Parenting Toddlers (1-3) Support Group

I don't have any good advice about the potty training but my son used to wet the bed during the night too. He would wear the nappy (after a bit of a fight...) but do such big wees that it'd leak out the side and he'd get the bed wet anyway... I was going a bit crackers having to change the sheets so often so I basically cut down dramatically the amount of liquids he could have near to bed time. Now I give him his last milk, wait about half an hour take him for a wee, and (because I'm lazy and he's spoiled...) I still give him a third of a bottle to fall asleep to. Now he can usually hold that till morning. If I decide to get my act fully together I'll cut out that last milk. You're daughter is much younger so I'm not sure where you're at with night feeds, but maybe if you can start bit by bit cutting back liquids in the night that might help. And that way you won't have to try to find any more tricky ways to keep that nappy on - she sounds pretty determined to have it off!
(I'll try to remember to ask my mum about the potty training, supposedly I was a bizzare baby that potty trained at one so I'll ask her what she did with me).

My son did this around 18 months too, he was to talented at removing diapers, he'd pull them off through the open leg of shorts while he was wearing them! So, I put him in onesies with shorts or pants on top 24/7 until he forgot what he was doing! XOXOXOXO

onesies work here.

also... potty training is definitely up to the child's interest... but you can encourage the interest.

There are some cultures that do not use diapers- they use "elimination communication" and basically potty train from birth.
We don't do that here, but I understand it now that I learned about it.

My daughter is 16 months and we have been working on just the communicating part- making her aware of what she is doing in her diaper and then we change it right away... she has already taken interest in the potty in the bathroom... we stop there and point to it on the way to change her diaper- this creates a connection for her.

I am trying to wait- and do it slowly since we are due to have a new baby in the next few weeks... but just having the communication and connection to the potty is a great start.

so.. the ability is not age related.. it is based more on desire I think.

good luck to you.. and I had to put onesies on my girl.

OH... AND ALSO....
Huggies has pull-ups that have hidden tabs... so you can use it like a regular diaper, but really hard to figure out how to take it off because the tabs are so much different. It is like that for the night time pull ups and the normal pull ups. and the price is the same as the regular diapers (in my town, it is actually 50 cents cheaper for the pull ups)

hey! it's good news- she wants to be out of diapers- my daughter (17m) started saying, "pee pee" and walking to the gate where the bathroom is ( i always tell her i am going pee..i read that this can help them know what it is, then want to do it..)
we grabbed her baby toilet, ripped off the diaper as quick as a wink, put her on and..SHE PEED IN THE TOILET!!!!"
SO, get out the training potty, and give it a couple tries,..not to be gross but if you sit on the toilet while she is on hers, i read that if they hear you pee, it helps them release....lol!!!

Potty traing is definatly a good idea. You can buy a seat that goes on top of the big seat so that she can sit. Personally, I went through a phase with my middle child where I resorted to duct tape!!!

duct tape.. that is awesome

I have the seat that fits on the big seat.
I just cannot do the little potty... dumping the pee and poo after each use.. gross.

it may work better, but I am willing to try harder and have more patience with it.

use a potty chair my daughter is also to small for the big potty so we use one you can buy at walmart you have to wash it out but her feet touch the floor, adn it is " her " potty, also for the diaper at night use duct tape around her diaper. had a niece who did the same thing. good luck