The child falls from the bed
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During sleep, the child falls off the bed. My son is 2 years old and I'm worried. We tried to lay down the pillow on the floor near the bed. Yes, it helps. But I thought. Maybe it's better to put some kind of protection on the bed, I read about such baby guard rail. In this case, will it be useful? Are there parents here? How did you solve this problem?
You are on the right track with the link, buying the anti-fall protection.
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You should also discuss this with your Pediatrician. Habitually falling off a bed may be a curable medical condition.
Umm...I thought that’s what a crib is for.
Matt
Funny story: when my brother and I were very young, we shared a bedroom with bunkbeds. We both developed the habit(?) of rolling off the bunks while sleeping. Even the top bunk. Mom and Dad would be sitting in the den, hear a gosh-awful "thunk", run to the bedroom and find one of their two knuckleheads strewn out at the base of the bunks. Almost always, we were still asleep (or unconscious, who knows?). Their solution was to clear the furniture from the pitching radius and put a mattress on the floor to break our fall.
Years later, when reminiscing (to great laughter), I asked my Mom why they never built a higher railing for the top bunk. Her answer: "We knew you'd grow out of it, eventually." Parenting was different back then.
To answer your question, here, we used the baby guardrail on both of ours to great success. We also used the crib netting on our oldest because he was a CLIMBER and could not be contained otherwise.
Put the frame in the garage and put the mattress on the floor for now until he gets used to it.
I would do as South Farm suggested if it was me. We never had this issue with our kids.
My sister and I shared a room and she had the top bunk. She had a friend sleep over and that friend rolled over the railing onto our hardwood bedroom floor. She slept right through it.
I did not know my son was climbing out of the crib until one night I caught him climbing back in.
KPC for the win! Drop the mic and walk away :) ha ha ha ha!!!
Our kids are active sleepers. So we went the way our friends, who also had twins that were really active sleepers went... We just put mattresses on the floor. A time or two per week, we hear the "thud" and one of them is on the floor, but only "fell" like 8-10" or whatever, no biggie. Some day they will have a real bed... but not for a while...
"I did not know my son was climbing out of the crib until one night I caught him climbing back in."
Gets worse as they get into their teens!;)
We used the safety rail that came with the bed, they were designed so they could be bunks and came with a screw on rail. Took it off when they got a bit bigger.
That might explain his brain damage.
Somewhere about 20 years ago, I built my two girls beds that were about 5 1/2 feet or so off the floor so they would have more floor space in their room. I took care to make the beds stout enough that there was no danger of them collapsing. We're talking 1 inch angle iron as a frame around the bottom, 2x10 for the sides, 3/4 plywood for the bottom, all bolted together and to the studs in the wall with 2x6 supports in the corners, nothing was going to take those beds down. about 15 years ago, about 4 am I heard a crash in the room. I ran in there to discover my youngest (she was in 5th grade at the time), lying on the floor (carpet over concrete), tangled up in a sheet with blood running out her nose and one ear. I am a trained medical first responder, the one who shows up and handles things until the ambulance gets there. I have worked bloody wrecks (some with children involved), done cpr, bandaged people to stop bleeding and tried to keep some alive until better help got there. When I saw my daughter there, I couldn't do a thing. Thank God for my wife who jarred me back into response mode.
By the time the ambulance arrived, I had gone to the fire house and gotten a back board to strap my little girl on in case of back/neck injury. I rode the ambulance to town listening to her scream and asking me to unstrap her. When I wouldn't, she began to ask the EMT "Pleas mister, untie me. Please!" The hospital sent her on to Arkansas Children's Hospital. My wife rode the ambulance down there while I drove home and gathered a few things to take.
When they got there, the doctor took on look at my daughter who was beginning to not be alert again and told my wife, "I need you to sign this consent, we need to do surgery now." My wife replied, "My husband will be here shortly." The doctor cut her off and said, "I said we need to do surgery NOW!" The swelling on her brain was growing. We spent close to a week at Children's, sleeping on cots they provided in a room full of other parents.
Maggie recovered, in fact just got married last Saturday. She has no noticeable problems except she is deaf in her left ear (the one that was bleeding). Oh, and her mouth was smaller after the surgery. ;)
She doesn't remember anything about it until sometime after she woke up in Children's. I remember too well. When she and her mother or others begin talking about it, I usually have to leave the room, it still bothers me. In fact, this is the first time I have ever written anything down about the accident and I am having trouble doing this. I built that bed so sturdy a gorilla could bounce up and down on it and be safe. But, I failed to put any kind of railing to keep my babies from rolling out of bed. I firmly believe that is all it would have taken to have kept that from happening. I still kick myself over that. So yes, build that rail, try that anti roll pillow, whatever you can to keep that child safe. The chances of something happening are slim I know, but I also know the agony of seeing your child suffer.
Salagi, thank you for sharing.
I vote for put the bed in the garage and the mattress on the floor.
My girls went to a mattress on the floor for a few years after that.
We use the after market rails that you can buy at Kids stores, think we bought ours at a garage sale. My son just turned 4 and we just removed the rail. So far no falls.
Keep in mind that a number of children die each year from getting caught in cribs or rails that are not safe.
My oldest daughter Danica was barely 2 when she started climbing out of her crib so we moved her to a day bed. We got one of those mattress/springs combos so the surface of the bed is less than 2 feet off the carpet. We also use a rail and it works. She’s a very active sleeper and will end up sleeping at any angle and she’s been sleeping in there 6 months now without any falls.