"Flameboy got out mummy!" "He got out again!" "He got out!" <sob> Help a sparro' will you?!

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DS can climb out of his cot.

It is on the lowest setting.

He's had the ability for ages, but didn't seem to realise what to do with his power.

Now he has.

He keeps getting out - turning off the cd, playing with toys, sitting on DD, taking her duvet, taking her teddies, being loud....

Sticking him in a bed will solve none of the problems, just make it easier to get out.

Seperate rooms is only an option if me & DH move to the lounge

Is it wrong to strap a couple of stairgates across the top of his cot so he is caged in???

HELP ME!

In the dim and distant past my mil strapped my dh in his bed, using reins.

Not the done thing now but it worked for them

Put his cot on the landig so dd isn't disturbed and spend a few nights putting him back in his cot every two minutes until he gets used to it?

Make some kind of adaptation to the cot involving taking the base out and putting the matress on the floor so the sides are effectively higher?

I really have no idea. I'm dreading it happening here.

Reins is appealing

Landing won't work - it's too narrow so he'll just vault over the bannister instead

Sides don't come low enough for mattress on the floor (he would be able to wriggle under ).

After the 4th time tonight, he seemed to get the idea that mummy was Very Pissed Off and I think he may be too scared to move again

I was going to suggest a lid.

Is he in a Grobag? That is meant to hinder them.

I was imagining blocking the gap at the bottom with some tastful wood

I just saw a post on another thread where someone used a travel cot for this problem....deeper sides and nothing to get a foothold on.

or dd in your bedroom for a few nights - she is old enough to understand why and that it is only temporary, then you transfer her back to her bed later on. be all confidential and grown up with her about it.

DS2 did this too except he used to stand on the windowsill

It doesn't last for ever although thats no help when your in the middle of it! Take the side off the cot, replace it with a bed guard (i know it won't completely reach side to side) and stock up on wine and chocolates for the next few nights

transfer her back to her bed later on each night i mean, when u go to bed.

is he getting out the room as well?

sew the legs of his babygrow together.

Second nomination for grobag.

Soupy - someone told me a Grobag was supposed to hinder them. all it did for my ds was piss him off, then he'd zoom around the room anyway!

Flame - does your ds escape buggy straps too? i fear i may be posting exactly this thread in a few months...

She won't sleep anywhere other than her bed at home (she need some things very very set routine iyswim)

He won't go in a grobag - we've been trying since he was tiny but he hates them

I was pondering the travel cot too - that could be the next step.

Jas - you should know me well enough by now to know you need to explain things like bits of wood, rather than just assume I wouold be bright enough to think of it

One day I will be on dragons den with my flybaby suit!
Basically tis sleepsuit made of soft side of velcro. Strips of the other side of velcro are placed where you need them...On the cot mattress for example.

Lay child down on velcro and voila! Child cannot escape!

Gate on the room, so no way to escape there (but I did find him sobbing by an upturned toy crib.... so i think he was making a bid for freedom)!

Yes to strap escaping DH fashioned a holdy together device for the car seat

I was considering strong velcro myself

I did wonder about that as I typed it Flame
am pmsl at the velcro baby! mine would probably use it to do spiderman stunts.

So funny you shold say that about velcro... my Dh had been going on about inventing a velcro suit all week. With the other bit of velcro, strategically placed on various walls and surfaces around the house, including the bottom of the cot

He reckons he would be able to just stick her down anywhere, know where she is, and get on with the washing up/ hoovering etc... an go back and she'd be where he left her, rather than jammed under the chair, or bed, or inside the cupboard in the bathroom, eating cotton wool.

It's my idea! Gerrof!

LOL

its HIS idea,you gerrof!!! {grin]

My sister was so adept at escaping my parents fashioned a lid out of battens of wood tied across the top of the cot. She eventually got the hang of escaping even that.

Fire safety and efiicacy questionable but in desperation ...

we used a safetsleep for dd and it worked a treat. She 'learnt' to sleep in the same spot with it, which was good for when she got old enough to undo it herself at about the age of 1.5!

will be using it again (if I can find it) for next dc too.

roffle at velcro baby!

would one of those cat net things work like a lid?

Oooooooooooooooh cat net thing... we may have a winner

I'm looking into low bunk beds too (well, sloping ladder is the most important bit... and price).