4 month old - how often would you change their nappy?

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If they hadn’t done a poo, obviously.

Every 2.5 hours.

I've covered our entire floor in nappies so DD2 can wander about in the nude and just pee and poop where she likes. Can't believe you awful people confining a baby to a nappy! So cruel.

So what do u do. Change every 15min? You would live on a changing mat then!

@Icycloud may be using washable nappies. So doesn't 'cost' individually.
Must admit I used to always change just before going out even if it's only been on half an hour so as to save having to change when out (unless a poo)

@Icycloud go on tell us how often do u change urs as u are frowning upon everyone elses schedule.

Well, it depends. It's been a few years but I probably changed DC1 too often. Less often with DC2. DC3 (unless in the case of a poo) got changed when the nappy began to sag down their legs. Never made a button of difference. In fact DC3 had the least nappy rash (if at all, can't quite remember!!)

Quit with the "disgusting". The fact is you cannot change a baby's nappy every single time it pees!!!

@Ariela yes ofcourse when going out I would change too even if changed less than an hr ago. But when at home its every 3hrs unless it seems very full or if done a poo then immediately change

@Clefable are you and @Icycloud from the same league?? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

During the day about every 3 hours if no poop though she generally pooped a lot but by 4 months she was sleeping 10hrs a night and obviously didn't change in her sleep

@Treesinmygarden good to hear someone else’s 2nd had the balance, and the DC either side had very different parenting! 😂

I changed when he woke generally or after a feed, I don't really think I thought about times, as soon as a poo was done and then first thing in the morning and quite often just before going down for a sleep/just after the feed after he woke I think. I couldn't have done it before the feed or he'd have tried to murder me with his podgy fingers...

I didn't wake up every hour in the night to change him or wake him up mid nap in case a wee had occurred, I don't think having wee in an absorbent nappy while sleeping is awful and they aren't awake that long at that age!

When older and on one nap then the wees were a lot bigger and you got 'signs' they had happened so quite often just changed straight after the wee which I think helps lead towards the potty training path that we don't want wee in clothes/on skin, but that's way off

The longest I leave my 9 week old's nappy is 3 hours during the day, obviously change more if it's looking wet. She sleeps through the night though and don't wake her to change it, I figure if it was uncomfortable she'd wake up. I work in a nursery and we change the babies every 3 hours so have always used that as a guide

Presumably @Icycloud is stopping every 15 minutes when out and about to change nappies too. On car journeys as well.

@Icycloud will think twice before commenting now

Whatever makes you feel better about letting your children sit in pissy nappies for 3 hours

I asked my husband about it and he said when we had newborns we changed every 2 hours unless they'd done a poop.
Now it's every 3 hours.

At that age I’d change the nappy after every feed. I didn’t always do it in the night if it was just a quick comfort feed back to sleep.

Older it was when they got up, after each meal, and after bath/before bed - and after a poo, obvs.

Roughly 3 or 4hrly. But like someone else said, I always change before going out anywhere (well, except visiting close family) unless I've changed it within the past half hour. As I hate changing nappies in public changing so try to limit that as much as possible.

Always at every feed which is every 3 hours unless he looks full before that. 12 hours overnight since he doesn't wake.

I agree, at that age I changed it when the colour changing strips changed colour, or when it started to get puffy with the bigger sizes as one of mine was on size 3 at 4 months (at least every hour at that age). I changed my cloth nappies whenever they were wet too. Never once had nappy rash. Given that nappy rash is babies being left in dirty nappies, I think I saved the baby a lot of discomfort. It's just about paying basic attention to the needs of the baby, surely?

Oh but overnight I would check at the night feeds and change if needed. I suppose I did nappy change on demand to go with breastfeeding on demand. 🤣

I suspect she straps her dc onto a potty 😵‍💫

To add, nursery change him every 3 hours too unless it's a poo.

@Icycloud so guessing from your judgement you change yours every hour at least? So that's 24 nappies a day? Over 8,000 a year? You are almost single-handedly responsible for the problems we have with waste across the world. You are basically murdering dolphins on a daily basis.

What I just wrote above is as batshit as you sound.

I used cloth nappies and would change every couple of hours. Would occasionally use disposables like when we were on holiday or staying with friends. I used to just feel the nappy to see how wet it felt. No nappy rash or complaints here.