nighttime diaper changes...

[Ldogg]

... do you do them?

My 3-month-old is a great sleeper (so far--knock on wood!) and wakes only once around 2 or 3am to eat; she goes to bed around 8pm and gets up around 6 or 7am. Previously I was getting up to change her diaper (we cloth diaper) and BF her for that 2 or 3am feeding, but over the past few nights I've gotten lazy and just done some side-lying nursing without changing her diaper.

She's definitely pretty wet by morning, but not usually leaking... and she doesn't seem to mind either way. I'm not asking for trouble by letting her sleep with this wet diaper, am I? No diaper rashes thus far, but I don't want to tempt fate here.

[rhiOrion]

I use a disposable at night and rarely change it. I pretty much only change it if I hear a poop. She's not had any rash problems, so I'm happy with it. I see no need to wake a sleeping baby if the wet diaper isn't bothering her.

[Knitting Mama]

Exactly the same as Rhi here. We CD during the day, disposable at night, so she can go a whole night without needing to be changed.

[Ldogg]

I'm glad to hear this! We usually use prefolds during the day, but I prefer a bulkier all-in-one cloth diaper at night since it tends to hold more and wick MUCH better...

[momto4plus4]

We did cloth even at night with my oldest and never had a problem with diaper rash. I'm still doing disposable at night with ds especially since he still poos during the night. But, my oldest, she only got rashes with disposables, never cloth.

[Nicole730]

We don't change overnight here. I change her when I go to bed and then again at 8 in the morning. So she sleeps from 10pm-8am in one diaper. Sometimes disposables, sometimes cloth. As soon as DS stopped pooping overnight, I stopped changing him too, and he was just in flannel diapers. No complaints, no rash, it's fine.

[cristeen]

I had to change my heavy wetter in the night until about 6 mos - he just soaked through everything. At the moment we have a system that works for us to get him through the night, but he's sopping by morning. I do have to use a fleece inner/liner though because otherwise he would be rash boy by morning.

He will not sleep though if he has a poopy. Those nights I have to go scrambling for another dipe to change him at 3 am.

[Ruby2]

We cd during the day and use a disposable at night too. Dd goes from 8 or so until 6 without a change. At about 4 months she started saving her poops until after she woke up. I've just recently considered (at 6 months) skipping the disposable and using cloth overnight, but I'm worried about leaks on our mattress!

[hildare]

nope.

we use BG's at night and stuff those suckers full. it is totally not worth it to get up (we cosleep) and change her, as she never fully awakens to eat & has screamed her head off the few times we tried.
The BG's keep her parts dry and work really really well for nighttime. Only had a leak once, when I didn't put the diap on tightly enough.

I must be the only mama whose babe doesn't poop at night ever?? weird.

[mamadelbosque]

I generally double-stuff ds2's bg 3.0s for night time and rarely have to change him over night (though I keep a couple diapers upstairs w/ us so if he does manage to get soaking wet I don't have to get up to change him Every once in a *LONG* while he'll poop over night and for that I do have to get up... but thats very rare!!)

[Ninetales]

Not just you, Hildare. Elsa pooped at night sometimes early on (when it's pretty much all poop) but since about six weeks when she started sleeping all night we've had maybe two night poops. And they were really like early morning poops.

I changed her once at night, usually between 430 and 6 until she was 2.5 months old. And it was mostly because I felt guilty leaving her in one diaper all night because she'd be wet on her skin. That stopped once I started doubling up her nighttime fitted with a newborn prefold. Now we don't change at night and she stays in it from 10 pm to 8 am.

[Addie]

DS (7 mo) hasn't pooped at night since around 2 months, and we never change him during the night. We use cloth day and night. Our nighttime diapering system has evolved, and we have dry sheets and a non-rashy baby in the morning, after 10-11 hours in the same diaper. It rocks.

[Knitting Mama]

Cecilia has never pooped at night. She's generally a once a day pooper, and that poop usually happens in the evening, unless something's weird with her digestion that day (we use donated breast milk along with my milk, and sometimes something sets off her digestive system a little).

[Peace+Hope]

another mom who uses the same system at night as during the day - prefolds and wool covers, and only changes my LO when he poops, from 8pm to 9am pretty much.

my LO sleeps on a wool pad in our bed, so i'm not worried about the sheets, and i use longies not just soaker, so even when he has a blow-out the wool catches the poo

he's pooping less often at night all the time, except for two nights ago when he pooped every feeding and at least one extra time between, heh.

[waiting2bemommy]

if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

dd had a yeast rash the first week she was born and I stopped using covers so I could change her as soon as she peed or pooped. now I rarely use them. She still pees at night but I lay an extra prefold under her to catch leaks and we're good to go. I have to change the sheets a lot anyway because *I* leak more than she does!

[Calee]

Not unless he has pooped or soaked through his clothes!

[always hope]

You have all inspired me to try to use cloth at night as well. Ella is in a disposable over night from about 7pm-8am. It is so heavy when I take it off! But she doesn't poop till morning so cloth would be good if it can hold the pee.

[Snapdragon]

sorry to be the odd one out- but I or dh change ds's (our 3 month old) diaper every night. We are trying to do EC so we don't want him to get used to being in wet diapers. (and we use cloth diapers only)
In the beginning we even EC'ed him at night every night! Now, because we are tired, we just change the diaper after every time he wakes up to nurse. Sometimes we offer him a chance to pee in the toilet if we have the energy.
I am not one of those people who does side lying nursing well- and I couldn't really sleep through a nursing, and I like to use the nursing pillow. So when I am already up either I or dh change the diaper- we alternate nights (informally- whoever is lesss tired)
and that is usually once, sometimes twice a night. I never considered not doing it. (but I have no opinion on how others do it- just sharing my own experience!)

[cristeen]

Originally Posted by Katie34

sorry to be the odd one out- but I or dh change ds's (our 3 month old) diaper every night.

Don't feel bad at all... until 6 mos when I gave up night-nursing, every night waking meant getting up, pulling out the nursing pillow, picking him up and settling him on it, and then trying to move him once he was back asleep. And I changed him before I nursed him at least once a night.

Only since I switched to bottle-feeding at night have I tried to figure out a system to let him stay in a single dipe all night.

[MsVyky]

Not since she was teeny tiny, nope. She poops shortly after waking each morning and we use double stuffed pockets at night.