Falling out of cot -12 months old

[vickie]

can anyone help or had similar experience? DD is 12 months old (just) and last night she threw hersef out of her cot after a bout of screaming (well, I was trying to do controlled crying). Id only left her 3 minutes and I heard a horrible thud and she was on the floor. What do I do now????? Buy a new cot?? Im worried sick about it as Im sure she'll do it again now she knows she can.

Ah Aloha, the wonderful csection head. Just goes to show its probably more birth than how they sleep.

Like I say ... some people disagree with the 'flat head' theory ... but my mum is of the 'old school' and in "my day no baby slept on its back and no babies had flat heads" ... now there are quite a few babies and young children that I have seen who have flat bits at the back of their heads ... (of course I did tell my mother that in 'her day' there were more cases of SIDS ... but she just said 'Hrrrumph!'
I have one friend whose head is quite flat at the back on the right and she was told by a paediatrician that it was because of the fact that he favoured that side of his head when he slept as a small baby ...

Blinking winking smilies! Sorry ...

Sorry - I havent been on the site for ages and jsut noticed all the feedback. Brilliant, thanks. I have definately got the cot bed on the lowest setting and without the help of either steps and poles she fell out. She must have just been trying to climb and literally tipped out. Nothing she does surprises me in the slightest anymore. She hasnt done it since but Im keeping her in her cot and if she does it one more time......