OMG, DD fell out of her cot!

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She has co-slept with us since birth but 5 nights ago we started putting her in her cot (shes 18 months)

First night was awful, second night was pretty bad, 3 rd night she lay down and went to sleep, ditto the fourth.

But last night sh was a bit upset and stood at the bars shouting, we just was sat next to her, she kept lifting her leg up onto the top bar.

Next thing , bang! she had done a full front flip and landed on her back on the floor.

She was terrified, she clung to me for life for about 20 minutes

So now I don't know what to do, the beds on the lowest setting so I can't make it any safer

She slept with us again.

Poor you and her

Can you just take the sides off and push the bed up beside yours? or use the mattress on the floor?

My ds1 was in a cot bed at 16 months, previously having co slept with us. He did a few weeks before this on the floor in our room on his mattress (to start with, always ended up in bed with us though )

Can you move her mattress onto the floor instead of the cot, and then transition her into a toddler bed/cot bed without sides?

Her cot bed turns into a toddler bed,

I don't think she would fall out of a toddler bed - the fall was bad because she went up iver the top of the bars(?!)

The only problem with a toddler bed is her getting out, suppose I could put a stairgate on our door,

Gosh she seems to little to be in a bed!

However did she get to be 18 months?

Time to move from cot to bed (or to a mattress on the floor), I'm afraid. Some children never climb out of the cot but some like your DD get the hang of it quite quickly (particularly advanced given she's only been in the cot for five nights; clearly she should be on the G&T register when she starts school...)

Do you think aher bed with one of those bed guards would be ok?

My ds1 never got out, if that is any consolation. He's only recently started getting out and walking to our room at 3!

DD's cot was turned into a bed before then. She would just climb out. We still mainly co-slept but for the nights she chose her own room, it was a bed from about 16 months.

dd2 did the full flip over the bars thing- i was horrifed but after the initial shock she thought it was hilarious

she was in a bed at 20 months but we put a stairgate over her door to stop her escaping. she was fine. hth

could you try putting her in a grobag? makes climbing v difficult -tho not impossible...!

I think I'm going to move the room about so her cot is against the wall then our bed against the cot, so she can only fall onto our bed.

Don't think I'm ready to put her back to bed 40 times a night

My DS climbed out of his cot at 11 months, fell and fractured his collar bone. I tried a grobag for a bit, and then from about a year a bed which worked a lot better, although I seem to have forgotten the part about persuading him to stay in it...

My dd did this recently (she is 22mths), although she actively climbed out of the cot.

You need to take the side off, or get her in a bed. We use a stair gate over her door. Took us a few weeks to get her to settle & she gets it now. She will actually stay in her cot & chatter instead of playing!

And yes...my dd IS far too small & young for a bed but rather the few weeks of hassle, than a broken bone!