think i need to put ds in a cotbed.......advice and thoughts please

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ds (7 months) has discovered rolling over.....now whilst i'm pleased with his progress he has started to roll over at night and sleep on his belly, in itself not a problem but at about 4am (don't know why, but that is when he does it) he tries to roll over onto his back but he does it with quite some force and is banging his head on the cot bars. then he refuses to go back to sleep and is rolling around his cot getting wedged in uncomfortable positions, so we have to keep getting up and moving him.
we're now thinking that getting a cot bed may help the situation as the extra width might eliminate some of these problems.
i'm just reluctant to buy one without getting some advice/opinions about it first because obviously it's a lot of money. dp and i are starting to look like zombies!!!

why dont you try rolling up sheets/blankets/pillows and placing them all around the cot so when he rolls over he only bumps his head on the soft stuff. it seems alot on a cotbed for a problem that will proberly stop in the next few months

i don't think a cot bed will be that much bigger! not so as to stop him banging... he'll just roll further and still bang

buy a cot bumper. much cheaper

We have a cotbed and our DS (9mo) does this too... so I'm not sure it would help. DS just keeps rolling until he gets jammed, then cries (and yes strangely also at 4am!). You could try a cot bumper or a grobag - DS's grobag restrains him a bit, and he only wakes us up every hour or two. I'm hoping he'll just grow out of it. At the moment at about 5 am if he keeps waking up I just take him into our bed and he sleeps the rest of the night there (set up for co-sleeping obviously, I have wedged stuff down the side so he can't fall down and get trapped, and he doesn't have a pillow or duvet). That seems to work - he's much less wriggly in our bed. Mysterious!

Agree with starlover.

We have a cotbed for DS and he bangs himself on the bars all the time.

thankyou.....dp still wants to get a cotbed, but for now i will get a cot bumper. we will need to upgrade anyway as ds is very tall and the cot we have is quite small, added to the fact it is on it's lowest level and that is not very low at all!! if ds is a climber like dp and myself were then it will prove to be dangerous.
at least if i wait i'll probably be able to get one second hand (or even borrow a slightly better cot off a friend)
thankyou for your advice.