DD fell out of the big girls bed last night

[Kione]

I have see the other post about this, but our situation is slightly different.

She is 2yr 4 months and she loves the big bed in her room. Its actually a bed, not a cot bed, and the frame is metal (I know we never realised!) so can't put a guard. Mother in law suggested a pilow on the side, she has 5 children and neither fell (I now think that probably she doesn't remeber). So in she went all happy (I put her in her sleeping bag because she still doesn't know how to cover herself with the duvet), put a pillow under the fitted sheet and she fell sleep instantly. At 1am I hear this thump! and went to her room and she was still sleep on the floor (first afternoon at nursery and she was shattered but she won't go everyday)! She seems to have rolled over the pillow on the side, so I put her back in the cot.

I'd love to leave her in the cot for a bit longer, but she demands to sleep in the big bed!

Any ideas will be greatly appreciated!!

Kione, sounds perfect - cut yourself some slack! Transitions are always hard. If that's what works for you then run with it. Now she's in the big bed it's important you still go to her when she needs you but you have to instill that 'once I've put you in bed you stay there unless there's an emergency or you need a wee' using whatever discipline method works for you.

My MIL used to put a chair up against the side of DH's bed. Not that he apparently ever noticed when he fell out.

We have a mattress on the floor rather than a bed, and DS often falls out but hardly ever wakes.

I'd just put some pillows on the floor to soften it a bit.

conorsrocker thank you. I thought of putting her on the sleeping bag until the summer and then try to get her to use the covers and to stay in bed. At the moment she has her naps without the sleeping bag but I can go and keep covering her, cn't do that at night so will wait until its warmer at night.

My 18 month old has just gone into a big bed - he has a bed guard on it that goes under the mattress, so should work on a metal bed frame? He has fallen out around the side of the bed guard though but was fine.

He is in a sleeping bag too, and sometimes gets out of bed to play then falls asleep on the floor

DD can't get off the bed on her sleeping bag, that is my trick for the moment!

Shw fell again last night, we hadn't put the cot matress on the floor yet as I put it before I go to bed. She was inconsolable, she wanted to go to the cot and I ended up putting her in and me sleeping in the bed next to her as I thought she might have hurt herself, she was at the very least frigtened. She kept waking up, crying, she didn't turn as she always does and we where up by 6, she normally wakes at 8. I am soooo upset that I put her in the big bed now. She is just lying in the sofa exhausted now. We'll see what happens tonight.

Hi, I'm a bit late to this one, but one of my brothers used to fall out of his cabin bed when little so Mum and Dad tilted the mattress by putting a length of pipe under the mattress so that he rolled towards the wall rather than the edge!! A cheap and cheerful solution!