Cloth nappy - night time question

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Hi, my baby is 3 weeks old. I want to start her on cloth nappies. She poos 2-3 times at night. The night time (super absorbent) nappies are supposed to last for many hours & have heard many parents don’t change nappy at night

But what about when baby poos? Can I still leave the nappy for the night or need to change when baby poos?

Thanks

Yes you need to change them until they stop poos at night. Night nappies last the night for wee, and it’s okay to leave baby in a wet nappy because urine is sterile, but if it’s dirty you should change as soon as possible.
Once they’re a few months old they should stop night poos as much and you can go longer between changes.

Need to change at every poo definitely. We didn’t start using designated cloth ‘night nappies’ until maybe about 3 months…and even then he was still pooing at least once, so we needed enough for 2 per night. At 3 weeks we just used boosted day nappies as they were being changed every 4 hours anyway and he didn’t have a set ‘bedtime’ as such. I wouldn’t bother going for very absorbent night nappies until you are regularly only getting one poo (or none) per night.

Agree with above that I wouldn't bother with proper nighttime cloth nappies yet. We used them but not till dc was reliably not pooing in the night.

I'd stick to easy cloth ones, like pocket nappies or AIOs or whatever it is you use in the day, with a booster or two.