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How long does climbing out of cot last?!?

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grace1991 · 12/01/2022 19:07

Hi! Currently sitting outside 18m old boys bedroom going in and out in and out in silence putting him back into his cot. He has done it 25 times in half an hour. I don't say anything and just put him down. He has no side to his cot just a guard as he launched himself over the top a month or so ago. So he slips out the side of the guard.
How many nights does this go on for till they get bored ?! This is a week now and he does it for about an hour. Any help to a mother going crazy please . And just wants to eat her dinner😬😬😬

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KiloWhat · 12/01/2022 19:13

Following as having similar issues...

kijhahej · 12/01/2022 19:15

Put a stair gate on the door and let him get on with it. He will fall asleep eventually.

Roselilly36 · 12/01/2022 19:16

I would put him in a bed, he could hurt himself otherwise.

My toddler was like this, he wouldn’t stay in his bed, we followed the toddler taming book, and ended up having to do the rope trick, which is basically the last resort.

It worked for him, we took the rope off the door when we went to bed as he always got in our bed during the night.

Good luck.

Hellocatshome · 12/01/2022 19:17

We just put a staircase across the bedroom door and left them to it, found them asleep in some odd places on the floor and put them back into bed. They soon realised it was comfier just to stay in bed and stopped doing it.

KiloWhat · 12/01/2022 19:17

@kijhahej

Put a stair gate on the door and let him get on with it. He will fall asleep eventually.
Do you take everything else out their room?
Lacedwithgrace · 12/01/2022 19:17

I agree. Stair gate on inside of door, empty the room of anything interesting and they tire themselves out

kijhahej · 12/01/2022 19:17

Also yes I'd put him in a bed.

KiloWhat · 12/01/2022 19:17

@Lacedwithgrace

I agree. Stair gate on inside of door, empty the room of anything interesting and they tire themselves out
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Babdoc · 12/01/2022 19:17

I got rid of the cot when DD was 15 months, because I needed it ready for DD2 to arrive a month later!
DD had a mattress on the floor, so she couldn’t fall out. I told her it was a “big girl’s bed”, and only babies had cots. She was thrilled with it, and very keen to play on it and sleep on it.
I think the feeling of being unconfined, and the lack of cot bars, makes it much more attractive and less likely to provoke “jail breaks”!

MissAmbrosia · 12/01/2022 19:18

We took the side off the cot and stairgate on the door. The novelty of being able to freely get up lasted a few days. I did find dd asleep in the middle of the floor one morning though. The pipes ran underneath so she wasn't cold.

kijhahej · 12/01/2022 19:19

@KiloWhat we just put locks on the drawers that weren't safe for him to open (nappy bags etc) and left a few safe toys in.

Poppy2022 · 12/01/2022 19:22

My ds did exactly this and it was exhausting. Eventually got a toddler bed (‘big boy bed’) and bizarrely the problem stopped!

Caspianberg · 12/01/2022 19:23

Can’t they usually climb stair gates when they can climb cot? Mine is similar age and can hurdle over both. They both seem about the same height to me.

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grace1991 · 12/01/2022 19:28

We have a stair gate but he opens the door and stands against the stair gate singing! All the drawers and is bedroom is safe and secure. It's just annoying! If I got a bed surely he would still
Do the same thing?

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Caspianberg · 12/01/2022 19:35

I sit in the room whilst my son settles. Once in bed, I tend to ( like now) just use my phone with light low, and he’s happy enough he can see me in the dim light, but it’s too dark for him to get up and cause too much chaos. I sit on a chair in the corner, not his bed

Hellocatshome · 12/01/2022 19:36

We have a stair gate but he opens the door and stands against the stair gate singing! All the drawers and is bedroom is safe and secure. It's just annoying! If I got a bed surely he would still
Do the same thing?

Yes he would but by the sounds of it at the moment you are staying upstairs and constantly putting him back into bed. What you need to do is leave him standing at the stair gate singing while you go downstairs and get on with your evening. When he gets bored and gets no attention he will go to sleep (possibly on the floor to begin with) but will sooner its less hassle all round to just go to sleep on his bed.

saywhatwhatnow · 12/01/2022 19:47

What happens if you just leave him at the stair gate?

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grace1991 · 12/01/2022 19:48

@Hellocatshome ahhh I see. Thankyou lovely! Yeah I have just been sitting on the stairs waiting for him to appear 😂

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grace1991 · 12/01/2022 19:49

@saywhatwhatnow he will start to cry. He can't get back into bed himself as the guard only has about 7 inch gap to the cot edge. He can squeeze out but not back in 😟

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grace1991 · 12/01/2022 19:50

@Caspianberg that's good. But I think if i sat in his room he would stay up even more! I tried sleeping in his room when he had breathing problems with a chest infection a few months ago ans he thought it was great so stayed up ! X

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grace1991 · 12/01/2022 19:50

@Caspianberg he hasn't tried to hurdle the stair gate yet. All in good time 🥺🥺

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grace1991 · 12/01/2022 19:51

@Poppy2022 ahok! Did you not find he climbed out more ? Or rolled out?

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grace1991 · 12/01/2022 19:52

@KiloWhat I can't remember everything out or his room no! But I've put everything up high so he can't grab anything

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FI0N · 12/01/2022 19:55

Remove the cot and put the mattress on the floor.

Put up the stair gate across his bedroom door and leave him to it. If you must sit up there then do it silently and out of his sight.

When he has fallen asleep on his bedroom floor, move him onto the mattress if you can without waking him. Otherwise cover him with a blanket . I’m assuming your floor is carpeted and thar you child is wearing warm nightwear.

Buy a suitable bed when you can.

user1493494961 · 12/01/2022 19:55

You can buy 'high' stair gates, they're more difficult for a toddler to open.

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