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| Written by OHmommy | |
| Tuesday, 10 November 2009 00:00 | |
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I've lost sleep over it questioning the high heavens above me, "Why? Why me?" Unable to focus on anything during the day, as my mind is consumed with possible solutions, I curse myself because everything I've tried thus far has failed.
I did find the industrial strength electrical tape today and for a second thought about wrapping it around the toddler not once, but twice, with just enough wiggle room but not enough so that she could slip out. My husband thought it was a brilliant idea, "I would wrap it around three times. She's a feisty little banshee." I couldn't bring myself to do it. Instead, I kissed her good night and fell to my knees ready to speak in tongues in exchange for an answer. "She's stubborn. She's opinionated. What am I supposed to do with her? She refuses to listen to me."
Every night, some time in between midnight and last call, Fifi manages to take off her dry diaper and toss it on her bedroom floor. She has been "potty trained" since before her second birthday (just wearing a diaper for sleep) and now nearing her third birthday she has announced that "Deer are bugs in da diaper. It feels eww at night." Words like those are what sane mothers of toddlers yearn to hear as they establish that the child is truly ready to be diaper free.
Only, not so much for me. Not after pleading with her in the darkness, for eight consecutive nights in a row, as I strip the wet sheets off her bed. I throw down a beach towel over her plastic mattress cover and place her on the potty just before kissing her goodnight for the second time. "I no like da diaper, Mama." But. She wakes up wet again. Which, for all you non-parents reading, results in washing two sets of sheets once a day for eight days in a row and makes wrapping electrical tape around a diaper completely a legit solution. We've tried extra layers to make it more difficult... failed. We've managed her drinking juice problem for hours before bed.... failed. We've placed her on the potty before bed time... failed. We've bribed her with things... failed.
I'm too cheap to splurge on pull-ups. I'm not mean enough to tape a diaper on her. I'm not sane enough to think of a solution.
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| Last Updated on Monday, 09 November 2009 21:55 |
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Good luck!
I would maybe go a night and not wake her up to see how that goes. But she is a strong willed girl. I have one of those and I think the Feenster might have her beat.
She is adorable though, you don't know how many times the other day I wanted to borrow her...LOL. Especially when I first saw her, she was giggling and hiding in the chair. I asked her if she was hiding from me and she told she was because she was shy.
What about some plastic pants/undies over the diaper? Or just over some underpants, so at least then, you are just washing wet undies?
SHE STILL NEEDS THE DIAPER is what I scream out loud each night. She needs it for another 6 months or so until her bladder catches up.
So, maybe the plastic pants over a diaper would help?
My 4year old has night trained herself no problems.
My 6year old still wears a nighttime pull up to bed because she still floods the bed at night. I ended up calling in a local continence service. They suggested 'wee mats' a bit like this one - bedazzledbedmats.com/.../...
Now when my daughter takes her pull up off and wets the bed we usually only have to slip out the wee mat and put a clean one in.
We also got plastic mattress protectors, plastic pillow protectors and a plastic doona/duvet protector.
I wish you luck.
My husbands family has a history of bedwetting through to 18-20yo. The trigger that reminds you to wake up develops late in his family.
At least she isn't a boy, they tend to pee up, soaking the top covers and the bottom sheets as well.
We also for a while when she was in just undies put her potty in her bedroom with her and left a night light on. She would get up go on the potty and go back to bed.
I hope you get it worked out, I remember having to wash sheets at least once, sometimes twice a day. It sucked.
Seriously though, getting through that particular transition has it's challenges. It's hard to believe that they will one day be dry. Get some of those quick change mats - they go on top of the sheet, soft on top and impermeable on the bottom. You just take it out and put down a new one. You little one won't have time to fully wake up and enjoy all the attention seh gets from having the complete bed changed. Those got me through the worst of it.
Let us know how it goes!
One day at our pediatricians office we had forgot to remove the evidence of us taping our child's diaper. When the doctor entered, we felt shamed, she then laughed hysterically. She stated it's not hurting him and it's solving the problem then it is genius! Best of all she said she had seen it before and has even suggested it.
Good luck trying to figure out the best solution for you...but I won't think any less of you if you change your mind regarding the tape
1. Let her wear panties & put the diaper on over them. Since she's kind of precocious & might understand, tell her that you know she's a big girl and she's ready to wear her big-girl panties to bed, but you're just putting the diaper on over it "just in case" she has an accident. If that works, then yes, you'll likely have to toss some wet undies in the wash the next morning, but that's easier than washing sheets.
2. Get the old-school plastic training pants. She'll (hopefully) think they're panties & won't take them off. And they're waterproof. Score. I think you can even put stickers on the outside of them. For extra bribing purposes. :-)
Good luck!
I like Marci's comment about putting the diaper on backwards. That might work. I know that gdiapers put the tabs on the back so they're harder to take off.
If not that, I agree with the plastic pants.
OR, will she wear some of the washable, reusable diapers that feel more like underwear?
Finally - to make your life a little easier, double make the bed - on top of the sheet, put another mattress cover and another sheet. That way, at least you don't have to make the bed each time you strip it!
Good luck.
We've always used the pull ups at night but those may just be easier for her to take off. I just don't know.
Bribe her?
If she keeps her diaper on all night she gets a special surprise?
I just don't know. Good luck!
Our problem was the OTHER bodily function. It was horrible and disgusting and had me in tears.
This same daughter is, to this day, my little hellcat.
Just last night at 3 am, he waddled down to my room crying, went to my potty and peed then ran up to his room (why he didn't use the bathroom up there is beyond me) and insisted on putting a dry diaper on.
He does not like the wet ones anymore.
Sooo frustrating since my 6 yr old night trained himself the same week he was potty trained.
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She's so cute though!
Feeling you. That's NO fun!
Same problem here. Potty trained before two, accident free at night for 6 months, then... every night.... sigh.
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