MOTN diaper changes

[SheilaTheTank]

Do you still do them? 

K usually only wakes once between 2-3 to eat. Since I went back to work MH gets up with me and changes her and then gives her to me to nurse. I see on other boards when lurking that people don't change their LOs unless they poop MOTN. K hasn't pooped in the MOTN since about 6 weeks. We CD and double up for night, so she isn't soaking and there are no leaks, but I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around putting K back into her crib wet. I'm probably projecting my own feelings onto this one because I can't imagine trying to fall asleep while wet. I'm being weird right? 

[carissa325]

I do if I can tell that she's pretty wet because I want her to sleep longer after the feeding and I know she won't if she's very wet. Little girl can't stand to be wet or dirty.

[jewel441]

Haven't changed a MOTN diaper since about 6 or 7 weeks, except when she had her shots.

I don't even check it anymore. She doesn't poop MOTN and it just wakes them up more. Our pedi told us not to change her MOTN unless she really needed it, that not doing it further emphasizes the day/night difference. She has never had diaper rash or anything. We are using disposables though, she can pee through a pampers at night but since we switched to exclusively honest that hasn't happened and also now that she eats less at night sometimes her diaper isn't even ginormous in the morning. I don't take her out of the Merlin for MOTN feeds. Just pull her in bed and feed her and put her back and she barely wakes up. The whole thing takes 10 minutes usually and I think it's the only reason I'm not a sleep deprived monster even when she wakes up 3 times. She is still up to eat 2-3 times a night.

[megrae12]

I don't do MOTN changes. W barely wets at night so I leave it and change when we are up for the day.

[halfahippy]

What kind of cloth diaper do you use? For overnights I'm using a yellow edge workhorse and it is usually not soaking wet in the morning. She goes about 9-6 in one. You could cut a piece of microfleece to make her diaper feel dry. I do that with DS because his skin is pretty sensitive. DD doesn't seem to have such sensitive skin so I haven't gotten around to it for her. I just slather her in coconut oil at bedtime and she's good to go.

[SheilaTheTank]

Jun 22, 2016 8:20:58 GMT -5 halfahippy said:

What kind of cloth diaper do you use? For overnights I'm using a yellow edge workhorse and it is usually not soaking wet in the morning. She goes about 9-6 in one. You could cut a piece of microfleece to make her diaper feel dry. I do that with DS because his skin is pretty sensitive. DD doesn't seem to have such sensitive skin so I haven't gotten around to it for her. I just slather her in coconut oil at bedtime and she's good to go.

We use a yellow edge prefold with a birdseye flat bikini folded for extra absorbency. She slept 9 hours last night and wasn't completely soaked when she woke. K doesn't usually rash either so I'm not worried about that. 

I think this is a mental thing I just have to get over. 

[sunshineshades]

I do not change her. She wears disposables for night right now and wears the same one 12 hours.

[rachelilly23]

Yeah, she probably doesn't need it. Let your H sleep!

[arbe]

only when there are leaks... or if she has diaper rash

[Deleted]

We don't unless there is poop. We haven't since he started sleeping through the night at six weeks. Now when he does wake up in the middle of the night, it's a quick dream feed and I put him back down.

For some reason a few times in the past week he has pooped in the middle of the night. That shit can go ahead and just stop right now. (Literally).

[Deleted]

ALSO. He has stopped peeing as much overnight. Sometimes he won't have peed at all, other times it's very little. Then he has a HUGE pee in the mornings after he wakes up. The first few times it happened it freaked us the eff out, but dr. google said it was normal!

[cinnamonsmiles]

Jun 22, 2016 11:08:57 GMT -5 @pugsandwine said:

ALSO. He has stopped peeing as much overnight. Sometimes he won't have peed at all, other times it's very little. Then he has a HUGE pee in the mornings after he wakes up. The first few times it happened it freaked us the eff out, but dr. google said it was normal!

This happened to us quite a few times too. I stopped changing her MOTN because she would be dry when I checked before her feed.

We do a Blueberry simplex + Thirsties small hemp insert + fleece liner for 12hrs.

[paloslee]

LOs last diaper change is at 730-8pm. He sleeps through the nite so he doesn't get another fresh diaper till the morning.

[chatterbox]

I rarely change DS in the MOTN. Only if he has trouble falling back to sleep after he nurses or if it is really full.

[rosetyler72]

We change C at the 2 or 4 am wake up because he's started pooping again due to the extra wake ups. Damn you sleep regression!

[sctiger]

I change it during her first wake up (knocks on wood, most nights it's one wake up). I tried to put her down without changing her last night and she looked at me like, aren't you forgetting something mom? She likes to have her diaper changed though. She usually smiles when I change her, day or night.

[jess9802]

I stopped changing his diaper once he stopped pooping over night, though I can't remember when that was. He is a heavier wetter than DS1, though; I've already had to add a doubler. I'm using a bamboo flat plus a Thirsties velour doubler and a Thirsties cover.

[katespade]

I change her. It bothers me to think of her sitting in a diaper that long. Sometimes she is dry (like yesterday) and sometimes she peed a ton (today). I've gotten good at quick changes with very little light.

[SheilaTheTank]

Jun 23, 2016 7:22:02 GMT -5 katespade said:

I change her. It bothers me to think of her sitting in a diaper that long. Sometimes she is dry (like yesterday) and sometimes she peed a ton (today). I've gotten good at quick changes with very little light.

See this is where I'm at. It's a total mental thing that she shouldn't be wet for that long. 

[SheilaTheTank]

I told MH that he's off the hook for MOTN diaper changes and he told me "No, that's my job. How else am I supposed to help in MOTN?"

k, hun. I tried.

[katespade]

Jun 23, 2016 7:27:23 GMT -5 SheilaTheTank said:

Jun 23, 2016 7:22:02 GMT -5 katespade said:

I change her. It bothers me to think of her sitting in a diaper that long. Sometimes she is dry (like yesterday) and sometimes she peed a ton (today). I've gotten good at quick changes with very little light.

See this is where I'm at. It's a total mental thing that she shouldn't be wet for that long. 

I'm also still trying to learn how sensitive her skin is. My H has EXTREMELY sensitive skin and so I'm very cautious with her until we know stuff is ok. She's done well with babyganics soap and lotion and she hasn't had a diaper rash yet but she's had a few times of redness down there and it's generally been days where she napped for awhile and didn't get changed as often.

It would certainly save me on diapers to change her less but I can't do it!