Do your LOs let you know they need a diaper change?

jcsumm0 · March 2012

Evie has never been one to fuss when her diaper is dirty. For example, yesterday she got up from a nap, I changed her, we had lunch and then went for a walk. I changed her when we came back (it was about 2 hours later) and she had pooped! I feel so bad, and that isn't the first time she has pooped and I didn't realize it right away. She didn't seem uncomfortable and I didn't smell it--I don't know if it's b/c we CD or what, but I can't usually smell it unless it is a huge poop or I get right up to her butt.

Do your LOs fuss when they need a diaper change? Ideas for me? Do I just need to sniff her butt more often? I'm afraid she's going to get a rash or UTI.

CarlaAndJames · March 2012

Lexi is the same way. When she was a newborn, she cried if there was a drop of pee in her diaper. Now, she could not care less, she's too busy playing! Luckily most of her pooping is at daycare, and they seem to be pretty vigilant and change her pretty often. On the weekends I just keep checking fairly often, but I can usually smell it, especially now with solids, yuck!

DowagerCountessofNJ · March 2012

Sophia doesn't seem to care if she has a dirty diaper either. She's starting to get a little more vocal about when there's poop though. I guess she doesn't like it so much when she's moving around...can't say I blame her.

We CD too and I can barely smell it unless I'm like right next to her. I think it is the CD because you can smell my niece from across the room and she's in disposables.

Sunidaze · March 2012

Used to be we'd know exactly when pooped. Now, opening up that diaper is like opening up Pandora's box! I mean we do get warning on occasion...but not nearly enough anymore! And with pee...my grandmother is convinced that Stella does this little shiver when she pees.

chocoholicchick · March 2012

DS never fussed about wet diapers but he would definitely let me know about a dirty one. He's still the same way even now with more solid poops.

cvl105 · March 2012

Yup, Callie let's us know when she has a poopy diaper!

MouseInLux · March 2012

I can tell if she's in a spossie, the think reeks to high he!! ! When we're CDing (99% of the time) I have to smell her every so often between changes to find out

march2008 · March 2012

DD doesn't usually let me know if she has a wet diaper. I just periodically feel how squishy her diaper is and/or peak down the back of her diaper. I can usually smell when she's pooped now that she's eating solids; before solids, I almost never knew until I opened the diaper. Also, my increased sense of smell that I got during pregnancy never went away!

mjid1105 · March 2012

DD usually lets me know if she pooped. If she pees she could care less.

MrsSparklesMcGee · March 2012

She never lets me know and since she's in CDs, I have to do the face in the butt smell test every so often (fun!).

jcsumm0 · March 2012

Thanks, ladies, I guess some more butt sniffin' is in my future!

Telly21182 · March 2012

He rarely lets me know when he needs a diaper change, even if he has a blowout in the middle of the night. He's more inclined to wake in the middle of the night (aside from needing a bottle) if he has an overly wet leaky diaper.

Aside from sniff his butt ALL THE TIME, I don't know what else to do. If he poops while in the high chair I know though. It echos so loudly!

SarahP15 · March 2012

mjid1105:
DD usually lets me know if she pooped. If she pees she could care less.

Same with DS. And a lot of times I can tell when he's pooping because of his expression/sounds

KYBABY2011 · March 2012

Ds does not tell me when he needs to be changed. He does crawl into a corner if he needs to poop and sits vwry still and grunts. Lol

jcsumm0 · March 2012

KYBABY2011:
Ds does not tell me when he needs to be changed. He does crawl into a corner if he needs to poop and sits vwry still and grunts. Lol

That is hilarious!

Hallil · March 2012

Brynn HATES being wet or dirty, and has since day one. She gets squirmy and irritable until you change her diaper. We have tried to just change it as quick as possible so that she doesn't 'get used' to the feeling. She is also in cloth and you can't smell her like our friends kids who are in disposables. And that's not to say her sh*t don't stink, lol, the cloth just holds it in.

Sunidaze · March 2012

KYBABY2011:
Ds does not tell me when he needs to be changed. He does crawl into a corner if he needs to poop and sits vwry still and grunts. Lol

Love this!

Way back when, Stella would grab on to both of my thumbs to 'bear down' while pooping. The faces she made would crack me up!

Magenta728 · March 2012

Nope. When she was a newborn, she cried if she had a poop explosion (but never pee). Now, she doesn't make a peep.

11kacey · March 2012

M will let NOT sleep if she is about to poop or has poop in her diaper. She will chatter and talk until I come to check on her and then I can smell it. Sometimes she won't have pooped yet, but she will within ten minutes or so.. she just knows when it is going to happen, I swear.

I noticed that she would stop playing and lie down in her play area and I thought it was nap time and then I smelled her. It has happened a few times now.

kas80 · March 2012

She lets me know if she poops- she doesn't cry she just starts lifting her butt up and grabbing at her diaper. She never lets me know when shes wet.

cfisher2008 · March 2012

As a NB DD wouldn't tolerate the tiniest bit of pee, let alone poop. Now she doesn't care either way. Since we CD, I can never smell it, so I often get poop surprises

Wait, I take it back. DD will not sleep in poop, so if she poops right before nap she cries. Other than sleeping time, she will not let me know.

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