To Change or Not to Change?

[CraftyMom]

It' is nap time and everyone is sleeping soundly.

I just noticed a funny smell and realized someone has a poop! Would you wake them up to change them or wait until they wake up? Knowing that this will likely mean the end of nap for everyone?

We are an hour into nap

Also, the suspect is not prone to rash

[playground1]

No, I wouldn't.

[Unregistered]

Oh please not this thread again! This was another heated topic last year so before you get everyone riled up...Yes,go change them,quietly.

[CraftyMom]

Uh-oh, didn't realize it was a heated topic ::

Not trying to go there!

[NeedaVaca]

https://www.daycare.com/forum/showthread.php?t=64244&highlight=poop

[CraftyMom]

I decided to change him. He is laying quietly for now

I just read some of the other thread, not looking for a repeat I guess I was wondering out loud. They had a very busy morning and they all need their full nap

[NeedaVaca]

Good for you! You did the right thing

[playground1]

Sheesh, my drama meter is topped for today. I do have a question though. per state regulations, do you need to change them on a table or can you change them in bed?

See at work, we have the issue that we sleep on mats and with the older kids, we'd have to straight wake them up because lifting a sleeping 2 year old from the floor is very hard without waking them. And we can't change them in their beds, which is what I would do with my own kids.

[CraftyMom]

Not a table specifically, but a vinyl mat used only for that purpose that is disinfected after every use.

Easy enough, I scooted him over onto the changing mat, changed him, and scooted him back

[kitykids3]

I see you already handled it, but I would have said nope. There's no way I'm waking a sleeping kid if I don't have to. The poop usually waits at naptime.

[melilley]

I would change them. It ****s when it happens, but I feel bad if they sleep while they are pooey.

[Blackcat31]

I would change the diaper right away.

I don't care if it would wake the other kids... a poopy child has right to have his/her immediate needs taken care of immediately.

Some states have regulations stating this and some don't so it's important to abide by those rules/guidelines.

Check you state regulations.

[craftymissbeth]

I also would have changed them... while cursing LOUDLY inside my head

[NeedaVaca]

Sheesh, my drama meter is topped for today. I do have a question though. per state regulations, do you need to change them on a table or can you change them in bed?

See at work, we have the issue that we sleep on mats and with the older kids, we'd have to straight wake them up because lifting a sleeping 2 year old from the floor is very hard without waking them. And we can't change them in their beds, which is what I would do with my own kids.

So you don't change them because it would wake them?

[playground1]

So you don't change them because it would wake them?

"Sheesh, my drama meter is topped for today."