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

[Flame]

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!

I had a very fetching bald patch on the top of my head when I was a toddler because my parents tied a piece of hardboard on the top of my cot to stop me climbing out. They were very cautious though as my cousin broke his arm when he climbed out of his cot.

My dad did it when I could climb out of my cot and scramble across their bed and be at the door before he'd walked round the bed.

I must add now though that I am claustrophobic in small spaces, don't nkow if that had anything to do with it!

I have to say that we put our ds in a grow bag to stop him climbing out for a while and when that no longer worked we put him in a bed and surprisingly after the first couple of nights he stopped getting out at all. Now he just lies there waiting for me.

I am starting to think more and more that bunk beds are the only solution (very at my baby growing up and feeling very pathetic and emotional).

More bloody money that we don't have, and trying to find one with a sloping ladder that isn't £700 odd is proving hard! (We need sloping because he likes heights and climbing, but can't climb back down straight ones)

Your DS will climb ANYTHING Flame so its only amatter of time before he learns to climb down as well as up!

I found some low bunks at Ikea (combined xmas present from lots of relatives this year) if you look at the catalogue you get a better picture - Kura they are called. not sloping but v low down

No ikea anywhere vaguely near

(Whilst you're here though - amazon list?)

ponders

Er, what's the bed tent going to do? Or am I missing a great idea?

No help here, except to say a)ds2 isnt far behind him;help! b)I'm sure dh could adapt a straight ladder to a slopey one c) would she realy not like her bed in you room for a bit? Is it the whole lot has to be the same, or just the bedand cuddlies, and you could even put her pics around on your walls etc?

It is the whole thing has to be the same - she is fine with change at other people's houses, but ours, she needs her bed, in the right place. Bunk bed would probably freak her out to begin with , but since it would be a permanent change it would be easier iyswim.

The bed tent would work by going over the top so he can't swing his leg over the side and get out

I was considering the changing a ladder thing too...

But wont he somehow get out of the end of the tent?

What about underbed storage drawers under dd's bed, and put him in them?

If she's ok at other houses, send her to your mums for a few days while you brave it out with ds?

Mum is stressed enough without DD

I like the storing him under the bed... I could just bung him in the chest of drawers, he'd fit

At the moment he can't get out of the end of the cot (no foothold) which is why I thought the tent might work.

Send her here over the xmas hols

What about rewarding him for staying in his cot? Is the wee fellow bribable at all?

You can have her regardless of the cot climbing

Nah, he doesn't understand bribes yet - have been trying that with the penicillin.

He doesn't understand telling off either apparently

He has now given himself concussion from climbing out of the cot, running round in circles and bashing into the dolls house... so is sleeping well

(The concussion is a joke btw)

Back to the Medised then! (Scooter reminisces fondly about when she first met Flame on MN...)

I'd forgotten the medised!

(Not how I met you, just the concept of using it)

More drugs! More drugs! More drugs!

(That was a joke, before anyone jumps on my head!)

I'll have a scout around the German shops out here to see if they have any ingenious solutions.

pmsl - I thought you were about to say scout around for better medication!

(Shhh... that's what I did mean really. The American PX on camp is bound to have some hardcore drugs )

you can get travel cots with a zip-up lid, so kid is totally zipped in. It's supposed to be used as an all-round mozzie net, but also works for containment.