Changing baby at night

[movingmelly]

Do we really need to change newborns all through the night?
My mum didn't change our nappies at night at all..
can't there be some sort of compromise?
Has anyone worked out a good approach to this?

Depends if the nappy is dirty or just wet. If it's dirty it needs to be changed

I'd change baby with every bottle feed. Or at least check to see if they had a wet nappy. I wouldn't wanna sleep in a damp nappy all night.

Would you want to spend hours in a wet or dirty nappy? If the baby wakes for a feed or similar, you change their bum at the same time. I don't understand why anyone wouldn't. However, if the baby is sleeping through then I wouldn't specifically wake myself up with an alarm every couple hours to check

Both my babies pooed every time they were fed so they needed to be changed with every feed. I used to try and change their nappy first and then feed them so I didn't wake them up again but that did mean I sometimes ended up changing them twice!

I changed during every feed. Once they started sleeping through I only changed them when their nappies were dirty or leaked.

It depends how much they poo; mine needed it because they’d poo but when they stopped I didn’t, I just used the size up in nappies.

I only ever changed nappies in the night if they’d done a poo - why wake them more than you need too! Nappies are designed to have 12 hours of dryness

Change if it's a poo, leave if wet. However I am on DC3 and have low standards.

You only need change a disposible nappy if there is poo.

Disposable nappies soak up wetness so there is no moisture next to the skin. Good nappies are made to soak up 12h of wee.

If you are using cloth nappies then you may need to change in the night because of wetness next to the skin.

@Sunshinegirl82

Both my babies pooed every time they were fed so they needed to be changed with every feed. I used to try and change their nappy first and then feed them so I didn't wake them up again but that did mean I sometimes ended up changing them twice!

I remember doing this too, changing before feed so it doesn’t wake them up

DS used to feed a million times a night and poo at every feed so I did a lot of changes. I remember getting furious with the Your Baby Week By Week book which blithely said something like ‘good news! As your baby won’t be pooing in the night any more you’ll get lots more rest’. Mine did not get that memo.

If it’s just wet then leave it (assuming baby is happy and not getting rashes etc).

@starsinyourpies

Change if it's a poo, leave if wet. However I am on DC3 and have low standards.

This made me laugh. Funny how we lower our standards with each DC 😂

I used to change them at every feed but once they started sleeping through I stopped. I'm not waking a sleeping baby to change a nappy.

I change nappy at 1030pm feed. Then only change at night if poo or wet through or if crying. Sleep is more important imo!