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2.4 year old falling out of bed

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oooggs · 01/04/2006 19:04

Our 2.4 year old has been in his cotbed from 22 mths and keeps falling out. It is now 4/5 times a night and is happy once out to curl up on the floor and carry on sleeping. We have a folded duvet on the floor to soften the blow!!!

Other than a bed guard or velcro on his bum!!!!! Any other ideas please??

What are your thoughts on a bed guard and any recommendations please?

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Sparklemagic · 01/04/2006 19:19

I wouldn't have put my DS in a bed without a bdguard, I thought this was pretty standard for a first bed? We bought a 'travel' one which is a fabric covered metal frame with a mesh centre. It's been on DS' bed until this week (he's now three and a half) and it's been great, I wouldn't have been without it. He also used it as a little 'store' stuffing down his cup and book at night in it, very cute!

It also was taken on holiday with us last year nd proved very useful as the bed there was a divan and much higher than he's used to. It concertinas in and folds flat for travel. Think it came from BabiesRus.

Go for one I reckon!

Sparklemagic · 01/04/2006 19:21

btw, didn't mean to sound 'snooty' about you not having a bedguard - I just meant that in my naivety I kind of thought you 'had' to have a bedguard on a first bed!!!! ARe there some people that think not then???

BettySpaghetti · 01/04/2006 19:47

Have you tried putting the duvet on sideways and tucking it in at the sides? Might hold him in for a bit longer!

I would definately recommend a bed guard though -we used one for DD and will use it with DS when he moves into his bed.

sarahhal · 01/04/2006 19:53

Just going through the same. We have found that putting a double sheet/throw across folded horizontally across the bed on top of duvet tucked in under mattress ( I know what I mean!!!!) holds in him to an extent.

nulnulcat · 01/04/2006 21:11

just moved dd to her big bed she is nearly 2 and a half to make things easier we have her on the matress on the floor at moment as her bed is one of those mid sleeper things, she manages to roll out of that a few times a night and is also quite happy to carry on sleeping on floor but she is spending more time in the bed than out of it every night!

FrannyandZooey · 01/04/2006 21:15

What's to think about? He's falling out FOUR or FIVE times a night? Buy a bed guard!

peaches27 · 01/04/2006 21:33

We found a bed guard difficult with a 2 year old as it was his routine to have a story read whilst one of us was sitting or lying on his bed ... this wasnt possible with the bed guard we bought (Tomy from Argos) as it folded up and down, but even if it was down we couldnt get beside him on his bed. Bear this in mind if this is your routine. If we sat on the floor to read to him he would wake when we clicked the bed guard into place.

He had a junior bed with the top two foot or so with a little cot rail on. This helped to a certain extent ... But the tucking ideas sound good.

Seona1973 · 02/04/2006 13:38

we have a Tomy bed guard for dd and manage to do stories on the bed without folding it down (mind you she has a full size single bed rather than a toddler one). DD sits up at the pillow end and we lie on our tummy on the bed with our head towards the pillow end and sort of read the book upside down - or if you lie on your side you can read the right way up. Never found much of a problem with it and dd also puts things in the little pocket.

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oooggs · 02/04/2006 21:09

Thanks all we now have a bed guard.

Peaches we have a wooden one which folds down for bedtime routine and then up as you are leaving them.

I did look into the tomy one, which looks great but didn't fit in with the way we have been doing stories and cuddles.

Hears to a peaceful night

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CKMUM · 18/04/2006 20:37

my two wont sleep unless they're in bed with me but when trying to get me eldest to sleep on her own i asked at sure start who do long term loans of baby equipment, i was very broke so embarassingly couldnt even afford bed gueard at that time!, i was given a lecture about risking my childs life.

She said bed guards were very dangerous as children can slip between the bed and guard and one boy has suffocated.

Anyne else heard this? She really upset me

Seona1973 · 19/04/2006 19:38

No I havent heard this and it wouldnt put me off using one either!! There are probably dangers in most things we use - she had no right to lecture you for trying to stop your lo falling out of bed.

Sparklemagic · 19/04/2006 19:51

I haven't heard that either, and I am a VERY paranoid mum, look at everything and see the potential harm! Try as I might, I cannot see HOW a child could suffocate by having a bedguard like ours on - it's mesh so has thousands of 'oles!

lapsedrunner · 19/04/2006 19:59

Left ds in cot until nearly 3

Sparklemagic · 19/04/2006 20:07

such a good idea! I would certainly have done this, but we had a standard sized cot (not a cotbed) and DS is big for age, so simply outgrew his cot, the poor boy couldn't roll over without banging limbs on bars...so we felt we had to move him, but I think cots till three is the way to go!

cyberminger · 27/04/2006 20:27

We were also shocked at the cost of bedguards, so made one from a very bog standard piece of wood - a smooth 'planed' piece that we sanded at the ends - and a couple of long flat metal bracket things from B&Q. It's not portable, and it made holes in the inside of the bed where we screwed it in, but there's no sharp bits and F hasn't fallen out of bed since.

juliab · 27/04/2006 20:35

Never bothered with a bedguard with either of my three. Just put big floor cushions next to the bed in case they fell out. Each of them did a few times to begin with (when they first moved from cot to bed) but never hurt themselves – and, often, never woke! Within a few weeks, they all 'got' the not-falling-out thing and that was that, really.
But maybe I've been lucky...

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