Moms with outside babies: nursing and diaper changes

belle785 · August 2014

How do you do diaper changes in the middle of the night? Do you do before a feeding, middle, or at the end? I've been doing them first then nurse and change again if he poops. I don't know if this is working well for us though. He tends to fall asleep while nursing and I don't think he is getting enough because he does a short stretch of sleep. I'm thinking about nursing one side, change, nurse other. I just don't want him to stay awake after changing because he doesn't really have any wakeful periods in the night. So what do you do?

mislogis · August 2014

Change feed and put to bed. Unless I hear a really wet poop. Then I will change again, cuddle for a few and put her down. She goes back to bed pretty quickly.

lookame3639 · August 2014

Change, feed and hope she goes back to sleep...

caballablanca · August 2014

Change, feed, sleep. I hate to wake a sleeping baby.

gahorseygal · August 2014

Do you feed swaddled? I like to feed in just the diaper but sometimes reswaddling her wakes her up after eating.

sharkmama39 · August 2014

I have a very sleepy LO so I change her before we nurse which helps her wake up so that we can actually get in a decent feeding.

Alaska_Bride · August 2014

Change, feed, ... and what is this sleep thing you guys are talking about?

belle785 · August 2014

Ok sounds like I'm doing what everyone else is... Not going to wake him up in the middle and jinx myself.

cachoque · August 2014

Another question (sorry if covered elsewhere).. Does everyone always nurse both boobs? Sounds like several of us have sleepy LOs. I try to change and burp b/w sides but he still doesn't wake up or he falls back asleep as soon as he's on the 2nd one. How critical is it? Also any advice? I've tried to make him a little colder by undressing and sitting under a low speed fan. Also turning on brighter lights. None of these seem to work.

tamarar5 · August 2014

I always changed, nursed, then put back to bed, unless there was another messy diaper. My first wouldn't sleep for crap ever, but my second would stay asleep through the second change, if there needed to be one.

I also always nursed both sides, but that backfired because I rarely had any back stock. This time I'm thinking of nursing one side while pumping the other, at least until I have a good stash. Had anyone done this method?

belle785 · August 2014

cachoque said:
Another question (sorry if covered elsewhere).. Does everyone always nurse both boobs? Sounds like several of us have sleepy LOs. I try to change and burp b/w sides but he still doesn't wake up or he falls back asleep as soon as he's on the 2nd one. How critical is it? Also any advice? I've tried to make him a little colder by undressing and sitting under a low speed fan. Also turning on brighter lights. None of these seem to work.

I typically one do one side and if he wants more, I move to the other. Most of time he only wants one. Just be sure to start the next feeding with the other side.

Valancyy · August 2014

I also change, feed, sleep. When he was only a few days old and sleepier, I would feed, change, feed, sleep. It would wake him up enough to take the other boob. Now he's more awake, so I don't need to do that anymore.

My son took only one breast for the first few days, and then began to take two. I find that if he only takes one, he won't stay asleep but wakes up to eat again, so I really try to get him to take both before I lay him down.

Russiandea12 · August 2014

Change, feed then nurse. If she falls asleep after 1st side then i unswaddle her to wake up enough to continue feeding.

MereDe3 · August 2014

cachoque said:

Another question (sorry if covered elsewhere).. Does everyone always nurse both boobs? Sounds like several of us have sleepy LOs. I try to change and burp b/w sides but he still doesn't wake up or he falls back asleep as soon as he's on the 2nd one. How critical is it? Also any advice? I've tried to make him a little colder by undressing and sitting under a low speed fan. Also turning on brighter lights. None of these seem to work.

I never nursed both sides, with either of my kids. They both got plenty from one side. It just worked better for us that way. It didnt cause any issues with my supply.

Laur110 · August 2014

Change, feed, cross my fingers and hope for sleep. After feeding I burp her and offer the other side, sometimes she is interested and sometimes she just snoozes.

ablessedmommy · August 2014

Do you wait for LO to wake on their own to feed or wake them to feed? I have been just waiting until LO wakes to feed at night and during the day. I just want to do anything wrong. How do you get back stock? Just curious? My LO typically nurses from both sides and is 6 days old.

pmpkn219 · August 2014

I always changed after feeding- at least for the first few months EVERY time he nursed, he pooped. So I didn't bother changing him before, it would've been 2 changes.

He was always a one-boob feeder, so he'd wake, nurse himself halfway back to sleep, change diaper, sleep sack and back to sleep. Sometimes I held him for a couple minutes, but in those early days the diaper change really didn't rouse him once he had a belly full of milk.

PecanSam · August 2014

With my first, my husband would change her diaper, hand her to me, I would feed her, both sides and she would fall asleep.

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