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Anyone discovered the secret of keeping gloves on???

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PinkyBurgerhead · 20/01/2011 09:21

...because if you know it, I'd be thrilled to hear it! DD (1) rips off all warm attire and then cries - presumably because she is freezing.

I am considering duct tape.

Help!

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TotorosOcarina · 20/01/2011 09:23

I was considering abuying a long sleeved top and sewing mittens to the ends of the arms then putting it on under her coat, no way she could get them off then.

Galena · 20/01/2011 09:31

DD (21mo), bizarrely, keeps on the gloves with no separate fingers or thumbs - the ones which are just a 'bag' with elastic at the wrist. It's not that she CAN'T take them off - she does occasionally - but that she tends not to.

Once I discovered that I was SOOOO pleased! (plus they're much easier to put on!)

DuplicitousBitch · 20/01/2011 09:37

get a coat with fold over sleeves

lulalullabye · 20/01/2011 09:37

Yes, don't use gloves, use long thick socks. Pull them up past their elbows and then coat and they have diddly squat chance of getting them off. We went to New York with DD1 when she was 10mths old and it was -20 with wind chill, we resorted to socks and it worked

walesblackbird · 20/01/2011 09:39

The only thing that worked when mine were small were the all in one suits with fold over mitts.

Invariably two of mine were usually minus mittens and socks! They wouldn't keep those on either.

starfishmummy · 20/01/2011 09:41

at duct tape. We needed to keep DS's scratch mits on to stop him pulling his feeding tube out of his nose and I used to tape his mitts to his babygrow!!!

Earwigging · 20/01/2011 09:47

Second the socks idea, but pull them up over her sleeves and then put the coat on top so she can't get hold of them to pull them off!

Rhian82 · 20/01/2011 09:52

When DS was tiny, we used to tape scratch mittens to his tops with micropore tape!

Limelight · 20/01/2011 10:19

When DS was tiny, we used babygros with built in scratch mittens. By the time he was 1, he'd had definitely graduated into the world of gloves on a string! Clever Grandma knitted a pile and they seemed to stay on pretty effectively.

OhNoNotTheHoneyBabies · 20/01/2011 11:44

Have you tried long mittens that go up to the elbow? We have those for DS (21mo) and he seems to keep them on more than any other kind.

dinkystinky · 20/01/2011 11:46

DS2 rips off gloves/mittens etc with his teeth and disposes of them when we're not looking. Coats with fold over sleeves are the only things that work twith him.

GinGirl · 20/01/2011 11:51

16 month old will keep socks on as well. She holds her hand out for them! Only a thin pair that go over her coat and almost to her elbow but she takes everything else off.

upahill · 20/01/2011 11:54

No idea,
When mine where babies they wouldn't keep the socks, booties, gloves or hat on.

Now they are teenagers they walk round the house with their 'trapper' style hat on and have to be reminded to take it off!!

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PinkyBurgerhead · 20/01/2011 12:44

Thanks for the replies!

Yes, have tried gloves up to the elbows etc, but she uses her teeth. I have never seen coats with fold-over mittens, but actually I think I might just get hold of a cheapie fleece and sew mittens to the ends of the sleeves.

Will try the socks for today! Perhaps if I use long ones, I can join them together behind her back somehow...!

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