15 Month taking clothes and diaper off!!

[starcewick]

Here is the problem. MY 15 month old girl just has to have here diaper off even if it clean (I can understand if it dirty). If we take our eyes off her for more then 45 seconds (no joking) she will be naked in not time.

We have tried back to front dressing with zipper, buttons, and snaps. We have tried top and bottom pj's pinned to each other. This has happend three times today. It has progressed to her clothes now.

If anyone has any suggestions please help us out with them. Thanks a million.

Andrew [email protected]
Father of twins

Sorry - no tips - just sympathy. Our 19 month old is doing exactly the same (not every 45 seconds but as often as she remembers), only we haven't been nearly so inventive with the preventative measures! She actually took her nappy off yesterday and did a wee in the potty, which was amazing (though not yet repeated).
What's the weather like where you are? If it's nice, hang about outside (with a potty). She can take off her clothes as often as she wants and any accidents won't be too much of a disaster. You never know, maybe she'll get bored, once she's allowed to do it 100x more? Or get her a dolly with clothes that come off? Ours finds that one a bit frustrating but is getting better at it by the day.
Good luck anyway!

My first daughter did that too and my friend's daughter who is 2 enjoys taking her clothes off. I think it's just a happy phase that the kids go through realising they have a bit of control over their garments. I imagine it's more comfy without a nappy on too. If you can be cool about it and just let her be naked if she likes i think that'd be great. Don't worry. My big girl soon stopped and so did my friend's daughter.

Hi starcewick, my 2 and a half year old boy does exactly the same. He wanders around the house naked. I think, as someone else mentioned, it is a control over themselves thing.
The only time my son lets me get him dressed is when I say "are you going out now". Problem is now we have to take him out every couple of hours if we want him to keep his clothes on.

I don't think you can really stop this but perhaps offer distractions or alternatives when she is doing it. Our dd is doing the same except she is now starting to take off her dirty nappy and present it to us - no mishaps yet fortunately. At least it is warm enough for her to do it comfortably.

At night she is doing it to get attention before going to sleep and on waking which is a pain but have got her sleeping in just a bodysuit with poppers at the crotch and she has (yet) to undo them but I'm sure it won't be long.

She likes practising putting shorts on and off at the moment so I just let her play with some clothes over her normal ones. Similarly she plays with everyones' shoes but I consider this harmless enough to ignore, but praise when she gets it right.

I think it is best to just play along cooly with them in the hope that they reduce the undressing to more appropriate moments or when potty training but, as my ds didn't really do this, have no further experience of this "phase".

My daughter used to do this so ~I just put her in knickers and she was dry and clean straight away! Perhaps your DD is giving you a message, worth a try!

alibubbles - I wish my daughter had followed your little one. She started stripping off at about 16 months but wasn?t ready. We are in the middle of potty training now and it is slow - keep trying and leaving it as she isn?t ready and trying again a few weeks later - still nowhere, but she is only just turned two so not too bothered yet.
My little one stripped off in a flash like many others. I think it was a freedom thing - easier to move, climb around without clothes and esp. a big clumsy nappy. Also cooler - if i wasn?t so body conscious and worried about the neighbours, i would want to do it too!!. We put her in pull ups - harder to pull off and much slimmer so easier to move in. She now strips off down to her nappy but leaves her nappy on - at least avoids accidents on the carpets.
If you think it is an independence thing, try letting her have a say in what she wears - sounds silly but my dd loves choosing her clothes - I hold up two tops and she points to the one she fancies (also good opportunity to practise colour recognition).
It is irritating but in the good weather just leave her to it - unless it is in Tescos (been there, done that!)