Bed rail for bed with mattress sunken in frame (Ikea Malm)

[megonthemoon]

DS (2 this month) has just moved into his new bed from the cot and rolls out maybe every other night. It's low to the ground, and he has cushions by the bed so doesn't hurt himself and in fact just carries on sleeping, but we want to stop this happening.

The bed he has is an Ikea Malm one - the mattress sits completely inside and is sunken into the thick wooden frame. So this means that we can't fit one of the typical bed rails like this Tomy one because the rounded folding down mechanism is too big to sit inside the frame.

Anyone found a bed rail that can be attached to the bed frame rather than having to fit under the mattress? Or one which doesn't have the fold mechanism so can fit in fairly tight gap between frame and mattress?

My children both tried to climb over the baby dan one we had so it was actually more dangerous than them falling out of the low cotbed!
mothercare screws to frame

not sure if webpage above is old and if they still sell them.

I have seen luciemule's mothercare link on e-bay, but not sure it would be suitable for your IKEA Malm bed.. Sorry

I rolled up a towel to form a long, solid cylinder about four inches in diameter. I put it under the fitted sheet along the side of dd's bed. It stays put, and she has never fallen out. You could also put the towel under the mattress I guess to slope the mattress slightly on the 'open' side and keep ds from rolling out.

Good luck, anyway!

That's a good idea mumsnut(the rolled up towel). I also wondered whether changing the end of the bed your DS is sleeping might make a difference. If he tends to favour falling out that side, with luck, he may roll the other way towards the wall (if there is a wall that it!).

Ah, I like the slopey mattress idea - that should work a treat I think. Will try that. Thanks

Now I just need to work out how to keep him in the bed at 5.30am when he seems to think it's time to party...

I need a solution to that myself! If only the birds had a volume control ...

Hippychick have the solution dream tubes.

HTH

this one comes from Ikea and may well fit the Malm bed - my kids have had them on their wee Ikea beds and they've been fine.

I know, Hippychick - a cracking product. I saw them last year, thought 'Yippee, perfect', looked at the price tag, and rolled up a towel instead ...