DD is 7 months old & has slept through the night for the last few months. She goes to bed at 8/9pm when she has her last feed of the day and wakes around 8/8.30am for a feed. On the baby monitor, I can hear that she sometimes wakes overnight & plays with her dummy (rattling it along the cot bars) or chats to herself before falling back asleep with no input from us & generally didn't move much overnight except maybe from lying on her back to her side.
However, over the last week she has suddenly started rolling around in the cot at night. She's been able to roll for months so I don't know why she's decided this week is the time to do it overnight! She wakes me at least 4 times a night when I hear bashing on the monitor & go in to find that she's lying horizontally across the cot & is bashing her head/limbs/face off the bars trying to roll when she's already rolled as far as she can go. Or she wakes me by crying when she's rolled so far she's got herself stuck at the very bottom/top of the cot. She was crying when she rolled herself onto her front although she's now realised she can turn her head & sleep so that's one less issue. I go in 4-5 times a night and move her feet back down to the base of the cot. Half an hour later, she'll be back at the opposite end, horizontal stuck (she's longer than the width of the cot-very tall baby often wearing 12-18 month clothes).
Changing her yesterday, I noticed she has huge bruises down one leg from bashing them off the cot bars overnight. When I went in overnight following her trying to roll and hitting her head off the cot, she had red marks over her head from the impact. She has safety cot bumpers up I.e the thin mesh ones so she can't trap her limbs but can't suffocate as they're breathable but they offer no padding. She tends to sleep on her side with her face pressed right up against the bumper. I know the standard padded bumpers are a suffocation risk, presumably especially due to her sleeping position. Aside from sitting next to her all night & rolling her back as soon as she starts rolling, I don't know what else to do! I always get up the second I hear her on the monitor but it's obviously not soon enough with the bruises she's already given herself. She rolls around continuously during the day too but I can put cushions around everything & watch her constantly. During nappy changes she frequently rolls away mid change but rolls back when she's called.
Has anyone got any advice? I'd be so grateful if there's any way I can prevent her getting any more bruises from her rolling. Last night I resorted to sitting on the floor next to her cot holding her hand through the bars so I could tell if she was rolling & fell asleep sitting up against her cot because I don't want her to hurt herself but obviously this isn't sustainable. If it's of any relevance she sleeps in a sleeping bag in a standard sized cot which converts into a toddler bed in due course.