should wake your baby up to change him your baby if you hear him poo?

[Ceelo]

or should you let him sleep...please understand my baby is only 6 days old so i don't know a lot.

I would let him sleep

I would let him sleep as chances are he will be awake very soon anyway.

It is a dilemma but if I remember correctly they don't poo in their sleep for very long.

Yup, I'd let him sleep too - he'll wake up eventually to feed and you can change him then.
Unless there's a problem with nappy rash? Then maybe I'd very very gently try to change him while keeping him asleep

Let him sleep, but change him as soon as he wakes.

I wasn't just stating the obvious, its just sometimes the baby brain makes you forget, and you walk them, screaming, round the house for an hour, whispering shuush in their ear.

They remember 'oh bloody hell he poo'ed an hour ago'

I used to do stuff like that a lot.

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i always opt for letting the baby sleep, i never ake for feeds or changes.... they'll do that themselves when they need to.

i tend to vaseline a very young babies bum lightly to protect it anyway so i'd never be too worried about a bit of ewborn poo.

wherethewildthingswere - me too . I've done that today with DC3.

Ceelo I always let sleeping babies lie - if they are uncomfortable they tend to let you know. Its a steep learning curve (well, it was for me), it's only when you get to a year old and you are weaning, changing nappies and MNetting simultaneously that you realise how far you have come in so little time! Congratulations btw

lol WTWTA... so glad to know i'm not the only one who did that alot!

I would probably change, but mine got awful nappy rash in the early days

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Never wake a sleeping baby !

Ds never suffered from nappy rash but I wouldn't have smelt a nappy anyway as he was bf and the poos didn't seem to smell. He never bothered about a pooy nappy - still doesn't so I'd have left him until he woke up.

Nah, let him sleep. Unless it's for hours (ha, you wish!!! ) or he has a sore bum.