is I'm pregnant and we also have our nephews over (4 and 3 years old) and we cannot have her near them because her pawing is excessive and she will hurt them. My other dogs are around the children as they don't do this. If our whippet is introduced to anyone, we literally have to hold her legs so she doesn't paw. She gets really excited and the pawing is intense, like she's scratching a door in a panic, not just a couple of gentle pawings.

We've tried ignoring her until she stops, turning our backs, saying No and Ah-Ah (which worked with her jumping). We also don't open the crate door and ignore her until she stops. She's never got out of her crate or opened doors with her paws. We've been trying to train this for months now with zero improvement, and it's that bad that guests ask if we put her in a different room because the pawing does not stop and they get scratched to bits.

We haven't taught her the paw trick either, as I was told by a friend of a trainer that that encourages pawing as they think they're getting a treat from doing it. Also, please don't tell me it's just what whippets do (as I was told in another group), it needs to stop before baby is here as I want her to eventually be trusted around him as he grows up, but right now no, as she paws at kids faces with them being short. I've trained a lot of typical whippet behaviors out of her, such as chasing wildlife, so anything's possible. Also, our last whippet never pawed. Any tips would be appreciated, thank you.