Maybe I am bad I never wake DD up to change a pee pee diaper. If I smell poop yes but she never poops during the night. I just change her when she wakes up I always have.

 

I stop changing when they stop pooping. If I notice they are soaking wet, I will change (still do w/ Bret at 2 yo) but generally I don't change once they are not pooping.

 

Unless she has wet through or poopied I do not change at night, actually I hadn't ever even thought about it! I put her down at 9 and she is good until she wakes up about 7:30, she usually poops as soon as she wakes up and I change her! My policy- Never wake a sleeping babe!

Just make sure you figure out a good night time system so you don't have wet baby and wet sheets! B.

 

I stopped when nighttime pooping stopped too. I use fleece liners at night and breathable covers (wool or fleece) so he isnt feeling too wet and I dont want to risk waking him when there is a chance he wont go back to sleep.

 

I agree with Never Wake A Sleeping Baby!!! I change them if they poop or are leaking and I KNOW about it. I often sleep through night nursings and find out in the morning that the baby is leaking or has pooped.

 

i change at night until potty learning has occured. and then occasionally after that, too. lol

 

i change any wet diaper, even at night. i suppose the answer to the question for me then is, i stopped changing at night when my 21 month old stopped wetting them.

I could care less about leaks- my son hates having urine against his skin and i dont blame him!

tabitha

 

I had stopped changing her at night but then I got to thinking about her comfort and wether I would want to sleep in a wet diaper and wether I want her to think it is *normal* and ok to sleep in wetness. My new system (been doing it for a few weeks) is to put her in a snappid prefold on top of a premium prefold on top of a wool pad (I use a Lion Around from Celtic wool creations). I keep a stack of prefolds on my nightstand and when I feel wetness I change her and switch out the prefold she is laying on. I drop these on top of a another prefold that's laying on the floor by the bed. I agree that its not good to wake a sleeping baby. For a bit I would wake her to change her before I turned in for the night and she hated it. Now the only times I notice wetness are when she wakes me to nurse, so she is already wiggling, half awake, so I change her and nurse her and sometimes change her as I am finishing up nursing her...(snappiing a diaper while nursing and lying down is a learned art

) Anyway, she wakes up happy and dry and the sheets have stayed dry so far.

 

i need one of those lion around thingys! it sounds w00t.

 

Whenever they stopped waking up at night,all of my kids won't go back to sleep if I wake them up to change them(well ds isn't in diapers anymore..),but they were/are all like that!

I just always make sure I use pockets or fleece liners at night so she doesn't feel wet. And it works great, her bum is dry in the morning even if the diaper is soaked. When we used sposies she wet so much at night her bum would be damp and usually the sheets were too

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Hmmm, I don't know why but sometimes I feel judged when I reply to these threads...

Anyway, I don't change if there is no poop. No way am I waking her up and ticking her off just to change her! She is a normal healthy baby so I know if she is uncomfortable in the least she will let me know!

 

I stopped when there were no more poops and he was sleeping through the night, I think that was at about 4-6months. We don't co-sleep so I wouldn't know if it was "full" in the middle of the night, but he doesn't wake up fussing, so I figure he's compfortable. Whenever he has had a blow out in the middle of the night he does let me know! LOL He is also one that if I woke him (which changing a diaper definately would wake him) he would never go back to sleep!!

 

Pretty much after that 2 month mark when the baby stops pooing at every feeding we start holding off on changing everytime at night. Once they start sleeping longer and didn't poop at night anymore we started using "night diapers"... I never wake a baby to change a diaper. Unless it's pooped in and mine always wake up and let me know when it is. :LOL My babies don't like to go back to sleep after they've been changed either so we always tried to minimize the disruptions at night.

We use fleece liners and wool at night so he doesn't feel the wetness either.

 

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Originally Posted by Sheena Hmmm, I don't know why but sometimes I feel judged when I reply to these threads... Anyway, I don't change if there is no poop. No way am I waking her up and ticking her off just to change her! She is a normal healthy baby so I know if she is uncomfortable in the least she will let me know!

Amy, ikwym. Did I ever tell you about the time Bret refused to wear a dipe to bed? So I nursed him to sleep naked (planning on putting a dipe on him once he was asleep) and in the process I fell asleep too. He peed all over me, and you know what? I was too tired to care.

If they are uncomfortable they let you know. Some babes are probably more sensitive than others, but mine don't care.

 

Hmmm ... let's see ... Meredith is 4 and I still either take her to the potty around midnight or so OR she's already wet and I pull on a fresh pair of training panties.

Kenny always gets changed at the same time. He sleeps through it though - tries to roll to his stomach the whole time (not an easy diaper change!)

 

I don't remember a specific age...I think probably around 6-7 weeks. I would say I stopped when they stopped waking at night but I stopped way before then. Sometimes, DS would wake to be fed but then would fall right back to sleep. He started sleeping all night at 6 months.

 

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Originally Posted by Sheena Hmmm, I don't know why but sometimes I feel judged when I reply to these threads...

Me too!

 

i always change my son if he's wet or poopied. now he's almost 4 and very nearly potty-trained, and has only had a nighttime accident a couple of times in the past few weeks...

*every* time he *ever* had even a little bit of a wet diaper during the night, he'd wake from it and want to be changed. so, i'd change him. it seemed cruel to me to leave him in a wet diaper and force him to go back to sleep.

that said... there have been 2 or 3 times (in his life) that he pooped and didn't wake from it, and we didn't realize it until the morning.

but it's only happened those couple of times; every other time, he's woken up and wanted a change.

 

I don't think I'll EVER be able to go the whole night without changing Holden! Right now, I change him before he falls asleep (between 7:30-8:30), then again when I go to bed (he always wakes then to nurse). That's when I have to put the nighlight/stuffed FB combo on him the first time. Then I have to change him again aroung 4am, into another nightlight/stuffed FB combo.
And the worst part is that when I change him, the stuffer in the FB (over the heavily padded nighlight) is WET!!

 

At about 2 1/2 weeks when he stopped pooing at night. Now I only change if he's soaked thru, then its usually a pj/bedding change as well (he's 12 months old). Wet dipes don't seem to bother him, and his skin is always dry in the mornings, so I don't worry about it.

 

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At about 2 1/2 weeks when he stopped pooing at night.

!!!!!!!! you are SO LUCKY. my son is almost 4 and STILL poops at night. let me say again how lucky you are!!!!!!!!

 

I still change DD one or two times a night. She doesn't sleep well if she's wet - she's very restless and nurses a lot, then wakes again shortly after nursing back to sleep. I try to remember to grab a few prefolds and an extra cover to keep next to the bed so I can change her quickly, but I don't always remember.

Pocket diapers/fleece liners never worked for us, unfortunately. Oh well.

 

We cosleep, so when baby wakes to nurse, I am not really awake.
I dont change in the night. My baby is 3 months, and i think i didnt change him after he was about 3 weeks. He never pooped at night.

 

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He never pooped at night.

how is this possible?!

i need to make a poll about this or something...

 

There wasn't a specific age that I stopped changing at night - every night was different. Obviously any poop always got changed, although to be honest, I don't really remember many poopy diapers at night. Maybe I was just too sleep deprived to remember? But I asked dh, and he doesn't really remember many either. If we were all sleeping through wet diapers, well then I wasn't setting an alarm clock to check for pee, I'll tell you that much! If ds was sleeping through being wet, then so was I!

Ds is 3yo, and sometimes in the middle of the night wants his diaper off (usually because it's pretty wet). So I just take it off, and he goes back to sleep naked. And he hasn't ever peed in the bed.