How to stop my two year old from taking off his diaper in bed?

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asked Jul 25, 2020 in Toddler/Preschooler by Avelpe (310 points)
How to stop my two year old from taking off his diaper in bed?

My 2 year old son is not potty trained and wears diapers in the day and night and every night he keeps taking his diaper off around 2:00 AM

I go into his room to check on him and he always takes his diaper off and the diaper is laying on the floor next to his crib.

The diaper is clean and dry but if i don't put the diaper back on him at night he will pee and poop in the crib.

He sometimes takes the diaper off in the day as well when we're at home and then he'll pee in his pants.

A few days ago he was sitting on the couch watching TV and then when I come in  the living room to check on him he is wetting his pants.

I thought the diaper he had on was leaking because he flooded it.

But nope.

I checked his pants and he had no diaper on.

He had removed his diaper again.

He doesn't want to use the toilet for either pee or poop but takes the diaper off when I'm not looking.

How can I keep my 2 year old boys diaper on him at night and in the day?

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answered Jul 25, 2020 by Gracy (149,380 points)
To stop your 2 year old from taking his diaper off in bed or at any other time you can use some clear packing tape to wrap completely around his diaper.

The packing tape will make it more difficult for him to remove his diaper since the tabs on the diaper are Velcro and are easily pulled off.

But the addition of the packing tape will make it harder for him to remove the diaper.

When I use packing tape on my 2 year olds diaper I have to use scissors to cut the packing tape off of his diaper so he and even myself have a hard time remove the tape.

My 2 year old would take his diaper off too during the night and yes like yours he would take the diaper off in the day without me noticing and then pee his pants.

He still is not ready to potty train either so I had to resort to using packing tape.

I tried putting a belt on his pants and for awhile it worked but he still managed to eventually figure out how to remove the belt and then removed his diaper again.

He would make sure I wasn't looking and then open his pants and then undo the tabs on the diaper and then pull the diaper out of his pants and throw it behind something such as the couch, chair etc.

He could then button his pants back up but sometimes he would leave the zipper undone because not all the time could he manage the zipper.

So I had to resort to using packing tape around his diaper and so far he has kept the diaper on and no more wet pants.

Sometime a kid is ready to potty train when they remove diapers but it's not always a sure sign they are ready.

I tried toilet training my 2 year old when he too his diaper off but it didn't work so I just kept him in diapers and he probably will be wearing diapers until at least 4 years old like his older brother did.

Eventually they will stop trying to remove the diaper.

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