The amount of pee that counts as a wet diaper is 4 to 6 tablespoons of pee.
Although the amount of pee can be less for newborns, especially when the newborn is urinating or peeing frequently.
For newborns, a wet diaper should contain an average of 4 to 6 tablespoons of pee.
The wetness of the diaper should be roughly equivalent to pouring 4 to 6 tablespoons of water into a dry diaper.
A newborns number of wet diapers also should generally match the number of days old the baby is for the first 4 to 5 days, after which the baby should begin to have 5 to 6 wet diapers a day.
For older babies that are over 6 weeks of age, the amount of pee can be greater, with some suggesting that the amount of urine in a wet diaper can be up to 8 tablespoons of pee.
Wet diapers for older babies will also be much heavier than a newborns wet diapers and they may also have less wet diapers, but they will be much wetter than a newborns diaper.
A good guideline for the amount of diapers for older babies is around 5 to 6 wet diapers per day.
What counts as a soiled diaper is a diaper that has been pooped in or has been both pooped and peed in.
Soiling a diaper mainly refers to a diaper that has been pooped in, although a soiled diaper can also be used to refer to a diaper that has been both pooped in and peed in.
Basically soiled diapers, contain a toddler's or baby's bodily waste, which can include poop or pee.
It's very important to change a poop diaper on a baby or toddler as soon as possible as the poop can lead to diaper rash and infections.
When the poop is combined with pee, then the ammonia from the pee when mixed with the poop can make a diaper rash much worse.
Newborns tend to poop or soil their diapers more often than older baby's and toddlers.
Newborns often poop every feeding and older baby's may only poop every few diapers.
Newborns also often poop multiple times a day and sometimes up to 10 times in the first 24 hours of their life.
After the first few weeks, many babies, especially babies who are breastfed might poop less frequently and sometimes only poop every few days or even once a week.
Formula fed babies often have firmer poop and may poop once a day.
And breastfed babies often have softer, more yellow seedy poop.
A newborn will also pee around 1 to 2 times in the first 24 hours, which will also increase as the newborn starts to feed more.
And by their first week of life, a baby should have at least 6 wet diapers a day, when property fed and hydrated.
If the baby has less than 6 wet diapers a day after the first week, it can be a sign that the baby is not getting enough to drink, and peeing up to 10 to 20 times a day is also normal for newborns.