1 YO banging head on side of cot when sleeping.

[missbatesxo]

Hi,

my 1YO moves around a lot in the night (as all babies do) and often wakes up with a small bruise on either side of her forehead from bumping it on the cot rails in the night.
She has slept through since 3MO and it never disrupts her.

I am obviously aware cot bumpers are a massive NO so she has never had one but I am just wondering if anyone has any ideas to make this safer for her? Anything I can think of putting on the spindles she could remove.

thanks x

Only just turned one or nearly two?

Maybe it’s nearly time for a bed. We moved our son into a toddler bed at probably around 16 months as he was bumping into the sides and it was waking him up. He slept much better in a bed.

we just put a stair gate on his bedroom door and made sure his room was 100% safe (chest of drawers screwed to the wall, which tbh should be done anyway, but it gave us peace of mind)

I wouldn’t do anything if she isn’t waking up then what’s the problem !

She is 16 months but she was born 10 weeks early and is a very young 16 months. She isn’t walking and can’t pull herself up and down furniture so she’s possibly not quite ready for a bed just yet.

the problem is I am filling so many accident reports in at nursery and I would weather not my child walk round with bruises on her head if I can help it.

My mum used to grow my fringe long to cover the bruises I got from running into walls when learning to walk!

How about a cot with mesh sides like a travel cot?

I’ve just had a look and you can get extra large travel cots that are the same size as a normal cot

I moved my daughter into a bed at 13 months. She is epileptic and was bruised all up her sides after a nasty seizure so we moved her to a toddler bed and then popped her cot mattress on the floor for if she fell out, which she did a few times

My baby slept in a travel cot until he moved into a toddler bed for this exact reason.

Thank you everyone for your suggestions 💛
my little girls hair is curly (like Annie) it’s stunning but I probably couldn’t cut her a fringe.

I was speaking to my mum this afternoon and I said to her I might need to swap for a travel cot. It seems like the most fitting solution for us, at least until we can make her cot into a bed.

You could get a bed and put guards around it. They do the ones with mesh panels so nothing hard to hit their heads on. Mine was in a bed with those guards at 10 months old.

I second a travel cot. My DD mostly slept with me and occasionally a travel cot. She hated a proper crib