dd, 22 months, has started to climb out of her cot. does this mean i have to get a bed or can i just leave the side down?

[AitchTwoOh]

tbh she's pretty smart about it anyway, makes a pile of her duvet and toys on the floor and does a dead drop onto it.

what do i do now? i don't mind getting her a cheapo bed from ikea as it would fit better in her room than an adult bed. but then it's not like she's too big for her cot, it's just that she can get out which might, i suppose, be dangerous. (although as i said, she has a method...)

any thoughts?

should read same PROBLEM... not rob....

I've weaned him off all other feeds in the day and evening and trying to stop bf all together.
Monster has other ideas though and like your lo, pulls at my top to try and get a sneaky feed.
Hoping it might make him less clingy to me

god, ffs.. i should not be typing at this hour. i cannot do it. that should also read my dh HAS to work away in week. cant bare it. he's over 200 miles away.

every weekend we say, right, lets be strong tonight and take it in turns.. but we end up just enjoying the sleep together and having her cuddle up to us both. so get nowhere with it. whats the bloody answer, someone? please? lol

I think thats my real prob. I dont want to stop all the feeds, just the middle of the night. I dont even mind the early doors one at 5am too much. well, sometimes lol.

I think the only way in the end for me will be when i stop it all together and i'm not ready to do that yet... so guess i'll just have to put up with it. she has other ideas.. being in charge and all that

How old is she?
I'm reading all your post how they're meant to be read despite the typos! Must be this late hr!

glad you can read them all fine!

She is 9 months now. she was prem and had alot of catching up to do, which she did really well... but is still quite small but very healthy...

funny really, i always said i'd stop at 6 months max!

now i cant think about stopping. she doesnt feed much from me now, had 3 meals a day which she eats really well... and 3 feeds from me, 1st thing, mid afternoon and then bedtime after attempting a bottle... then.. sleeps from 7:30 until about 1:30 then thats it, every couple of hours most nights.. its comfort i know, and would never take a dummy or her thumb...

We bypassed cots altogether and went straigt from a basket to a futon. Worked brilliantly.

thanks! she didn't escape last night so i don't htink it's a major compulsion at the moment. perhaps i'll leave it until she does it more consistently until one of my pals gives me an old bed ?

No help at all, but an amusing story - similar situation for a friend of mine with her 2 year old. They got her a bed, but she tended to fall out in the night, so they put a single mattress next to the bed - she'd fall out, stay asleep, and just sleep on the mattress. All fine, until one day the dad comes in late and pissed, decides her won't disturb his wife, but will sleep on handy spare mattress. Poor child had already fallen out of bed - dad gets on mattress, and poor little one rolls off and onto the floor. Cue tears, woken mummy and sound asleep daddy. Needless to say, he was not his daughter's favourite thing for a while... Should add that he is, in fact, a lovely father, and this story is simply a funny aberration.