What does your toddler sleep in?

[Blueowlnight]

I cosleep with my 18mo because he still feeds a few times at night and he doesn’t have his own room - he will share with his 4yo sibling.

he has always been a really active sleeper but the last few weeks he is covering the whole king size bed in his movements through the night. It’s got to the point that it’s no longer safe because he’ll move himself to the far end where he can just roll off, or throw himself into the bed guard and headboard multiple times a night. He can spend 1-2 hours rolling and moving about until he settles for a stint of sleep.

If you have an active toddler, what do they sleep in? We need to stop what we’re doing and all I can think is: take our bed apart and put the mattress on the floor? Or bring his floor bed in our room but risk him falling off a lot?

Im worries about putting him in his shared room as I think he’ll wake his sibling and there’s no room for me to sleep in there as well.

just curious how other people manage this
(ps. This is specifically about furniture - I’m really aware of sleep training/night weaning etc

We have a bedrail but with my other we moved to floor bed

Mine has got a floor bed now and before that it was a normal bed with an extra high guard. I've got a climber so the normal guards looked way too scalable😅

Ours actually slept in a travel cot with a decent, thick ikea child mattress at that age - ground level with an open end so he could get out, but had mesh sides to stop the rolling. In our room which seemed to stop him clamouring to come into our bed (I fed to sleep until age 2). We found with an actual cot he wanted to get out in a morning, and tended to kick the sides.

The travel cot was originally a temporary thing as we moved house, but actually he really liked it until he was 2.5, when he went in a cot with the side off (so like a bed but with 3 sides). Then a proper bed aged 4.

Ours has a cot bed but sides are still up. Will
Take them off once I think she could climb over and hurt herself

I had this problem with my first and asked mumsnet and someone suggested to get a bolster - a long cylindrical firm cushion thing that goes under the fitted sheet - and neither toddler has ever fallen out of bed since we used it. It's lower than a bed guard but performs the same function and is nicer

https://amzn.eu/d/42sz99F

This is just like ours

Mine also loved a travel cot, and the soft sides mean they can move around without hurting themselves.

You can get ones with a zip door if you are worried about climbing.

I was going to say this too. We have an inflatable triangle one from Amazon which works really well. Brand begins with a b I think.

Because it's triangular, it also sorted of tents the sheet, which puts my kids off climbing most of the time. Although, if they do it's lower than a guard and therefore safer.

Something like this. It's great.

Oh interested in the travel cot all the way to the floor! I wonder if he’ll move too much for it or if actually he’ll like being contained.

its so new for me because my eldest wanted to be cuddled nose to nose all night 🫣

At 18 months all mine have still been in cots once they showed signs of climbing out the cot they got floorbeds until around 5-6 years old.