Cot escapee

Yes. We're resigned to the fact that he can get out of bed. Getting someone to come and put a fixed, HIGH babygate on his bedroom door, but until that is done, we're not putting him to bed until he's sleepy. Cuts down on him getting up. Also turning all lights off upstairs and shutting the stair gate.

He DID get out of his cot last night after I was in bed (mum was still downstairs). When he saw it was cold and dark on the landing, he was very willing to let me put him back in bed, and snuggle him up.

Is the mattress on the lowest setting? My grandson’s has just gone down another notch

Be prepared for Christmas stocking opening at about 4.30 am or even earlier now he can escape!

You could just let the side down on the cot if you haven't got a bed ready and waiting.
He would have a softer landing.

My Mother was a children’s Nurse for over 30years at out local hospital. They had cots that were made of sturdy metal and they stood on a stone terrazzo floor, far from a soft landing if any child was to fall trying to climb over the cot sides during the night. Any potential escapees where held in place by a heavy duty netting strung over the top of the cot and held down to the side rails using large clips similar to what is used on Dog leads today. The netting was very similar to the camouflage netting used by our armed forces today, except without the camouflage fabric attached. Mothercare used to sell something similar when my first daughter was born in the mid 1970s, they worked very well at keeping a child safely enclosed, but are no longer available today as trends in childcare have changed such a lot since then.

Greengran, my son was the same, walking at 9 months and in a bed at 10 months with cushions on the floor by the bed in case he fell. He became a dab hand at using a screw driver at about 18 months and if he could find one would take screws out of anything he could reach. Including on one a
occasion the plug socket. He was a nightmare.

My daughter fitted a trellis type garden gate instead of a stairgate outside my grandson's bedroom door. Her worst moment was when she had a frantic phone call from her sister, who lived a few doors away, and had spotted him standing, naked, on the window sill trying to open the window!

Beds..... as soon as they could climb out of cots......beds. Low if necessary ( I never bothered).... good old fashioned apple- pie sheets, so they don’t slip down too far...and a blanket to fall out on if necessary. A taller stair gate should solve that problem .

You just have to play it by ear. My first four went into single beds at around 18 months, but my youngest walked at 8 months, was climbing like a monkey before his first birthday, and was promoted to a bed very early.
My youngest granddaughter, who will be 3 in February, is still in her large size cot -bed, and happily sleeps with the sides up. She has never attempted to climb out yet.
There were no stair gates when my children were young. Like others I taught them to climb the stairs carefully and come down backwards. We never had a single accident. It’s better to teach children about dangers instead of keeping them away from them - age appropriately, of course.

Although this thread makes interesting reading, I really think the OP is making such a fuss over nothing. (sorry). Just put the little fella in a toddler bed and help him to learn about the next stage in his life. Every child grows out of a cot at some point!

Our DD1 was an absolute pest getting out of her bed (new baby in cot). DH used to go and have a shave next to her bedroom door continually saying “get back into bed”!
Eventually put her walking harness on her and passed it under mattress so she could only sit up but not get out. Only did it once and after that, when she got out, would say “right let’s get the harness”, she’d say “no harness, no harness” and then stay in bed. My dear sister threatened to report us (lol!) but she didn’t have this problem!

So tonight, we cuddled up in Gaga's bed, as usual and watched a little In the Night Garden and Dino Dana. When it was time for bed, we lay down (to try to get him sleepy before going into his cot, to prevent another in/out hour long scenario) but he couldn't relax. Took him to his room, at which point he ran out and got a fluffy (blanket) from his mum's room and then let me put him in his cot without a murmur.

I was on pins for about half an hour, in case I heard the pitter patter of his little feet, but no. Asleep in his cot, looking like an angel.

Handyman is going to come over between xmas and New Year and have a look at the job to be done for a extra high baby gate.

It is time for a toddler bed.

That'd be my grandson, glammagran. Maybe we should just put a bolt on the door.

Don’t want to scare you Gagajo but take a look at this baby climbing over TWO stacked stair gates. Someone sent me this a while ago ? Link not working that well but it’s in YouTube.

youtu.be/qyadDQ9CJeU

All this good advice is fine for your individual sitruation and child. None of it would have worked for my youngster in our house.

If you reach a toddler how to get out of bed safely, down the stairs safely they should be fine.

I think that growbags are only suitable for babies who haven't started walking.

Mine would have heaved herself over too, tried to walk in the growbag and had an accident.

Unfortunately grow bags didn't stop my GC, they just heaved themselves over the side and fell heavily on the floor! Same as everyone ese, once they had done it once the were in a bed with stairgate across the door.

I would put him in a bed (or a mattress on the floor), mine were all in a bed before a year as they hated the confines of a cot, I had the headboard as the bottom of the bed, the other end pushed against the wall and a bed guard along the side with spare duvets on the floor where the gap from the bed guard was so they had a soft landing if they got out, regarding the stair gate could you remove it and turn the handle the wrong way so that you have to push it up rather than pull it down, my parents did this with their living room door when they were looking after my niece so that they could keep her in the living room instead of having to run after her every 5 minutes as she tried escaping to the kitchen

Our little granddaughter only went into her junior bed a fortnight ago and she’s 3y next month! In the cot she slept in a zipped ‘growbag’ a bit like a portable duvet with armholes so pyjamas underneath.

I’d defy any baby to climb out of a cot wearing the equivalent of a sack! There’s no traction as the legs aren’t free.

Ds climbed out of his cot at 9 months, went into a bed and that was that! He never fell out of it or wandered around at night unlike DD ?

My children were all in beds by this age. They never seemed bothered about climbing over the gate to get out of their rooms, but didn’t like being contained in a cot.

My elder daughter went into a bed at 15 months because the new baby needed the cot. Not a problem - put pillows on the floor for a few weeks in case of a fall. A gate on the bedroom door was fairly effective and I reinforced that verbally with "No climbing!" instruction when she tried to get over it.

My husband made a gate for our stairs. The girls couldn’t reach the catch to open it