Ds just learnt to move in cot - Please Help?!

[Williamsmum]

Almost 8 months old, very slow obviously, but has only just realised that he can move in his cot from front to back and side to side etc. This is potentially fine except that he is in a sleeping bag so when he tries to sit up he ends up at the bottom of his cot stuck sideways screaming! He occasionally has managed to sit up and holds onto the bars crying! What can I do to prevent this? What do I do to stop him? How do I behave when it happens? Do I go in, do I just leave him - even when screaming because stuck? What do I do? I don't want to make the situation worse by him realising that its another way to make me go to him! He used to be a very good sleeper till the last couple of days when he realised that he can do this! Straight down, straight to sleep, wake up happy etc, now he won't go down just tries to get up, and wakes up screaming because he is exploring!

Please help with advise as don't want to ruin things well adn truely because I don't know what to do!

Just leave him to sort himself out. I know it sounds harsh, but he will learn to get himself comfortable again within a few nights.

Our two have always been good sleepers at night, but everytime they learned half of a new skill our sleep would be disrupted until they learned the next half. For example, at about the same age as your ds, mine learned to stand himself up in the cot, but didn't know how to get down again, so he would stand and cry. At first I went in and helped him out, but then he would stand up again. After a few nights with no improvement I decided not to go in to him when he stood up, and eventually he learned to sit down again. It happened accidentally because he cried so hard that he let go of the cot bars and fell down! It took maybe 2 night for ds to learn to sit down deliberately, and another couple of nights for him to get bored with this trick. The trouble had been that he was having a rather rough bout of teething at the same time, and every time he woke he would stand up - because he could.

agree with prettycandles. mine was the same and i left her alone, and she realised that she shouldnt do it as it upsets her. she's always been a fidget and moves around her cot so much, god knows what she'll be like in a bed!