question for co-sleepers.

[misdee]

dd3 rolled off the bed topday, feel quite guilty about it, i had aplced a bolster cushion to stop her, but it didnt work, so what can i do to stop it happeneing again?

IME, 2 co-sleepers who eventually took over the whole bed, they only ever did it the once.

Not much help but since you asked

one side against wall, other with a bed guard (is that what I mean?) on it?

You can buy barriers (metal frame with netting bit) which slot under the mattress and up the side of the bed. Not sure where but I would think the usual outlets (babies R Us, Argos, Mothercare). They're really good and easy to use, and are useful when toddlers are first put in normal beds to stop them rolling out.

We have a futon on the floor, but in other people's houses use either a) bed pushed against wall b) ds in between me and dp or c) the Tomy bed guard mentioned earlier. I think a) is best as you do feel more comfortable, and the bed guard only covers part of one side of the bed, so no good if you have a night-time wanderer. If all else fails put another mattress on the floor for a softer landing!

she is only 7months and my mattres sis very deep so the bed guard wont work. i cant push the bed against a wall due to lack of space.i dont have dh at mo so she is in the middle, so it looks like our part-time co-sleeping may be coming to an end.

I put ds's cot mattress on the floor, he only comes in with me in the middle of the night, so I'm on his other side.

If your dd doesnt usually sleep with you - STOP NOW!!! You might not get her out of it!

I wish to god I'd never let DS sleep with me

The only other thing I can think of is push furniture such as bedside table, wardrobe etc. next to the side she is sleeping on. Or take the mattress off the base and just put it on the floor, student stylee. (the bed base could go on its side in another room maybe?). You would have to be quite dedicated to co-sleeping to do this! (but it is lovely, isn't it? )

Yep, we dismantled the bed and slept on the mattress on the floor for a while.

I put a pillow by the side of my DD but at 15 months she has never mastered rolling.

With DS we pushed the bed up against the wall.

no room to store the base in another room. i live in a piddly sized disabled bungalow, and the bed will need to be at the height it currently is for when peter comes out. I dont mind her sleeping with me, it maikes the occasional night feeds easier, she starts the night in her own cot, if she wakes (which isnt every night) then i take her into my bed. i did the same with the other 2, they generally sleep most nights in their own beds but atm thats gone off the wall with everything happening, they just feel safer in my bed.

I tuck the duvet round ds (nearly 12m) or put my arm over him. So far I've always woken up when he moves. He tends to get up on his hands and knees rather than rolling though, luckily.

Maybe sleep on the mattress on the floor, if you have room?

dont have the room i dont even have room for her bedside cot in my room.

oops, just read the rest of the thread and see the bed arrangement can't be changed.

I'm not sure if this would work for your DD, misdee, but there's a trick my midwife taught me. You tuck a sheet in, well, under the mattress, then put the sheet around your kid then over you, and tucked in on your far side. (I hope that makes sense.)

Otherwise, yeah, you're stuck with bolsters on the bed, pillows on the floor, furniture next to the bed.

I presume you wouldn't have space to get one of those co-sleeper cot things in, then, misdee? Where they lie right next to you, in a cot with only 3 sides?

I think NQC's suggestion sounds like the answer. You could really wedge the sheet under so that it wouldn't fall out on your daughter's side.

i have a bedside cot frankenstein and used it loads in my old place with dd2, but i just dont have the space in my room these days to fit the cot in.

dd3 wriggles out of sheets, i can tuck in so tightly but she still escapes. she is a wriggly wanderer lol.

Misdee
there are quite a lot of bed guards on ebay which might help but most of them are local pickup

Misdee
there are quite a lot of bed guards for about 3-5 pounds on ebay which might help but most of them are local pickup

Ok, I've got it. Make a velcro sleepsuit and velcro her to the sheets.

Seriously, I give up for now, but I will keep thinking...Have you got an older child who could sleep the other side? I'm scraping the bottom of the barrel now...

Bed against the wall for us to. Loads of duvets/pillows on other side. Now she's in her cot until the middle of the night when she comes in between us but to be honest am trying to get her to sleep in her new cot in her new room from tonight as her fidgeting is getting to be a nightmare. I woke up twice last night with her head in my back, DP had the kicks in the face as she was lying horizontal between us.

Loved cosleeping but it's wakening us all up in the night now

OK - what about this?
Stitch - or velcro!! - a gro bag to one side of a sheet - or even a long strip of material. Tuck the other side under the mattress on opposite side of bed. You would then sleep on top of the piece of material, but baby shoud still have enough movement for feeding etc .
You coudl have gro bag ready (without baby) when you go to bed and if she wakes up you could put her inside it and go back to sleep..
What do you think? Is it too daft an idea?

like the velcro idea. I co-slept with dd3 until 10 months when she started craweling around the bed at night. Was sad that she had to sleep in the cot for her own safety. Now co-sleeping with ds4 - he's 3 weeks today