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Checking toddler when asleep

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suiledonn · 21/02/2008 22:55

If you have a younger toddler (under 2) sleeping in a bed rather than a cot how often do you check on them once settled for the night?

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PortAndLemon · 21/02/2008 22:58

I don't now, but used to check on him once or twice.

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notnowbernard · 21/02/2008 22:59

DD1 was 18m when moved to a bed

Put one of those mesh barrier thing up to stop her falling out

Stair gate on bedroom door to stop her leaving the room if she woke up and we were asleep (didn't want her to 'roam alone'

Baby monitor to hear if she woke up

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artichokes · 21/02/2008 22:59

Can't sheck mine at all. The moment I stop into her room she senses it and is wide awake. She is the lightest sleeper known to man.

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notnowbernard · 21/02/2008 23:01

So no need to check, IYSWIM

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Flibbertyjibbet · 21/02/2008 23:02

I can't resist a peek if I go to the bathroom and before i go to bed.
Didn't use a bed guard as we borrowed on on holiday once and if he went to fall out of bed he just got stuck between the bedguard and the bed and took ages to wake us up shouting 'stuck'.
Much easier to hear a bump and then screaming if they fall out of bed, and after a few nights they don't fall out of bed anymore.
We don't have gates etc as they don't roam in the night they just come in our room after our alarm has gone off if at all.

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suiledonn · 21/02/2008 23:05

Just wondering because I suffered from anxiety quite badly after dd was born. We are co-sleeping and dd is sleeping really well these days so I am getting a few hours to myself in the evening and am really trying to ease off on the obsessive checking. Until a few months ago I used to go to bed with her but gradually got confident enough to leave her but would check her constantly. Even now I have to quell my instinct to check her every 15 minutes or so. She is sleeping in a kingsize bed with single bed against it so she is unlikely to fall out.

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notnowbernard · 21/02/2008 23:08

Glad things are getting a bit easier

I do think the older thery get the more vocal they are on waking.

They'll either cry, call out, come and find you (if no gate etc) or get themselves back off to sleep.

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suiledonn · 21/02/2008 23:11

She always calls for me when she wakes up although she is able to get out of bed by herself. I was just saying to dh that I wonder what I am checking on her for - if she is asleep then I don't need to keep watching her and if she is awake then we know about it. I suppose it is just a habit now. At least dh and I are spending time together again as things were not good between us for a while.