How long for a dirty nappy?
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Topic: How long for a dirty nappy?
Posted By: amme_eilyk
Subject: How long for a dirty nappy?
Date Posted: 20 January 2011 at 7:08pm
| How long would you say is ok to leave a baby in a dirty nappy. I'm not talking on a regular basis, but in the past week just after going to sleep our baby has dirtied her nappy and changing her has woken her up and then she has stayed up for about 4 hours and is getting really overtired. Is it ok to leave it until the next feed or better to wake her up and risk it. |
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Posted By: Chickoin
Date Posted: 20 January 2011 at 7:16pm
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Personally I would change her ASAP, an over tired baby is better than a nasty red nappy rash. -------------   
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Posted By: Nothing
Date Posted: 20 January 2011 at 7:17pm
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My girl wont sleep with a dirty nappy, she quite often does a poo on waking or just before sleep. I would personally listen out for when she is in bed to see if she poo's just before she goes to sleep (most newborn poo you can hear it coming!)- if so then I would get her up and change her quickly before putting her back down. If she does it in her sleep then I dunno, I would have thought she would have done it while awake? ------------- 
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Posted By: kebakat
Date Posted: 20 January 2011 at 7:23pm
| If alex does that I change him while his arms are still wrapped up, it stops him from fully waking up. And I use a warm flannel as opposed to wipes so that hes not getting something cold on his butt cause that would wake them up more too |
Posted By: _Deb_
Date Posted: 20 January 2011 at 7:57pm
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I never leave dirty nappies on. So i would change her straight away. ------------- 
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Posted By: Raspberryjam
Date Posted: 20 January 2011 at 10:06pm
agree once you have got the nappy change thing down pact its easy to do it while they are asleep just takes a bit of practice ------------- http://lilypie.com] 
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Chickoin wrote:Posted By: caliandjack
Date Posted: 21 January 2011 at 8:16am
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Change a pooey nappy as soon as I can, over night I only change DD if it is a pooey one, I put a huggies nappy on her overnight and only change her if its pooey, I don't normally check her nappy in the night simply feed her and pop her back to bed. ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">   [/url] Angel June 2012 |
Posted By: High9
Date Posted: 21 January 2011 at 11:41am
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I always changed a dirty nappy asap, overnight, only if I could smell it during a feed but often in the early days my DD was so tired during feeds I'd have to change her mid feed and pop her back on to finish the feed. I stopped changing her during the night about 2mo because she was waking right up and not going back to sleep for hours like your wee one but if it was poos then I did change it mainly because she leaked a lot, but DD has never had nappy rash, no idea why and she has sat in a dirty nappy for a while on a few occasions, not because I am lazy but simply because I haven't realised. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: ElfsMum
Date Posted: 21 January 2011 at 1:26pm
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while ideally changing ASAP is the best idea..i get what you mean.. cause on occasion it comes down to waking them and having them take forever to sleep again and leaving the nappy on!:) I would do it occasionally but generally change asap. ------------- Mum to two amazing boys! |
Posted By: caliandjack
Date Posted: 21 January 2011 at 1:35pm
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I have learnt with practice to change a nappy without waking DD, otherwise I simply wait till her next feed during the day that's no longer than a couple of hours and at night I'm only going to notice when I feed her as I'm asleep the rest of the time. ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow"> [/url] Angel June 2012 |
Posted By: ElfsMum
Date Posted: 21 January 2011 at 1:36pm
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i also think there are some children(like both of mine) who would never have their nappy changed in their sleep thy always woke instead of dream feeds too:) ------------- Mum to two amazing boys! |
Posted By: Jaune
Date Posted: 21 January 2011 at 9:19pm
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I always change a dirty nappy ASAP and just deal with having to put him back to sleep if he wakes up. DS doesn't really like sitting/sleeping in one anyway so would potentially wake up or not go to sleep if I just left it.
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Posted By: NovemberMum
Date Posted: 22 January 2011 at 12:05am
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as soon as I know it is dirty I will change it. with my son he simply wont settle if he has a dirty nappy actually if he wkes in th enight I will change his nappy anyway even if it just wet otherwisehe will wake 30 minutes later and not cutie cutie at 3am :) ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: T_Rex
Date Posted: 22 January 2011 at 7:54am
Heh, not all babies can be changed in their sleep! Especially refluxy ones 
But I'd change it as quietly and gently and possible, and if she woke right up and was cranky then I'd feed her to sleep if a bit of rocking didn't fix it. I changed at every feed until about 2 months anyway, and she often went during the feed. ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Raspberryjam
Date Posted: 22 January 2011 at 10:41pm
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guess Im a lucky one then, but you dont know til you try aye ------------- http://lilypie.com]
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