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Feed, diaper, sleep schedule

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A lot of people have talked about feed, wake, sleep schedules, but I want to ask when most people are changing diapers in this process?   Sounds like a stupid questiion as I ask it, but it seems like whichever order we try doesn't really work.  Before eating and he goes right after.  Changing him after eating and he goes again before falling asleep.  I don't want to leave him in a dirty diaper, but it seems that each feeding process can take way too long if we try to catch it all.   This is especially not fun at night, trying to get him back down (on the night he is actually sleeping!).  
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Re: Feed, diaper, sleep schedule

  • lindsayleigh23lindsayleigh23
    My 3 week old has gotten into a mild routine of waking up, then I change him and he eats then falls asleep on my chest. Bad habit I know, but it works for us. Plus, our LC told us that when his diaper is bothering him, he will let us know. And so far its proven true. He only sleeps for 2 hrs at a time so I don't feel THAT bad, even though I feel your pain about leaving him in a dirty diaper too. Get Butt Paste-it works overnight!
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  • crazgrljescrazgrljes

    I don't think it's a stupid question.

    What usually works for us is to change DS after a feeding. It seems like he usually does his business while we're feeding him, or while he's sleeping. I don't change him when he wakes during the night to feed, unless he is actually dirty. I figure that will help prepare him for when he actually sleeps all night, also, it is much easier to get him back to sleep that way.

     


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  • Sweets2005Sweets2005 member

    I'm not sure what the pp was referring to, but never let your baby sit in a poopy diaper! I am sure you know that. It can cause a horrible, bleeding diaper rash- even with butt paste. A wet diaper for a couple hours longer than usual is fine at night.

    One suggestion that was given to me at night was nurse, change diaper, re-swaddle, nurse on the other side back to sleep. 

    At night, I only change every other diaper- if I know it wasn't poopy. It's hard though because a lot of times, it is just wet and then the act of waking her all up to change her makes her poop. But they do start to poop less eventually.

    Also, you will just have to figure out what works for your baby. My twins always pooped when they ate so I never changed them first. But DD2 usually only poops a couple times a day so I usually change before I feed her.

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  • mamasmurf12mamasmurf12 member

    I usually change her right when she wakes up. She falls asleep nursing, so I hate when I have to change her after she eats at night b/c it wakes her up and have to coax her back to sleep! I also check her periodically during wakeful times...she poops alot, lol.

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  • detokietdetokiet
    In the middle of the night I change him when he first gets up. With his reflux he needs to be upright after he eats, and he tends to fall asleep while eating during the night, so rather than wake him up after eating just to try to get him back to sleep, I change him first. During the day I change him every couple of hours depending on how full his diaper looks from peeing, and whether or not he pooped. (He only poops once a day generally.)
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