What's everyone's routine for their 6month old?
We've been doing EC since birth and have managed to catch all her poos since 3months and wees when she wakes up from naps but wondering how everyone manages at night at this age ? She sleeps through from 8-5/6am but would sleep longer if she wasn't waking fidgeting and uncomfortable needing a poo she usually goes when I take her but this can go on for an hour or so sometimes and I'm worried im training her to hold it in and she'll get constipated from it ? She's also usually very wet in the morning unless I get up with her in the night to change her. Essentially, sleep isn't being disrupted by feeds, it seems to be needing the toilet that's waking her and I'd love to hear what other people have been doing overnight around this age x
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@Julianna oh thanks for this, sounds exactly like what we're doing now! Hopefully the early morning poos stop in a month or two then 😀
Heyy emily! I don’t EC in the night and he wakes up with a very heavy nappy - I did try nighttime ECing for a bit but found it a bit much for me! He used to need his morning poo at 5am for his morning. Seems to be slowly getting later (he’s 6 months now). I think naturally it just gets later, I don’t think you’re training her to hold it unnaturally ❤️
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At that age I would take my kiddo if she needed to poo (because she wouldn’t sleep if I didn’t take her) and eventually (within a month or two) she stopped needing to poo at night. Sometimes she would go back to sleep after we got up to poo, sometimes she was up for the day, especially if it was after 5am (I didn’t love this). We use a disposable overnight diaper for pees at night to prioritize sleep over nighttime EC.