How??!!

I've read so many times that for a newborn, you need 10-12 nappies per day. And I am wondering, how can you need so many nappies per day?

Jake sleeps for 3.5-6 hours at a time and I don't wake him to change his nappy. There is no way I could possibly need more than 6 or 7 nappies in a day, and that is taking into account the times when I change his nappy and he poops immediately (or mis-positioning of his willy and him peeing straight out the side or top )

Am I just being grim and not changing my son enough? I've never done this bit in cloth before. Bella was 6 weeks old before she went into cloth.

I think we went through 8 to 10 a day.only because nathan had a habit of pooing 4 times in an hour and every time he fed.

When Aoife was that young I changed her every feed, every poop and failing that every 2=3 hours...paranoid mummy here who didn't want any rashes

I change every feed, and he usually poops whilst he is feeding - he is yet to do it after a feed. I usually change him between his boob and bottle (he is mixed fed and has boob first then a bottle). This sometimes means I have to change him after his bottle as well, but not often. But as he is only feeding every 3.5 - 6 hours (depending on time of day - he sleeps more at night, YAY!!) and sleeps like the dead in between, I am only changing him then. I'm using fleece liners in all the non-fleece lined nappies which are keeping his bum bone-dry.

I'm with you Tanya - I changed clara every time she woke up in daytime, and any time she was dirty, but still only went through about 6-7 in a day. Newborns do sleep a lot don't they! I'd forgotten how much until I had her here. If I tried to do 10 in a day, then i would have had to wake her.

Only changed her in the night a couple of times because she wasn't dirtying them and they were holding the wee for long enough. And she was in pockets so dry bottom.

Imogen was changed every poop and every feed as a nb and I think we went through about 9/10 though I am counting through the night too so from say 7am -7am

Isaiah got through about 10 a day in sposies. He never slept for longer than 2hrs at night though without a feed for the first few weeks

I can't get my head around figures like that, both of mine were EBF from day one and in cloth from about a month old, sposies beforehand - apart from occasional days when there were *many* poos I don't think we generally got through more than 6-7 nappies in 24 hours! Neither were heavy wetters though.

He's determined to make a liar of me today. Since posting my last post, he's pooped twice He NEVER usually poops between feeds, but is just having one of those days