To wonder how the actual fuck to stop my son?!

[forwhatyouare]

My 11 month old (the size of a tiny 6 month old), has just climbed out of his cot and fallen!

What am I suppose to do?! He doesn't usually go in there, only with a few toys whilst I get some bits done upstairs. We co-sleep at night, thank goodness.

What am I suppose to do now? We were thinking of a transition to his cot after age 1 but not sure now 

He's screamed but he seems fine, just pissed off as usual to be anywhere but joint at the hip with me.

Scary stuff. How am I suppose to stop him?

[Stonebake]

Oh soy that’s rough re stair gates! She must be a genius though - adults have been properly stumped by my stair gate before now.

[Bananasinpyjamas11]

Buy one with lower rails. Or Get a mattress on the floor. Try a sleep sack. Baby proof the whole room. Remove any corded blinds. Lock windows. Put a gate on. You can get tall ones!

Also, put a hoodini strap or similar on the buggy or car seat straps if they start putting their arms out of the 5 way straps.

It’s fine, just another phase! Also, I wouldn’t leave them unattended awake for a while. Better to have a playpen or similar downstairs and gated bedroom upstairs, so you can always keep an eye whatever you are doing.

[Canshopwillshop]

My DD was like this. She would throw her sippy cup and favourite teddy over the bars first then scale the cot then do the same with the stair gate before toddling triumphantly into our bedroom.

[gamerchick]

Once they start climbing out it's easier to just take the side off or replace with a bed. It's just not worth the aggro.

[SoyDora]

Haha Stonebake she’s certainly no genius, just has some Houdini like qualities! She’s 4 now and still shows me how to open gates that I can’t figure out!

[Andtheresaw]

My youngest jumped out of the cot, which was against the wall behind the door with the foot of the cot up to the doorframe.
I thought it was a one off and went to put her back in. In the time it took me to take 2 steps backwards to turn off a lamp she'd jumped up, basically done a handspring (a very untidy one) over the end of the cot, and was standing laughing between me and the door.
She was 10 months old.
I made her a nest on the floor for that night and then put her in a little bed from then on.
When they have had enough of the cot that's it: if you persevere he'll be jumping out all the time until he does injure himself OP. Gate on the outside of the door. It's all you can do.

[ratspeaker]

Two of mine learned how to climb out of a cot around that age.
We ended up just putting the mattress on the floor, much safer.

[Thesearmsofmine]

Did he climb on toys to get out if he had them in there?

[GreenDinosaur]

My toddler can open the stair gate but the evil MIL can't so we are keeping it up!

[Allthewaves]

All mine scaled the cot before a year. We moved to a travel cot then toddler bed

[Seniorschoolmum]

You have an escape artist. . I had one of those.

Put a secure lock on the cat flap,think about stair gates if you haven’t already got them, and I put thick yoga mats under my ds cot just in case.

[EyUpOurKid]

We put DS in a travel cot from about 10 months as he could climb the solid cot bars and escape. The soft sides on a travel cot made it impossible for him (till he was taller!) We just bought a really nice quality thick mattress for it. Solved the problem.

[paxillin]

I did at times wish cots came with a lid.

[Toddlerteaplease]

A friend of mines son learned how to undo the drops ids in his cot and climbed out.

[WindDoesNotBreakTheBendyTree]

Oh god DD did this. She'd get her babygrow off so her little bare feet could get some traction. She's still bloody minded a determined young woman.

Sorry, OP the bad news is the days of plonking in the cot are over. I'd just try to make his room as safe as possible. Can he get over stairgates?

[Cuddlykitten123]

Straight into a floor bed?

[HollowTalk]

My son did it by somersaulting out - he pulled himself up on the bars and then did a kind of head-over-heels movement to get out. When they are determined, they will find a way! He broke his wrist doing it, though.

[Threeminis]

I had to put my ds in a toddler bed at this age. He climbed out a few times and on the last occasion he chipped his tooth on a toy lying on the floor.
I put a gate on his door and it took a few weeks for him to stay in his bed but was worth it for my peace of mind.

[IWantMyHatBack]

Mind could do this at about 9 months while wearing a grobag. The bugger couldn't crawl or sit up but he could drag himself out of the cot.

Childproof the room and mattress on the floor, or just take the side off the cot.

Dog gate on the door (they are higher).

good luck

[RJnomore1]

Grobag did nothing to stop my dd2 climbing. She did have to shuffle when she got out though.

Mattress on floor so there's no where else to fall.

[Shockers]

After several escapes, we put a cat net over DS2’s cot. The first night, I had to lay on the floor next to him, holding his hand through the bars of his cot whilst he dropped off. Early the next morning, I heard a squawk and found him trapped between the outside of his cot, and the net- like an orange in a bag.

We ditched the net and bought a toddler bed and two stair gates for the door, one above the other, as he could vault the lower one.

He was 11 months; I was permanently exhausted!

[Shockers]

Interestingly though, he slept much better in the bed than he had in his cot.

[silkpyjamasallday]

We coslept with DD and the cot was clearly never going to be an option (very mobile and a climber so I didn't bother trying), so we moved her into a single size mattress on the floor in her own room at 13 months with foam along the edges so she couldn't fall out. It's great and she has never got out of bed to play with toys in the night, it's easy to snuggle up with them until they fall asleep then you can roll away with no issues. We had a stair gate, but with a monitor we could go to her quickly enough that she rarely bothered to get up out of bed to find us.

[Exochorda]

Mine both did that at the same age. We tried for a while with the side of the cot removed but quickly gave up and just got a bed.
I recommend you get a double bed by the way. Works much better when bed hopping/ co-sleeping. We bought a single bed for DC1 at first but ended up with double as they grew older. DC2 already had a double bed in the room.

[81Byerley]

I met someone whose 8 month old climbed out of a window and was found watching motorway traffic through a fence about a quarter of a mile away. They'd just moved to a new estate and the garden fences hadn't been put up. They'd thought she was asleep in her cot. They said the window sills were low, and they lived in a bungalow. Obviously the architect hadn't got children....