Ok, so DD has learnt a new 'trick'...

[WSM]

As some of you may know my 14 month old DD is having a bit of trouble with nappy rash at the mo due to teething. The teething is also making her run a temp.

This morning I put her down to sleep under her duvet in just a nappy. BIG MISTAKE. I heard her crying and thought she was just fussing (as usual). She was still crying 5 mins later so I went in. Today my daughter mastered the art of removing her own nappy. The clean, pristine nappy was on the floor next to her cot. She was stood naked as the day she was born in a puddle of her own wee and diarrhoea (brought on by teething) She had managed to cover the sheets, the duvet, 2 of her cuddly toys, her hands, face, legs, lips (i dread to think!) and my clothes (i piced her up out of the cot instinctively) in wet green poo Have had to drop her in the bath, strip the room right down and chuck it all in the washing machine. She is fine but I feel like the worst mummy in the world ! Why did I have to learn the hard way ?!

Ive been there, you gasp and dont know where to begin do you! Ds had it all in his mouth too. He never went to bed after that without a babygrow on. Urghhhh

WSM - bad luck! My MIL tells the tale of the day my dh removed his nappy and then painted very carefully every bar of his cot in poo...twice!!! I think she found it funny the first time - not so the second!

Have you considered a sleeping bag?

And you're definitely not the worst mummy in the world!

She has a sleeping bag but knows how to unzip/unfasten them and climb out !

She has a sleeping bag but knows how to unzip/unfasten them and climb out !

She has a sleeping bag but knows how to unzip/unfasten them and climb out !

yuk, poor you faced with all that. Please don't blame yourself - it was probably a game for her that went wrong.

dd used to do the same by removing her sleepsuit and nappy so she spent the summer sleeping in just a body suit (crotch poppers are more difficult to undo). Later she asked for pyjamas but has not removed them in bed recently. She loves undressing herself elsewhere though and still won't potty train !

My 15month old removes her nappy, can't leave her for five minutes without some sort clothing covering it... was starting to wonder if pull-ups were the answer but in the ned oppted to always putting pj bottoms on her.

oh dear

Yuk

Pull-ups can be useful as a solution to this problem, especially if you can't put any clothes on them. But some children do manage to pull them down so not foolproof.

Re the sleeping bag, how about fastening the zip to the bottom of the bag with a safety pin? If she's very determined though, that could be a bit risky because she might manage to open the pin. Difficult one.

Oh poor you! I can sympathise. My 18 month old DD had a tummy bug a couple of weekends ago, when we had friends staying with us. We were out on the roof top gardens at the apartment having lunch - wine, beer, the works. DD was asleep but had obviouls ydone a dirty nappy when she woke up. I lifted her up and she was covered, as was her clothes and pushchair. Dh and me quickly whisked her inside, stripped her, into the bath and clothes washed, and Dh cleaned up the pushchair as I got changed too. Luckily I think our friends were spared most of it as I have never moved so quickly.

DD can also remove a nappy; that's why we now use pull ups - she can't quite get them down yet!

The joys of being a mummy, eh?!

She is very dextrous and so I wouldn't trust her (or me) with a safety pin. I don't think she's figured out how to undo her sleepsuit but she does take pj bottoms off if wearing 'big girl' ones (ie proper top & bottom pjs). So, sleepsuits it is !

Sorry but pull ups don't stop the problem ! If anything a dirty pull up is messier if they try to remove it themselves .... We use the Pampers ones because if I or ds need the loo when we are out and about she invariably wants to try too (which I prefer to encourage) and they are less hassle. Anyone else think they are overpriced ?

Definitely expensive but aren't all disposable nappies anyway?

I suppose the counter arguement is that we should all use reusables though.

Have you tried fastening them on backwards? Learnt this tip from the nursery staff when DD thought it was a funny trick to remove hers.

That's a good idea. Are they the right shape though ?

We did it for at least a couple of months. The nursery do it all the time. Seems to work just as well!

Nooooo! What a horrible morning for you, WSM. Another idea is to put a pair of knickers right over the nappy. The elastic tends to be close fitting and it might be more of a barrier. Putting a sleepsuit or sleeping bag on back-to-front could confound her too - temporarily!

Have you tried using the wraps supplied to go over cloth nappies? Motherease make some (also sold under the name of Popolino) which do up with poppers and there is no way DS (18mths) could undo them. No reason why they couldn't go over a disposable (or you could switch to lovely cloth nappies ). Just get 3 or 4 and wash them with normal whites.

We got our from www.thenappylady.co.uk but Waitrose also sell the Motherease wraps and plenty of other web suppliers.

I do think pull ups are VERY overpriced, but I guess it is true that all of the disposables are..at 14 months I was ready to try potty training mine DD and it worked out just fine. I have noted in another thread that we spent a full week together, her totally naked on the bottom and I took her potty with her all over the house (where ever we were playing) and I did alot of clapping and screaming when she would wee in the potty. The first few times I had to scoop her up and put her on it when she started to wee, but then she got the hang of it. I kept her in a diaper at night for several more years and didn't bother with training her at night. If she did wet her diaper during the night, she would take it off herself, wake me and hand it to me (which I really liked). She never wanted to lay in it--I am sure your DD just wants to be naked and comfortable, right?

Putting panties on over them and getting the cloth wraps night help or they really might piss her off further. If she can understand you, can you just ask her to please keep them on or to tell you if you she is uncomfortable in them? (to tight, whatever) It might just be the teething thing that is making her so uncomfortable, she might have had gas--you know what it feels like if you do have gas and you have tight panties around your waist? Anyway, my sympathies for you WSM! I do understand and wish you speedy resolution! We loved nice, warm oatmeal baths at our house, maybe a nice bath with Baking Soda would soothe her tonight.