Making a bed guard type thing......

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Been looking at bed guards and came accros this idea.... Where basically a big padded things is fittedunderneath the sheets to prevent kiddy falling off...

I'm thinking.... would it work if I made one/two from old pillow cases swen a big to make them skinnier then stuffed witht he terry nappies DD is no longer using. Have a double waterproof and normal sheet to fit over the top... of the single bed and home made bedguard.

What are your thoughts wise ones?

See, I don't understand the point of a bedguard like this, as it won't teach a child not to roll off the bed. At some stage you would presumably remove the bed guard, and have to deal with the not rolling out of bed thing then?

I moved DD into a cotbed recently and was paranoid about her falling out of it for the first few nights...so I put a big sofa cushion alongside the mattress, so she wouldn't have far to fall. Turned out she didn't fall out anyway, so I stopped putting the cushion there.

Yes.I do generally agree.... But shes an 'athletic' roll a round sleeper but is too bed for cot bed and is trying to jump out of it... Was hoping to put her straight into single bed.

Reckon I should stuff the sewing and let her learn?

Well yes, having just gone through a similar thought process. Can you put the single bed against a wall, so at least one side can't be fallen out of, and shove a couple of sofa cushions on the other side?

Or try a single mattress on the floor for a bit until she has the hang of it? Then you can put it back on the base without worrying she'll nosedive out and drop 2 foot onto the floor?

We started DS off without a guard rail and put cushions next to the bed to protect against any falls, however he too is "athletic" in his rolling, and for a month we'd go in to his room to check on him only to find him not just fallen out of bed, but on a couple of occasions on the complete opposite side of the room! Even when we tried getting rid of the cushions he still slept through the bump to the ground. We've now got a guard as we got fed up of him waking super-early because he was cold/on the floor.

Get a double flat sheet and pin them to the bed tuck them in with it to help them stay in the bed.

They do occasionally fall out, my eldest is 6 1/2 and still falls out, my 3 yr old rarely did or does. I think he has fallen out of bed once.

Ds1 is athletic and gets tangled in his duvet, I am assuming at some stage that he will grow out of it

We just shoved the cot beside the bed for a few weeks - although this obviously doesn't work if you want the cot for the next DC down the line.