OH NO!

mysweetpeasWil&Wes wrote: Wil is starting the phase of taking off his diaper by himself...and guess what....he got into #2 today!! DH put him down for a nap and as I was doing chores around the house, I smelled this awful stench. So I go upstairs and open Wil's door to find him over by his dresser smearing poop all over his legs and on the wall!! YES ladies...I'm not kidding! So I put him in the shower and DH cleaned up the carpet. Anyhow, I need major advice on what to do about this. I bought a potty the other day just so that he could get used to seeing one in the house and pretending to sit on it, but I know he's not close to being ready for training. But is this a sign that he's getting a bit closer???? I had a friend who's DD did this and she had to duct tape her diapers shut...but it still didn't cure the problem. I guess she just finally grew out of it. Ughhhhhhhhhhhh !! It is sooooo gross. I tried to remain calm and not yell at him for what he did. I just told him that poopie is for the potty and that it was yucky. Did I do the right thing?

I need help, because I have a feeling this little problem isn't over...

My3LilMonkeys replied: Madison is a diaper remover and it drives me crazy!! If I forget to make sure she can't get to it at night (with either one piece jammies or a onesie) she'll take it off in the middle of the night....which means by morning EVERYTHING in her crib needs washed.

All I do at this point is make sure she can't get into it. But Wil is a little older so maybe he is trying to tell you he's ready for the potty!

mckayleesmom replied: Its a phase...eventually it passes. Mckaylee was the queen of this.....So disgusting. I tried everything and in the end...if she wanted in it...she was going to find a way.

Have you tried Pull ups? Mckaylee couldn't get those off for a while.....

Jamison'smama replied: You can also put the diapers on backwards--harder for them to figure out. If nothing else, you can put him in onesies all the time.

paradisemommy replied: make sure he always has pants on of some sort if not a onesie..

MyBlueEyedBabies replied: gross.....
I once found Katy and Matt painting her room once. I almost killed them both

As for stoping it. Onsies, backwards diaper, and overalls were what we did. Hope something keeps him clean for a while longer.

luvmykids replied: It's a normal thing, unfortunately This too shall pass

amymom replied: Oh I am hesitant to post this. But maybe he is ready to be potty trained. Two is definately not too young. I say this and it took me forever to train my son, but I waited and didn't push him. With my dd I read and listened to John Rosemond who believes that toilet training should be done between 18 and 24 months. (I know, I know some will argue with that BUT ... it is worth considering) I also believe that girls are easier to train than boys, but still my dd was completly toilet trained by about 20 months.

Rae-- here is a link from his article in today's paper:

Toilet training ~~ John Rosemond


Good Luck Rae!

mom2my2cuties replied:


I have a diaper remover too - although luckily mine thinks things in the diaper are just disgusting and gross and doesn't touch it just brings it to us.

I do know when she first started doing this I was in school - and came home to find my daugthers diaper covered in duct tape and packing tape Guess dad got tired of chasing a naked baby


That said - He might be ready to Potty train - Our girl wasn't and still isn't - she just started discovereing that it is gross a while ago and wants it anywhere but on her.

CantWait replied: No advice here as I haven't had to go through that problem, I did want to say though, that Anthony's daycare started potty training him at 21 months, and within weeks he was potty trained except for naps and nights. You could try him and see if he takes to it.

C&K*s Mommie replied: I agree, he may in be ready for pting. Our youngest has preferred to be nakie as a jaybird, ever since she was younger . Even taking clothes off in public. She has for the most part grown out of it, but she prefers to be nakie most of the time. We just go along with it, nothing wrong with it here at the house unless company is over. We have been halfway pting her for a while now. She is 29mos, and here at the house we are pting her, just not in public yet.

I would give the pting at home a good shot. He may not be too young after all.

mysweetpeasWil&Wes replied: Oh gosh...what if mommy isn't ready for PT?!! I thought I had at least another year! Well I may give it a shot. Thanks for the article and all the advice. I may try pull-ups or the backwards diaper trick. Keeping pants on him is probably wise too, because we usually have him in just a shirt and diaper for naps.

MyLuvBugs replied: Oh yucky!! I'm so sorry you had to deal with that. I wish I had some good advice, but it sounds like you've gotten it all already. Pull-ups/training pants are awesome. Hopefully, he will train quickly for you!!

My2Beauties replied: I was going to say keep button pants on him, not the ones he can just pull down on his own, even overalls and if he figures out how to get them down, while he's at home, put them on backwayds. Seriously! My friend's DS did this and she had to resort to this and he got so tired of trying to figure out how to take his pants off that it finally stopped!

C&K*s Mommie replied: I hear ya. Our kids advance far faster than we are ready for them too.

Nina J replied: I've always worried about this..I was so glad when Emily told me "Poo is yuck"

boyohboyohboy replied: my son started to do that right before his 2nd birthday, and we used overhauls so that he couldnt get to the diaper, but when he would go poopy we would make a big deal about it, and take the diaper and him and together we dumped it into the potty, and he liked to flush, then in a short time before his bath we put him on the toilet and then he would go, but not go into the bathroom on his own, and by the time he was 2 he was trained.

now i dont think i am going to be so lucky with the second one, but it wasnt hard at all with the first.
we kept the potty chair around but he prefered the soft seat of the toilet, he never really used the potty chair, we got a soft insert for the larger toilet he sat on and he had books in there.

but i would go for clothes he cant take off, what about one piece sleepers that zip up?

flirtycuddle replied: My dd started doing this at 15 months old and it drove me nuts. I tried pants on her and her being herself she just took them off. Onsies were the only way to keep the diaper on her but luckly if she did manage to get it off she just came to me and handed me a poppy diaper and held her nose. I didn't try potty traing her yet at that point cuz of our living situation.