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Don't wake a sleeping baby?
So, we change DD diaper before and after each feeding which usually causes her to wake up again and need to be settled (either with a little more nursing or just rocking) to get back to sleep. Once asleep, we sometimes hear her poop again about 15-30 minutes later. So, we change her for fear of diaper rash and end up with a wide awake baby again.
Are we doing the right thing or should we let her sleep even though we hear that she's likely pooped (and sometimes it ends up just being gas or a teensy tiny amount so we woke her for nothing)?
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Re: Don't wake a sleeping baby?
She wakes every 2-4 hours for feedings...so she'd be in the diaper for up to three hours. We do slather on Dr. Smith's just to be safe.
C never pooped while he was asleep. So I'm no help there.
But we would change him between boobs while he nursed. I think DH would change him first, bring him to me, we'd nurse for a while then he'd change him again and we just put him down after the second boob. After he got a little older, we would just change before nursing and put him back down.
That's what they had us to in the hospital. She already got pretty bad diaper rash about day 5 or 6 due to my eating too much acidic food so we're a little paranoid now.
dd had a diaper rash in the nicu and they had us changing her every two hours, regardless of whether or not she was awake. we learned to do it pretty quickly and she'd go back to sleep with a little soothing.
when she was about 3-4 weeks she got one so bad that she was raw and we had to do it again.
bm is like a pipe snake - totally cleans them out! if she's consistently going after each feeding i'd just try to keep her awake until she does. otherwise i'd just change her before and let her go until she loads another diaper.
I only change before the feeding and not after (unless she pooped while feeding). if that's the case, I stop the feeding and change her and continue the feeding again.
If she poops randomly, then change her because it will cause a diaper rash. To make sure it's poop, I normally just stick my nose on her diaper area and sniff (gross, but I rather do that than have a baby wide awake for no reason!). But I would change any poopy diaper even if it's a tiny amount.
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