...to leave sleeping baby in a dirty nappy?

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Said baby is a week old and EBF so the dirty nappies are those watery ones that soak in anyway.

She's been asleep nearly 3 hours so should wake up in a bit anyway.

Aibu to just leave her if she's sleeping soundly?

no, she will get sore, is it a good time for you to wake her and feed her?

Don't leave her....if you change her gently she will stay asleep or go back to sleep after the change.

Hold the baby wipe in your hand for a minute to warm it up before you use it on the baby, less likely to wake her.

You should change her, or she may get a nasty nappy rash.

You may even be able to change her without waking her.

Yabu....change it.

I'd change her. Once nappy rash takes hold its very difficult to get rid of so it's worth changing now to try and avoid it.

At a week old 3 hours sleep for an ebf baby is quite a lot so she's probably due a feed about now anyway.

Well I am going to dissent and say don't fret. She's going to wake up soon anyway and if you are using a modern disposable nappy they are very good at keeping the moisture away from skin. If it wasn't the soiled nappy would have woken her.

I used to change newborn son till I realised that it was only that I was awake. If I'd not woken up we'd have both slept through.

The only time he got nappy rash was when he was about to cut a tooth. Not sure why. I'd change him and he'd be sore and then the next day there'd be a little tooth.

Obviously all babies are different. So you should see what works for you. But I'd go with letting them sleep that extra 15 mins or half hour.

Well she's woken up so has taken the decision out of my hands :)

It HAD all soaked in but I wouldn't have left her I don't think.
Mad isnt it, I now have 2 under 2 but have already forgotten the newborn stage with the first one!

I'm firmly in the never wake a sleeping baby camp. That said, I don't think DS would have slept that long at that age.

Yabu. Change the nappy or baby will be sore :-(

I didn't ever wake ds but then he didn't really poo in his sleep much and never slept more than 3 hours anyway.

I'm afraid I would leave her. She won't sleep much longer anyway, and nappies are designed to absorb that kind of poo. I'm a neonatal nurse, I wouldn't wake a sleeping baby! I also have 2 kids, no nappy rash until teething.

I'm afraid I would leave her. She won't sleep much longer anyway, and nappies are designed to absorb that kind of poo. I'm a neonatal nurse, I wouldn't wake a sleeping baby! I also have 2 kids, no nappy rash until teething.

I say never wake a sleeping baby (unless of course they are horribly prone to nappy rash). Modern disposables are amazing, half an hour doesn't usually hurt - and that's about as long as you get with a newborn anyway!

I would have woken ds1 to change him because he had horrible eczema. Ds2 I would certainly have left sleeping got up to an hour before I got twitchy and tried to change him in his sleep.

Glad your baby took the decision out of your hands

Depends on how prone she is to nappy rash, and how difficult to get to sleep.

When I was very sleep deprived from repeatedly waking my newborn up for nappy changes, my midwife recommended I put barrier cream on at night time, and then leave her until she woke up herself. We didn't have any rash, despite some shocking nappies!

If you're awake and aware, change.

I well remember with DS1, he can't have been more than a few weeks old, hearing him farting like a trooper in the night, stank to high heaven so I dutifully got up to change him even though he was still asleep. Of course he promptly woke up, screamed the place down, and of course, he hadn't poo'd! Nappy was slightly wet though and so I went ahead and changed it since that was why I'd woken him up in the first place. No sooner had I removed the old nappy than he promptly poo'd all over the mat, me, himself, his clothes...

After that night, if there was a suspicious sound/smell, I always waited about 15 mins to see if it 'dissipated' first before putting us both through that trauma again!

I wouldn't if it was a wee, but definitely for a poo, however runny.

My midwife told me with my second, who was an expert pooer after just falling asleep, that unless she was sore to leave her. She's never had nappy rash.

Thats ridiculous advice, she will get irritated bum if skin in contact with faeces for a long time

I didn't change my (EBF) babies if they pooed in their sleep. They never got nappy rash but waking and changing them upset them and they'd be difficult to resettle. If they were awake, I'd change. If not, leave her be. She'd cry if she was uncomfortable. I think it's different for formula fed babies as their poo is more nasty on their skin.

Oh god I've got all this to come in a few weeks.

DC2 uses to fill his nappy in his sleep, and wouldn't wake up through the entire bum changing process. You never know, yours might be the same!

I would leave til waking at that juncture in a nap, with our first we changed her at every fart, we soon learned our lesson, if a baby is sleeping let it sleep, they never sleep for long and unless it's a crappy (brand) nappy it will wick away moisture.

Mine never had nappy rash while doing this, although both were ebf so could be something in the formula comments.

I think if they are ebf it's fine to leave them. It's completely different to ff babies poo.

I'm also the dissenting, "never wake a sleeping baby" camp. I remember debating this exact issue at 3am, in my head!

My DC2 poo'd constantly. We would never have slept. She was feeding every 2.5 hours and pooing and being changed as it was.

No nappy rash here, either. Breast milk poos, in my experience, don't cause it.