To let toddler sleep in his buggy?

[Brokenbiscuits43]

Currently on our first holiday with DS and having difficulties with the sleeping arrangements.

DS isn’t a great sleeper at home. Will sleep in his bed for a while but prefers to co-sleep.

As DS is under 2 (for a few more weeks), he is considered an infant, so the hotel have provided a travel cot instead of a bed for him.

He is flatly refusing to settle in the travel cot (screaming / crying) until he is taken out. I’d normally just stick him in the big bed between me & DP, but it’s two singles pushed together and the gap between them grows every time someone moves, so I’m worried that DS would end up falling down between the two. I’ve been trying to settle him on my other side, but he just keeps squirming off the bed, and I’m worried that if he does fall asleep there, there’s nothing to stop him rolling out in his sleep onto the hard, tiled floor. I can’t see any viable way to rearrange the furniture to have a bed up against a wall.

We have got a lightweight folding buggy that lies almost flat. It’s got a 5 point harness. Is it safe / ok for DS to sleep in the buggy overnight? I’ve got a selection of blankets to make sure he’s not too hot or cold, and he’s got a clip-on motion / breathing monitor (because I’m generally quite anxious about sleep safety). I would have the buggy right next to my bed.

I hate doing anything that goes against the safe sleep guidelines, but are they just for smaller babies? He’s nearly 2 now.

I’m absolutely exhausted, having had less than 2 hours sleep last night, and I really need to sleep, but obviously DS’s safety is my top priority.

AIBU? Can he sleep in the buggy?

Or has anyone else got any other suggestions for a tired mum?

Furrbabymama87

Don't. A child died sleeping like this.
on holiday. The family woke up, the pram had tipped up and he'd suffocated under the hood.”

A buggy between the bed and the wall really isn’t going to fall over.

Cot mattress on the bed between the adult pillows at the top? He won’t fall down the gap then!

Thanks all. I’ve managed to get the mattress into a space on the floor and DS is finally starting to look a bit less hyper. Hoping I can cuddle him to sleep soon.

Not the most luxurious start to a holiday, but hey, whatever works! I’ll speak to reception tomorrow and see what they can sort for us.

@FTEngineerM now that is a clever idea!

If the cotmattress isn’t big enough for the floor and lying across the two single beds isn’t an option can you get an air bed from anywhere? Or even a lilo to use for the floor?

Have you asked if moving to a room with another single bed or sofa bed is an option?

Ask for a room with a proper bed.
Mattress on the floor
In buggy and secured so it can't roll or tip over.

We had this exact issue on holiday - I rang housekeeping and asked them to make the bed with king sized sheets so that the bed didn’t come apart

As long as it doesn’t tip over? Can you wedge it so it can’t tip if he wriggles?

Also if he’s strapped in what happens when he wants to roll over? Won’t he wake and scream the place down?

I can't believe you are using motion monitors on a toddler ! My concern would be the buggy clips would be uncomfortable.

When Dc1 was little I put cot against wall, bed up against it and used cot as a bed guard and I slept the other side. Could you do something like that? Or ask for a spare bed /put mattress on the floor.

If you need to of course let him sleep in the buggy. However I’d go to reception and explain you booked a double room and need a double bed. They may be able to move you to a more suitable room. It’s worth asking nicely 🙂

@MrsPelligrinoPetrichor

Of course.

I recall over 40 years ago our 9 month old sleeping in her almost flat buggy on a glassed in balcony of a hotel when we had had problems finding a place to stay!, she was fine for a few nights.