Hi

I am being driven to distraction by my 2yo DS who, having worked out how to do it, keeps taking his (disposable)nappy off.

He undoes the snaps on singlet/body suits. I have tried putting another one on backwards over the top and he just pulls it down or takes it off. Short of dressing him in overalls I can't think of anything else to stop him. Does anyone have any suggestions??

Thanks

Ugh. We had this problem too- luckily body suits worked for us!!

I know a few people who have gone down the gaffa tape route- seriously!!

Hmm, put it on backwards and put duct tape over the top

What about pull ups? Would he bother tryint to take those off?

Also, do you react to him when he does it? When my DD used to do it I was reacting to her, and once I just put it back on and ignored her, she pretty much stopped doing it.

All the best!
Sam

We do the duct tape in this house. B was taking the nappy off at nap time as a way of getting out of having a nap but was then sitting on the bed and doing a wee. That was bearable until the day that a poo happened ......

I *heart* duct tape

overalls - but they have to be ones WITHOUT side snaps LOL took rory 1 day to work out how to get in the side and undo her nappy INSIDE the overalls

I resorted to Cloth nappies with pins with DS. He could undo his nappy and it only took him a week to learn to undo overalls.

DD has just started doing this- and I am thinking I may have to do the same with her.

*snap* We have the same problem with DS, we put some of my older DS's jocks on over the top of his nappy. He is more interested in the picture of Bob the Builder or Thomas on 'his' jocks rather than taking his nappy off. Its worked for us for the past week anyway!!!!!!!!

When Jess did that at 18mths or thereabouts I put those towelling training pants over the top and that seemed to stop her.

OMG I was just coming here to ask the same question and first thing is see is this thread, ive didnt have this with DS but my DD today has just done it, when I put her in for her nap she was making a real racket which is nothing new but when i went to check on her she was jumping up and down in her cot out of her sleeping bag [which zips downwards} pants off and nappy in the middle of the floor.
So its quite common i guess then, so will try the toweling pants over the top of the nappy tonight and see how that goes, and if all else false out with the tape tomorrow.
The joys of parenting, my DS was in a bed by now and never played up but DD is proving to be a real handful. So much for girls being easier
Keep the ideas coming ladies, ill be watching constantly for more ideas.
big-mummy

Definately try the duct tape - it worked for us! DS finally got bored and it only took a month before he forgot about taking off the nappy!

Another one that used duct tape here. And after a while he forgot about it and was then toilet training.

we tried: nappy on backwards; bonds suits - they couldnt figure out the snaps at first; zip up bag on backwards; pinning with the nappy pin the tops to bottoms; and tape. Mostly used all the above in combination, until they found the next thing to get in to

good luck with it all

I had this exact problem with my daughter. I put her in one of those swimming suits with a zip and put the zip at the back. (you can sometimes buy them with a zip at the back-if not just put it on backwards). This worked a treat and after a few wears of this, she forgot about trying to get the nappy off. If it's cold, you can put some long sleeves underneath or over the top. It's much easier than gaffa tape!j Good luck.

Hi,

I am having the problem of ds putting his hand down his nappy after he's pooed and have resorted to putting him back into the grobag type of sleeping bags for day and night time sleeps, works a treat.

Vickix

As soon as my DS started doing this, i just jumped straight into toilet training, as i thought this was a sign for it, and we haven't looked back. Fortunately for us, he was toilet trained in under 2 weeks, and only had a few accidents in that time, but i know that is not the case for everyone.

LOL i have heard of people using the duct tape too!
Hope it works out for you