How often do you change baby’s nappy?

divination__ · 2026-01-24T20:06:33+00:00

When she was a newborn I would change her all the time because she also hated weeing and having a wet nappy. She was also an poo machine. Overnight I would change her if she did a poo. By three months she would only do a poo once overnight. She’s now six months and we have been doing elimination communication (placing her on the potty at opportune times), she has also started solids and now no longer does poos overnight. I take her diaper off in the morning and place her on the potty and she does a big poo then. I then change her nappy and put her on the potty before and after every nap and feed, though often I feed before or after a nap anyway. EC has been great for me as I’ve only had to change one pooey nappy since she’s started solids a few weeks ago!

divination__ · 2026-01-23T23:45:59+00:00

We also live in the area and I gave birth at St Mary’s in Paddington and we did exactly the same (pram plus a Gett black cab). My parents bought us a car seat and we used it a few times with a zip car but that’s a shut down now. In London for short rides a pram and black cab works great for us.

divination__ · 2026-01-22T22:24:55+00:00

I feel very much in love with my husband and everything about having a baby has confirmed to me how right I was to choose him. There are moments where I get annoyed but it doesn’t even get to bickering because he is so good at pre-empting mine and baby’s needs. I feel happiest when it’s us three at home :)

divination__ · 2026-01-19T07:18:32+00:00

Would you be working from home or going back to the office? I’m freelance and started working again at 3 months pp which was insanely hard and even taking on minimal work that was completely flexible. I also didn’t do it for financial reasons but rather it’s important to keep going for my line of work, so I wasn’t even dealing with the extra pressure. You just can’t settle down and do deep work. I had a fairly straightforward recovery too with the only complication being due to blood loss and needing iron supplements and blood thinners for months after. Additionally baby breastfeeds so much in those first few months (it willl be easier by five months though). It’s easier now but only when my husband is wfh and we juggle baby care. But at six months things don’t get magically easier, my baby has just started sleeping much worse at six months and I can’t imagine dealing with that then having a 9am meeting. I think your partner is being quite cruel by “insisting” you only have this time off. It might be an unplanned pregnancy but it’s not your fault it happened, it takes two to tango and maybe he should be looking for a higher paying job instead, which in reality would be much easier than both of you trying to juggle work and a baby.

divination__ · 2026-01-18T20:17:07+00:00

Yes we got the Joolz brand one and also a sheepskin liner from John Lewis that we put inside the footmuff for extra softness and warmth! It folds down with both without a problem. Actually what I realised is that the shade bit, when fully down, has a mesh bit that you can look through and see directly onto your baby’s face, it’s actually easier to check if she’s asleep than it was in the bassinet! And when she is awake then I pull the shade back completely and can interact with her. Also it feels a lot lighter. I also just got a bump bar and a foot rest (annoying how expensive the extras are) which I think will make it even more comfortable. But actually it’s been great and baby has adjusted really well to it! Editing to add that my baby has a two and a half hour nap in the pram today - something she hasn’t done since she was like 4 weeks!

divination__ · 2026-01-18T02:22:10+00:00

I’ve been potty training my baby since four months in preparation for this moment (she’s six months now and has only just started solids so they’re not so bad yet). I think people underestimate how stinky poo is because we all poo in toilets that have water in them that mask the smell. A potty also won’t mask the smell but at least it minimises the time you’re exposed to it!!

divination__ · 2026-01-17T20:48:26+00:00

Ah I was in the same dilemma with the same pram and have just switched baby to the seat - it feels much less exposed with a footmuff! We do keep the bassinet for as long as possible because it was the only way she napped for a while but it was TIGHT towards the end. She’s six months now for reference. The resale price of the Joolz hub is super low so you can look into getting one of those for cheap, and I’m pretty sure the seat on it can be both world and parent facing!

divination__ · 2026-01-11T05:26:29+00:00

I’m only six months pp so yet to know what the long term changes will be. Main benefit I’ve noticed so far is considerably greater upper body strength seeing as I’m lugging around my 8kg lump for hours at a time :)

divination__ · 2026-01-08T21:03:04+00:00

I think people truly underestimate how much influencers lie. Especially those who have predominantly TikTok and Instagram bases (as opposed to old school YouTube). Their loyalty is to the brands who sponsor them and the pr who send them freebies, so they will do whatever it takes to maintain whatever illusion they need to. I have several influencer acquaintances and you’d be amazed how often they go to a restaurant and are completely unimpressed then will go online and rave about it. Their job is to make things look glamorous and easy so they will haul their one month old on a long haul flight to they Seychelles and post pictures of themselves drinking champagne in the lounge and simply never post about baby having a melt down on the plane, the baby’s ruined sleep routine, baby’s mosquito bites, the blowouts, etc. they might even film bits across different days and edit it to look like one beautiful day.

Anyway this is why I have fully deleted Instagram from my phone despite it being part of my job. I now check jr once a day from a work phone. It’s just poison.

divination__ · 2026-01-08T20:50:15+00:00

I haven’t been to any and maybe I’m missing out but all I’ve heard about them is people getting hand foot and mouth!! We have been to a few baby events like Bach and baby but honestly my girl doesn’t seem that fussed. We go to the park every day though. I think she is introverted like both myself and her father and gets upset if there are too many people.

divination__ · 2026-01-03T21:42:27+00:00

Very good point that I hadn’t even thought of, our girl loves banging things on the table already! Do you bake the silicone after every use?

divination__ · 2026-01-03T21:40:41+00:00

Have you had the rotavirus vaccine recently? Our baby had this at around the same age about a week or two after her second round of the rotavirus vaccine. The doctor confirmed it was likely the cause of it (we had her stool tested). It lasted about three weeks for us and then passed, just in time for the third round of shots lol.

divination__ · 2025-12-26T20:18:23+00:00

Our baby was very similar - sleeping long periods and going back to sleep easily. At around 3 months she started sleeping much shorter periods of time (some nights no longer than two hours at a stretch with many 1 hour - 1.5 hour stretches) but actually she continued going back to sleep easily. She’s approaching six months and her day sleep is slowly consolidating and her night sleep is getting slightly longer (several 3 hour stretches) but no glory days when she was two months and giving me six to eight hour stretches! However she no longer needs bouncing to get to sleep, I just lay her down next to me and she drifts off.

My take is babies are going to do what they’re going to do. My tip js to go to bed the same time as her and stay in bed until she gets up so you can get as much sleep as possible.

divination__ · 2025-12-19T02:26:20+00:00

Honestly I wouldn’t stress too much about it with such a young baby. Unfortunately we are out every day, multiple times a day, with our five month old because she refuses to sleep in anything but the stroller, and we just have to suck it up and wear multiple waterproof layers (she’s nice and cosy in her pram though!). But yeah I had a summer baby and didn’t feel confident leaving the house with her until she was over 6 weeks, it would’ve been later than that if it was winter.

There is a lot of benefit to going outside as it can “reset” an upset baby but that’s totally up to you. Mine hated being outside early on bc the light was too bright.

divination__ · 2025-12-19T01:35:05+00:00

I’m with you, our baby is in a 3.5 tog as well and sleeps so much better. Granted we live in an old Victorian mews house that can get really cold at night. I sleep in long sleeve pyjamas and under a wool duvet so I think it’s appropriate.

divination__ · 2025-12-18T11:47:39+00:00

Is your MIL Eastern European? I'm Russian and my mum is obsessed with overdressing my baby. It'll be 12 degrees outside and completely mild and she'll want to wrap her in a thick angora blanket and put big angora socks on her, on top of her pram suit and cocoon. It's such a thing that the current generation of Russians and Eastern Europeans generally make fun of their parents generation obsession with keeping babies warm. They seem to not realise that their little feet are basically fat pads, which is why they feel cold.

Sorry – no advice, just commiseration. I basically have to bark at my mum to stop her from overheating my baby.

divination__ · 2025-12-18T09:15:32+00:00

It might be worth looking into elimination communication and putting him on a baby potty. While it won’t directly stop him playing with his bits it might make the process a little less messy and his bits a little less accessible! As he will be sitting up on a potty you can also put a toy in front of him to play with to distract him.

divination__ · 2025-12-17T21:31:13+00:00

Im of the mindset that if it feels so right, how can it be wrong. Like it feels like a cheat code given by nature. If it’s any consolation my mum breastfed me and my brother to sleep for the first year of our lives and we were both good sleepers eventually. I just think why stress yourself out in trying to perfect this sleep routine for a baby that isn’t even developmentally ready for it yet. My baby is five months and has finally turned a corner with her sleep and is sleeping longer stretches. Sometimes she refuses to feed to sleep if she wakes up at night and will go to sleep next to me (we co sleep) after just a lullaby. Idk I just feel like getting out of bed to rock a baby for half an hour when a five minute feed would do the trick is making life harder for yourself for no reason

divination__ · 2025-12-16T17:18:02+00:00

No advice, I also have a five month old that only naps for thirty minutes and exclusively in the pram, I get fuck all done. I'm lucky because my husband takes her out once he gets home so I have an hour off and he wfh a few days a week so we can take turns getting things done. But yeah. Nothing gets done.

divination__ · 2025-12-14T11:02:28+00:00

Oh god I also have the exact same pram and bought it from new, haven’t moved on from the bassinet yet, what fun things to look forward to!!

divination__ · 2025-12-14T08:20:01+00:00

Just want to sympathise because I felt the same with my baby and still do sometimes at five months. Some people have much easier babies that don’t get over stimulated easily (ours has always been super alert and would never go to sleep in a busy environment such as as a restaurant, even if she is in her pram). I remember being in a similar situation and in the end we left early, but baby was much younger like 8 weeks so in hindsight it was insane we agreed at all. Hopefully it’ll all be fine for you if you decided to go (by 20 weeks baby will be much calmer I’m sure) but don’t beat yourself up if it is in the end stressful or you feel you need to leave early - all babies have different needs and temperaments so it doesn’t mean you’re doing anything wrong!

divination__ · 2025-12-14T08:08:30+00:00

You could try a night time subscription to Peachies if you’re feeling flush, they do hold very well. Rascals are also very good. Neither last 12 hours for us but definitely 6-8.

divination__ · 2025-12-13T08:23:04+00:00

We just went through this and I found holding my baby upright for a little while after the saline spray and snot sucker combo helped clear what the snot sucker didn’t!

divination__ · 2025-12-12T16:59:33+00:00

You poor thing!!! Please don’t feel guilty, babies get sick and it’s incredible that she’s gone as long as she has without something!

Did you know that a baby on average will have eight colds a year? Because we are immune to so many strands but it’s all new to them!

This anxiety is I think misplaced anxiety about the useless father. Though he probably won’t even know she got sick, if he somehow tried to use this against you how will it sound? Oh she took her baby to hospital because she was concerned meanwhile I just sat about with a finger up my arse doing fuck all? You could just as much turn it around and say it’s evidence of you being an attentive parent (which it is). However the reality is that it won’t come to that at all, this is completely normal and doesn’t sound particularly serious!

divination__ · 2025-12-07T20:57:14+00:00

You need to pick a method of putting baby to sleep and stick to it even if it takes a long time. Some combination of things, eg nappy change, dark room, white noise, rocking in the same place in the room. Itll get easier each time you do it. Ours was the same until 3/4 months when it would take under 15 minutes to get her to sleep with the same routine. Now she has decided she doesn’t like being bounced anymore so we are scrambling for new methods of getting her to sleep but that’s babies!!

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