https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Thu, 23 Apr 2026 12:41:55 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-diaper-change-before-or-after-feeding#post-403554 Fri, 16 Nov 2012 23:06:04 +0000 erwoo 403554@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I change before I feed him. I did it the same way with his older brother and I found it to be the best time to change it. Because if I change him after I risk getting sprayed with all the milk he just drank. Also, less chances of spitting up from lifting his legs up on the air. Oh, and if he falls asleep while nursing (especially during his bed time session) I don't have to worry about fully waking him up. It'll only upset him.</p> <p>Oh, and btw, the pooping will slow down as your LO gets older too. More so when they starts solids. I sure don't miss newborn poop! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-diaper-change-before-or-after-feeding#post-403553 Fri, 16 Nov 2012 23:03:54 +0000 junebugmama 403553@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have always changed them every time they are wet/dirty. NO schedule, I just change immediately. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-diaper-change-before-or-after-feeding#post-403551 Fri, 16 Nov 2012 22:57:47 +0000 Periwinkle 403551@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@travelgirl1- it's amazing how many diapers we go through in a day!!!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-diaper-change-before-or-after-feeding#post-403549 Fri, 16 Nov 2012 22:56:53 +0000 Periwinkle 403549@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>So good to hear that it can be done all different ways. The problem we have is that he continues to poop throughout the feeding so we have another dirty diaper soon after the change. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-diaper-change-before-or-after-feeding#post-403517 Fri, 16 Nov 2012 22:05:57 +0000 betsyboop 403517@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Before, only because I want my LO to be comfortable while eating! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-diaper-change-before-or-after-feeding#post-403473 Fri, 16 Nov 2012 21:30:10 +0000 travelgirl1 403473@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Meggo5: I was so going to post this question today! Right now, I have to breast feed, then give her a bottle of pumped milk, then breast feed again - she has a poor latch so doing both. So I change her before the bottle to wake her up, but then feel like she'll probably dirty it before we finish the routine. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-diaper-change-before-or-after-feeding#post-403213 Fri, 16 Nov 2012 16:59:21 +0000 Mrsbells 403213@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Before. this way once she is full she can go right to sleep. </p> <p>When she was a newborn I would change her after because she would always poop while eating </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-diaper-change-before-or-after-feeding#post-403200 Fri, 16 Nov 2012 16:51:42 +0000 Beebug 403200@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>In between sides!</p> <p>She'd never get enough if I didn't do this, always falls asleep or gets lazy. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-diaper-change-before-or-after-feeding#post-402739 Fri, 16 Nov 2012 12:54:25 +0000 Running Elley 402739@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Before. Afterward he's so sleepy and easier to put down and if I change his diaper he's completely woken up and that's ruined. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-diaper-change-before-or-after-feeding#post-402735 Fri, 16 Nov 2012 12:52:21 +0000 Pink Champagne 402735@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Usually before... It helps wake him up, and he seems to have a hard time relaxing enough to nurse when he's wet.<br /> When DH gives him his bottle at our night feeding, he will wait until halfway through, because LO inevitably will poop right in the middle of the feeding! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-diaper-change-before-or-after-feeding#post-402528 Fri, 16 Nov 2012 11:40:12 +0000 pinkcupcake 402528@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I always did it before. She would almost always fall asleep while nursing when she was a NB, so I never wanted to risk waking her up. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-diaper-change-before-or-after-feeding#post-402520 Fri, 16 Nov 2012 11:36:57 +0000 Honeybee 402520@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I always did it before the bottle. I love seeing that milk drunk face once they finish eating, and a wet diaper always seems to interrupt that happy, sleepy feeling. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-diaper-change-before-or-after-feeding#post-402386 Fri, 16 Nov 2012 10:54:37 +0000 Lozza 402386@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@hilsy85: Agreed- if I want to make sure he keeps nursing, I'll do the diaper change in the middle to wake him up a bit. Once LO got better at nursing, or if I thought he didnt' really need the nursing session, we did it at the end because he always peed and/or pooped while nursing, and because when he got hungry it was easier to pop a boob in his mouth than to change an angry baby and then try to settle him to nurse. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-diaper-change-before-or-after-feeding#post-402357 Fri, 16 Nov 2012 10:46:26 +0000 hilsy85 402357@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Usually in between switching sides. It helps wake him up so he nurses better on the 2nd side. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-diaper-change-before-or-after-feeding#post-402349 Fri, 16 Nov 2012 10:43:58 +0000 Periwinkle 402349@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>The past few days I have tried to get in the habit of changing my little boy before a nursing session-- he always seems to comfy and relaxed afterwards and a cold diaper change makes him so unhappy. Granted, he is dirtying a new diaper in a matter of minutes (I am breastfeeding him and he has about 10 dirty diapers a day!) but I have found this to work well for us right now.</p> <p>What about you? </p>