dd can climb out of her cot

[tammybear]

She can climb out of her travel cot when we stay at my mum's, and last night she climbed out of her normal cot. Is there anything I can do to prevent her from doing this, as she banged her head a bit when she landed. She climbs out at the end, sticks her leg over, pulls herself up, and somersalts to the floor and the floor isnt particularly soft either. She's 2 in December and I can't get her a bed as her room isn't ideal to be sleeping in a bed and wasn't expecting to put her in a bed til sometime next year. Suggestions, as i dont have a clue what to do

Could you put her in a gro-bag as this might make it slightly more difficult for her to stick her leg over the cot bars? Wom x

You could put the side down lower so she doesn't have so far to fall and then put cushions/mattress/thick duvet underneath.
I used to worry about this too.

One word: GROBAG!

Though if you get a smartie like my ds2 who unzips his grobag then climbs out of the cot then, no - there's not a damn thing you can do. I used to wonder about a lid! Ds2 started climbing out of his cot at about the same age (after unzipping his grobag)and I moved him to a bed.

If you can't have a bed then I guess damage limitation - leave the side down so it's easier for her to climb out, put something on the floor to soften her landing. I guess worse case scenario would be to get rid of the cot altogether and have the cot mattress on the floor. The other thing I did, once ds2 could escape from his cot was to put a stairgate on his door so at least he was contained in his room.

lol marthamoo bout ur comment on a lid.

will look into grobags, and i do have a stair gate on her room as she doesnt have a door, but also theres the problem that her room leads to the bathroom, and the door can easily push open

marthamoo, did you ever try putting the grobag on backwards? I defy your little Houdini to open a zip down his back ...

I did consider putting it on him backwards - but as we already had a bed in his room it didn't seem a big problem to put him in it (actually, I lie - he was a s*d about going into a big bed...but that's another story!)