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Cot to bed, how do you stop them falling out?

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OzJo · 30/11/2004 00:51

Dear All,
Dd is 20 months and starting to get a little big for the travel cot she's slept in always. Hopefully we'll be moving next month so can introduce a bed....but how on earth do you stop them from falling out all the time? Or is it that you don't, and they learn from their falls. I'm tempted just to get a matress for the floor to start with. She sleeps all over the place in the cot, I'm sure she'd be falling out 5 times a night....grateful for any handy hints..

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beccaboo · 01/12/2004 22:43

We got a bed from Ikea, it's one that folds out as they grow, and comes with a rail that screws on and can be removed later. It's been fine.

Linnet · 01/12/2004 22:58

WE got a bed guard, took ages to find one for our dd1 as nobody in those days seemed to have them and I'm only talking 6 years ago. Now I see they are everywhere which is handy.

eidsvold · 01/12/2004 23:18

Oldiemum -

we only put dd into a bed as we had emigrated and did not take any furniture with us and no2 was due a few months after we moved. Dd would have been a month or so shy of her second birthday.

Tommy · 01/12/2004 23:21

We have a duvet on the floor next to the bed and most nights he falls out and lands quietly on the duvet - I think he was there all night last night

Levanna · 01/12/2004 23:29

DD1 moved into a bed at about 2.5 (would have been earlier, but ended up delayed for practical reasons). We use a pillow on the 'open' side and the only time she has fallen out was our first night here at our new house. She woke in the night, I was due any day so DH went in to settle her back down. Got in her bed to give her a cuddle, and I was woken sometime later by a bump. Ran (waddled) into DD1's room to find DH snoring soundly, sprawled comfortably on DD1's bed and poor little DD1 sat on the floor next to the bed looking dazed and confused! No damage done though. There must be some sort of internal safety and awareness type thing that prevents us from hurting ourselves? Do people often injure themselves when they fall out off bed whilst asleep? (Just out of interest as I know people who've injured themselves falling out of bed when awake, but not asleep!)

sparkler1 · 01/12/2004 23:33

Bedguard worked well from my dds too.

janeyjinglebops · 01/12/2004 23:34

We didn't bother with a bed guard. The bed is low and we put some soft quilts on floor for a few weeks. She fell out about 5 times in total - woke up each time but it wasn't a big problem.

Be prepared for the middle of the night visits and squeezing into bed next to you though!

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OzJo · 02/12/2004 08:01

Thanks again for the hints. I was wondering about the night/early morning wandering, stairgate across the door sounds fantastic. Dd has never been one to sleep in our bed so don't want to start now ( hard enough to sleep with Dp snoring and twitching).
The rolled up towel sounds good, plus plenty of padding on the floor just in case...we should be good to give it a go..

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giraffeski · 02/12/2004 13:21

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heymissytoe · 11/12/2004 00:45

My dd is only ten months so not an issue yet but you could try putting the mattress from the bed onto the floor and when he no longer rolls off it move back onto the bed base with padding to soften any falls. This is what I think I'll try with dd. Plus have gate on door to prevent any hall/ stairway wonderings.

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