u/manual84

2 year old protesting bedtime by taking off diaper and peeing herself

Daughter is 2 years 4 months, whip smart, hyper active, so verbal people usually assume she’s a year older. She was an amazing independent sleeper until a month ago when she started refusing naps at home (not at school, of course) and fighting bedtime like her life depends on it. She used to happily lay in bed playing with her stuffies and talking to herself until she fell asleep. Suddenly that changed and now she screams for us, throws everything out of bed, tries to reach for her monitor camera stand, yanks the art off the walls, takes off her sleep sack, pajamas, and diaper/pull up, and as of tonight, pees the bed. Basically she does what she has to do to get us to come back into the room.

We’ve tried zippy pajamas, sleep sack inside out — doesn’t matter, she can get them off.

She’s not potty trained (we’ve been doing a slow roll potty learning, so she does pee on the potty several times a day, but hasn’t officially done potty training) and sleeps in her crib, has never tried to climb out of it or anything too. It is very clearly happening because she is smart and knows exactly what to do to get us to come into her room.

Any advice? Other than duct taping her diaper on or staying with her however long it takes her to fall asleep?

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u/manual84 — 1 day ago