Help! 16 month old has leapt out of his cot

[Ruby-shoes]

Any advice appreciated. He wasn't hurt because I knew it would happen sooner rather than later and made sure he had a soft landing. We will have to dismantle the cot this afternoon, but surely he is too small for even a toddler bed. And he rolls around so much in his sleep. A mattress on the floor? A futon? what do other people do? And how on earth to contain him in his room? He is now trying to vault the stairgates...

[sandy_rose]

Is he in a grobag? That seemed to prevent our girl from climbing out of the cot for a while, until she worked out how to undo the zipper, then we turned it back to front and that kept her more or less contained until age 2. They do stop climbing out once they realise it actually hurts... You can get bedrails to attach to the side of beds to stop them falling out in their sleep if you decide to go down the toddler bed route.

[Saffron]

We ditched the cotbed for a fouton around 14 months old for the same reason.

If you want to keep the toddler bed, you could try dream tubes to keep your LO from rolling out of bed.

[Ramble66]

Cotbed with bedside rail?

[dulwichgirl2]

Side rail as already suggested...

[Ruby-shoes]

Hello, thank you all for your advice. He does sleep in a grobag, bought in the hope that it would keep him in the cot longer, but he soon figured out how to unzip it himself. Wasn't keen on side rails as he'd most likely try to jump over them. So he has been bedding down on the floor and our new futon is coming tomorrow. Fingers crossed he will like it, we haven't had much sleep since Saturday...

[Shaggy]

Put the grobag on back to front. That'll fox him for a while. Especially if it is one that zips at the front not the side and you make sure to zip it from bottom to top.

Then when he has worked that out, inside out.

That should sort you out for a couple of months.

[esme]

We had same problem, resolved by converting to toddler bed with a side rail that you can put up and down (our son moves around the cot too!)... Gro bags didn't work with my son, he got too hot and anyway always managed to get out - houdini toddler!!