22 month old jumping out of cot

[GreyPanther]

Hello

Our 22 month old has started jumping head first out of his cot. He wears a sleeping bag so this hasn’t stopped him from doing it.

For now we have put him on a mattress on the floor but am worried he’s too young for a bed as he tends to shuffle about in his sleep a lot.

Any tips on getting him to stay in the cot? Also, any tips on where to get a good bed? Are the montessori style house beds any good or are they unsafe? Thank you!

Can you convert his cot into a bed (cotbed?) And put the IKEA clip on barrier to stop them falling out? We use this on our john lewis cotbed and works well

www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/vikare-guard-rail-white-30099293/

They really can't stay in the cot, very unsafe!

Mattress on the floor.
Baby gate across the dirt to stop them wandering at night.

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Mattress on the floor is fine. I put DD2 in a bed with bed rails at 22 months - she managed to not fall out bed during the night until she was nearly 4 years old.

I was amazed how quickly DD learnt not to fall out of bed! We got a low one from Argos as she was a bit older but otherwise mattress on floor is fine. Agree with stair gate on door though.

Cot bed with bed guard? Or mattress on the floor. It's dangerous to have them in a cot if they are doing that - my DS used to do exactly the same!

Cot bed are ideal my DD was 18 months old when we took the rails off her cotbed and just put a bed guard on the side.
It's low enough so not high up and she can get in and out of her bed herself we have a gate on our stairs to stop her wandering off.
Also if your using sleeping bags still I would highly recommend the tommee tippee steppe ones they're legs and feet are able to move about in them not like a normal sleeping bag

When you say stair gates on door, do you leave the door open? Am I missing something, why can’t you just shut the door?

@Kokosrieksts

When you say stair gates on door, do you leave the door open? Am I missing something, why can’t you just shut the door?

...because toddlers can open doors?

@Kokosrieksts

When you say stair gates on door, do you leave the door open? Am I missing something, why can’t you just shut the door?

Mine can open the doors easily. I don't really want to wake up to find her stood next to me (like something out of a terrifying horror film). It's bad enough that she keeps opening the bathroom door mid loo break.

Mine went into a normal bed, main thing is that they come out of the cot. If you are continuing with the sleeping bag the mattress on the floor sounds sensible. We left doors open but did erect a complex barrier system at the top of the stairs which would not otherwise been safe. They hardly ever fell out of bed.

This was my grandson last year at 18 months. He had a mattress on the floor and a high baby gate so he couldn't escape during the night. After 6 months, he went into a toddler bed with a long side rail.

The upside is that now he plays happily in his room for an hour in the morning, giving his mum a lie in.

Thanks for explaining. Our door handles are high up so I didn’t even think of this. :D

We put DD in a cot bed at 23 months; we rolled up a duvet on the floor so if she did roll out she had some cushioning and it was so low that on a couple of occasisons when she did roll out she didn’t even wake herself up. I wouldn’t persist with trying to keep him in the cot as he’s more likely to injure himself climbing out than rolling out of a low bed.

Can you just take the side off the cot as a starting point? DS worked out how to climb out but he was still perfectly small enough for the cot so we just took the side off. He rolled out in his sleep a couple of times but it was only a few inches off the floor so he was fine. His door had a very stiff handle and he couldn't open it so he couldn't get out!

Thank you all for your responses!

Unfortunately we can’t take the side of the cot off to make it into a cot bed so we’ve ordered a low to the ground single bed and mattress and hope he’ll take to it.

We’ve had him sleeping on a mattress on the floor these past few nights and he just shuffles about all over the room in his sleep. I went to check on him at 1am and he was sleeping in a corner by the door. Really hoping he’ll learn to sleep in one spot soon!

Ps I wish we could have him sleeping in the same bed as us but he finds the big bed far too exciting and doesn’t really fall asleep in it. I went into his room to sleep on the floor with him last night after I went to check on him and it seemed to stop some of the long distance shuffling!

@Joswis

This was my grandson last year at 18 months. He had a mattress on the floor and a high baby gate so he couldn't escape during the night. After 6 months, he went into a toddler bed with a long side rail.

The upside is that now he plays happily in his room for an hour in the morning, giving his mum a lie in.

@Joswis this sounds ideal. Does he have a night light in his room?

Sounds like a good plan OP. Also make sure all the furniture is nailed to the wall so he can't pull it onto himself. I'm sure he will get used to the bed just fine. Good luck!

He didn't at first, GreyPanther, because he was used to sleeping in the dark, but he does now. The mattress on the floor is good though, because he could just throw himself on it when he was tired, although sometimes we would find him curled up in the duvet on the floor.

Oh yes, and to start with, we would lay with him while he fell asleep. Gradually we moved away from that by singing to him from the bedroom next door. So he knew we were there, but not in the room.