Is It Convenient To Wake The Baby Up For A Diaper Change?

Changing the baby’s diaper is always very important that it be done in time,  this to avoid possible irritation that could become complicated. How often it should be done will depend on several factors such as the baby’s age and what diet he or she has, among others.

According to age, there are different but strong reasons for waking you up during the day or at night; it is also very likely that the child himself gives signs that a diaper needs to be changed. However, when they are very young perhaps they have not yet learned to express that they have this need, and their sleep patterns are still not normal.

Remember that when a baby has a dirty diaper for a long time, it can get burns or reddening on the skin, often accompanied by dermatitis, or can get infections. Regardless of the quality of the diaper and the comfort it suggests for the skin, it is essential to be aware because each baby is different.

when is a newborn

When it comes to a newborn baby, changing a diaper is usually needed more often. The newborn’s stomach is very small and its digestive system is developing, so it processes food slowly, but quickly discards what it has assimilated from its diet, which is normally breast milk.

On the other hand, your average eating time is between two or three hours apart; by which we would be talking about several times during the day and about three times during the night. As a result, it is necessary to be attentive after feeding them because it is common for them to evacuate immediately, so it is advisable to stimulate the baby to avoid gas or intestinal obstruction.

Likewise, it is possible that the cold that the baby feels makes him/her urinate more frequently;  remember that it comes from an aqueous medium with a different temperature. This also makes the need for him to urinate at the time of a diaper change, so don’t be surprised that he will urinate while you are changing him.

if it’s an older child

As the baby grows, changing a diaper is not as repetitive, but his urine is more abundant and he will be uncomfortable when he feels wet; you may start to cry because this is your means of expression and a defense mechanism. For this reason, it is convenient that we know how to recognize when the baby’s crying tells us that it is necessary to change the diaper, regardless of the time.

Usually, children begin to evacuate easily when they start to crawl, because with the mobility of the legs, the intestinal transit is favored. This implies that it will be more frequent during the day, however, there are children who need at least one diaper change during the night, which also depends a lot on the food they receive.

Is it advisable to change the diaper while sleeping at night?

Attention to changing diapers should be the same during the day and during the night, the same at any age of the child. However, each step has its own conditions and benefits, for example.

• Newborn babies require constant diaper changes, but their sleep is quite irregular. Waking him up to change his diaper during the day will determine his sleep habits, will create patterns where perhaps we will see benefits; being that if we do it correctly through the stimulus we will be programming its night sleep.
• In growing children, especially in terms of hygiene, we are helping them to form their own cleaning habits and begin to be aware of when they need to change their diapers.
  In the future, this becomes a tool to train you and help you start controlling your sphincters.

Baby’s sleep and diaper change

Many babies sleep long during the day while at night they tend not to sleep or wake up several times, although each child is different. This phenomenon occurs because the baby has not yet established its sleep rhythm, as it is an inverted schedule of what is usual in the mother’s womb.

To prevent the change of time from being drastic, it  is recommended to adapt the baby little by little to the sounds of the day, sunlight and daytime habits. If you need a diaper change during your day’s sleep, we can enjoy and wake you up with music and also in other cases like giving you a hot bath or feeding you.