Taking diapers off…

A diaper shirt has worked well for us – the ones that snap at the crotch – usually the snaps are too tough for them to undo themselves. 

I’ve heard doing a onesie backwards (so the snaps are out of her reach without serious effort). Have to say my only diaper removers have been during the daytime. Sorry! ((HUGS))

My little one did that also around when she turned two, and I would find her completely undressed and freezing in a wet bed in the morning!  It was aggravating to change those sheets, so you aren’t alone.  She definitely is old enough to be spoken to about the issue and have consequences for sure.  I also second the snap covers, and since the weather is cooler, footie pjs can be put on backwards which will eliminate that as well.  I don’t kow what kind of cloth you are using, but pins should be very hard for her to get off with a snap cover. 

I also don’t like the idea of waking kiddos up to go to the bathroom, but maybe she takes it off when she needs to go?  Maybe if you woke her up to take her potty before you went to bed that would help?  (If she will go back to sleep okay afterwards)

Best wishes:)

We had one dd who did this for quite a while before I engineered a solution.

I ended up making sure she was always in footed pajamas, the kind with a flap at the neck over the zipper closure. Then I took a small hair elastic (I was reluctant to use pins that close to her face/neck) and looped it through the small hole in the zipper pull, then wrapped it snugly around the flap, like a ponytail. Effective, safe, cheap. I don’t remember her ever howling about it or fussing with it after I told her ‘no’ and explained what I was doing. I also asked her why she was taking everything off every night, and even though she was a pretty advanced talker at that age (unlike dd #2 who grunted and pointed for way too long, imo) she wasn’t really sure why.

After the elastic band fix, it wasn’t an issue. I could even leave them on in the wash. However, once dd#2 started wearing those same jammies, I had to remove all the elastics since we didn’t need them and she kept just kept pulling and snapping herself with them. And screaming, of course, which was worse than the wet bed!

My grandson used to have to have his (disposable) diapers duct taped on too.

I’m just envisioning this with my baby girl right now.  At the moment, she doesn’t take diapers off – but she gets out of her sleepers….without undoing the snaps.   How she gets her body out of the head-hole without undoing anything, I can’t figure out.   My dh was helping me fold laundry, and he asked why there were sleepers in the laundry all buttoned up! 

My 2 year old is just starting to do this. All of our diapers ARE snap diapers and he just pulls them down! Maybe a sleep sac for naps? They make then up to 5t (with feet!) and they zip from top to bottom so the kids often can figure out how to unzip them :D. If you’re crafty you can make one easily enough.

I haven’t been on here in a while, but this post made me laugh (not at you misty, i know this isn’t fun). I do alot with the college girls at church and was just the other night telling them about my boys all doing this when they were younger, and I only wish that it was just with wet diapers! I was telling them that baby beds with smooth rails were much easier to clean that those with the bumpy, decorative ones 😉 With our twins, more than once we found them aiming into each others cribs – have no idea what sparked this idea, but they found it amusing. We made sure to always have clothing on them that was hard to get off, but that didn’t always stop them. Duct tape was helpful (on the disposables) – I learned that from a mom with triplets whose did the same. Needless to say, I was VERY glad when we got through that phase. Now I can laugh about it, but then…oh, it was miserable. Hang in there Misty, she won’t do it forever!