How often do yochange disposable nappies?

Out of curiosity, how often do you change disposable nappies - or in other words, how long does it take them to get wet through? I find they last a lot longer than cloth ones (obviously) but when Jacob was sick a while back and I called healthline the nurse asked when he'd last had a wet nappy. He was in a disposable and had had a change at 9am, and it was about 2pm, and she was a bit shocked? But given that my cloth ones last three hours, I wouldn't have thought five hours was disgraceful for a sposie (I felt a bit bad!), and was just a bit curious about what the norm is?

ETA Excuse the spelling in the title, apparently I can't type!

Edited by Hopes

DS will go through approx 4 per day so he'd have it changed approx every 4 hours from 7am, more if he's been drinking a lot or has more than one dirty nappy.

DD gets hers changed at every feed, so every 3 hours from 7am and then if she has a dirty nappy obviously it would get changed.

Our son gets his nappy changed before each feed (and as others have said of the nappy is soiled he'll get changed then too), so I'd change the nappy every three - four hours during the day and up to nine hours at night (if he sleeps through the night). Obviously if babies have nappy rash or anything like that, they would be changed more often. Do what you feel is right and ignore everyone else. As the old saying goes "mum knows best" and you know what's best for your child.

I dont think 5 hours is a long time... the vast majority of kidlets 6 months plus (nearly all I would think) would sleep through the night without getting changed and that would be over 10 hours! DD goes 7pm to 630am without a change...

During the day unless it is dirty I change her after each nap so at least 4 times between 630am and 630pm, when bath time starts.

We put nappy on in morning, before midday nap and before bed. Also if a poo.

She'll be in one overnight from when she has her bath at 6pm till 6/7am the next day then its when ever it needs changing. When we are out and about I will change her into a clean nappy before going home as she sits better in the car seat.

btw - after going swimming with a normal disposable on they can hold a huge amount of liquid.

Change at every poo and apart from that probably every 4ish hours? Goes from 6.30pm till 7am overnight so I wouldn't have thought 5 hours was bad.....

I agree Bizzy, it would be so awful to run/sit/play in a really full nappy.

Both of my kids sleep through the night but during the day they are drinking a lot, whereas overnight night they aren't getting extra fluids.

I will often do the nappy squeeze and change it if it feels like its getting bulky. Some days DS will go through only 4, other days 5 or 6 as he's a big water drinker.