How long does climbing out of cot last?!?

[grace1991]

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😬😬😬

Not really no, she barely slept in her next2me and then when I put her in a cot she woke up even more than usual (a lot) and she was even more upset, even right next to me in bed. Took till she was 1.5yrs for her to sleep about the same in a separate bed (I took the side off her cot so I could put her there without waking her) but she still woke up a lot for another year so still mostly in our bed till 2.5.

DS sleeps in his crib no problem 🤷‍♀️

@olderthanyouthink ahhh bless. Funny how they all are so different❤️

It's the biggest indicator they need to be in a bed. Because they can fall out the cot, a much higher distance than a bed. My friends DD ended up losing her 2 front teeth and getting a bloody nose from climbing out of the cot.

@Idontknowlondon he doesn't fall out. He climbs past the cot guard and steps onto the floor

It's all looks like this. But a mesh guard.

We did as others have suggested and put a gate across the door and ensured the room is safe. If I was you I would remove the bed guard and either put a duvet on the floor or put the mattress on the floor. I would worry with a smallish gap for the bed guard he might try and wriggle through and get stuck. If it helps mine fell out of bed occasionally and they never even woke up!

@grace1991 we had a 2nd gate at the top of the stairs, and no he never did run around upstairs etc, he only ever woke around 4am and would come straight to our room - i did worry about him turning the bath taps on as he was obsessed with those at one point, but he never did. You don’t know until you try.

We’d go to bed around 10 and open his gate/close the one at the top of the stairs then, sometimes would move him back into the bed if he’d rolled onto the floor.

So!!! Cot guard off so it's like a normal bed. He's got out of his bed twelve times and it isn't stopping. !!!

Put the mattress on the floor and child proof the room. With the mattress on the floor if he rolls over in his sleep he only falls a few inches.

@Blossom64265 I'm not putting the Mattress on the floor. If he falls it's on the lowest height and about 10 inches off the ground.

What was your reason for taking the actual cot side off? Was he climbing over it too? Could you put it back on? My son is 21 months and I've zero intention of removing the cot side any time soon 🙈 his sleep has only just settled this last month so I don't want to give myself another reason to keep getting up in the night to put him back in bed!

Time for a big boy bed and some story books about bedtime, lights out, bye-bye

@2ndTimeRound90 yeah we took it
Off as he was climbing out of it and it was too dangerous ! I think a bed is the way forward