Baby cot bang head

[DoNotLoseHope]

Hi just moved my little one into her big cot, and the first night she banged her head and woke up and cried. Cot bumpers are a suffocation hazard, how else are you supposed to protect their heads from the wooden sides?

I used an Airwrap cot bumper when mine were babies.

You don't. They're not going to properly hurt themselves banging their head on a wooden cot. She'll get used to sleeping in her new bed.

I did too but that was more to stop arms and legs caught between the bars.

You can’t wrap her up in cotton wool…..and trying to do so is counterproductive. She’ll soon learn but meantime no harm will come to her by a bump as you’ve described.

How old is she?
My DD is 1 and bangs her head on her cot all the time, I’ve done it myself, it doesn’t hurt my DD but it makes quite a loud bang so could the noise have startled her?

You don’t. They soon learn not to do it

Either do nothing, trust that she’ll figure it out and stop doing it, after all any bang she causes herself isn’t actually going to injure her. Or if it’s consistently disrupting sleep and getting too annoying then put her in a travel cot as those have mesh sides. Do not use bumpers. The risk just isn’t worth it.

She'll learn. I wouldn't risk it with a baby under age 1.

We did use mesh cot bumpers but from around 18 months as my DS was properly thrashing around and in the summer with no sleep sack he kept getting his legs stuck between the rails.