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Adventurous baby

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Bronze · 08/06/2004 10:55

Just heard a loud thump from the other room wher I thought my 14 month ols was napping. He had climbed out of his cot (how?) and then climbed onto the changing table (how?) from which h fell off. Poor thing was very shocked and had four sore places on his tongue where he had bitten it.
Anyone got any advice as to how to stop him climbing out, hes a bit young to reason with.

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marialuisa · 08/06/2004 11:01

My cousin's DS was much the same, she confessed that they put a cat net over the top of the cot to stop him getting out...This was after he managed to get out of his cot and over the stairgate at his door, down the stairs an into the kitchen, where they found him asleep with the fridge door wide open the next morning. They hadn't heard a thing. He was 16 months at the time!

sandyballs · 08/06/2004 11:59

Both my DDs were like this Bronze - we had to put them into beds at a very young age to stop them hurting themselves. I remember putting them to bed one evening and sitting in the garden with DH and we heard a commotion at the window. They had piled all their toys up so that could climb onto the bedroom windowsill, then somehow shimmied up the glass to the small open window and were trying to get out of it! This was at about 14 months (they're twins). None of my baby group friends could believe it when I went round closing all their small upstairs windows when we visited!

gscrym · 08/06/2004 12:13

I've been tempted by industrial velcro on the sleep suit.
Can the base of his cot go down any further? My ds climbed out of his cot and got down the stairs at my dads. My dad had only went downstairs to get a paper.
Is this just a boy thing. None of my friends with DD's seem to have the climbing problem.

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Bronze · 08/06/2004 12:22

well I'm glad I'm not the only one. I think I my start taking out all his toys from his cot so that he has nothing to stand on. Th window in his room is already tied shut outof interest does anyone know where apart from ikea i can get those window locks that mean you can have th window slightly open. I dont want it permanently shut in this weather.
I'm also a little scared as we cant fit a stairate to the top of out stairs, we dont normally let him run around up there but it looks like hes taken that into his own hands (wondering whether the dog could be trained to let me know if the boy escapes)
And they talk about babyproofing a house

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Galaxy · 08/06/2004 12:29

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sandyballs · 08/06/2004 13:36

Can you not fit the stairgate in the doorway of his room Bronze. That's what we did for a while, until they vaulted over it!

GillW · 08/06/2004 17:00

We just took the "we can't stop him climbing out so we'll remove the necessity to climb" approach and took down the stairgates and put ds into a bed at 14 months because ds simply wouldn't stay in a cot any more.

zaphod · 08/06/2004 22:47

You can buy a contact alarm for his bedroom door. This is two small bits of plastic, one for the door and one for the jamb. When the alarm is on if the contact between the two is broken, ie, when the door is opened, a loud alarm sounds. We had to get one of these for the bathroom as ds kept trying to climb headfirst into the toilet,and we were afraid he'd drown. Any big DIY shop should have them. It's battery operated, so its simple to install.

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