Jumping out of cots... Post Reply

[Henriettab]

Any advise would be welcome...
my 20 month old daughter (who is quite tall and wilful) has just managed to jump out of her cot when i put her down for her mid day nap.
I wasn't going to think about other bed solutions until after our second baby arrives in July, but now i am pretty worried.
She has a large Boori Cot bed that is meant to even convert and house them until they are 5! http://www.boori.com/uk/collections/urb ... bed-u-sucb
i would really like to keep he in this until she is a bit older if possible.
any advise really welcome!!! Thank you!!

[Junebaby]

I would take the side off the cot and convert it into a bed. With the safety guard in place and something soft on the floor in case she falls out it saves the worry of her falling from a greater height and from letting her climbing out of the cot becoming something more than it really is. My own younger daughter was a 'climber' from around a year old and would happily climb up window sills, out of her cot, onto tables, up ladders…. in fact anything she felt like climbing! She didn't fall, she didn't hurt herself, she did no harm to herself or others. I would stay quietly in the background so as not to break her own concentration and to make sure that she was safe in her exploration of a world taller than her field of vision. She was riding a 2 wheeler bicycle unaided and without stabilisers before her third birthday - not that it matters but just to show what a well developed sense of balance she had by then.

Your daughter sounds like an adventurous little explorer… enjoy!

[ladyofacertainage]

2 out of 3 of mine were in beds by then for just that reason...climbers. We did put a very high gate on their doors (custom made) to keep them safe in their rooms in the mornings as they were all early wakers and we didn't want them roaming the house unattended and didn't want to lock them in with the door shut. The eldest ended up having his nap on the floor by the gate as he wouldn't stay in bed, and had dropped his nap completely by the age of 2.

[NYE31]

Our DS learnt to climb/jump out of his cot bed aged 2, we took the sides off it & it converted into a toddler bed. We used the gro bag all in one duvet/sheet/pillow case which were great. He has just gone up into a big bed aged 3 & a half.

We didn't use a side rail or anything like that, the zipped in gro bag duvet stops them falling out, you may want to consider a stair gate across their bedroom door & a gro clock to stay in bed if they are early risers.

[LizzieTheNappy]

We had a similar situation - my daughter was a bit younger - maybe 18 months - and although her bedroom was 'safe' I had terrible visions of all the highly improbable accidents that might occur so we actually put her play pen (which was the kind that folded out into a giant guard) around her mattress. (She is a terrible wriggler and still falls out of bed all the time aged 6 so I ended up giving her a full size mattress on the floor.)

Good luck!