Is my only option to take my bed apart?

[HeliMom]

Hi all,
the LO is 9 months old and has been waking up in the am before I do (we bedshare) I open my eyes to her sitting up in the middle of the bed. Our bed is high up and we have wood floors. I have a tres tria tha goes on the other side of her when DH gets up for work but now that she's just started standing on her own and trying to take her first steps I'm a little nervous she'll try to get out of our bed before me.

Is there anything I can do short of taking the frame off the bed and baby proofing the room and getting a gate for the doorframe (our bedroom door doesn't shut)

[Maluhia]

I think in your situation I would put my bed on the floor although I don't know if a door gate would be needed, do you think she'd really adventure away from you?

[HeliMom]

yes, she'd definately go on a little adventure if she was on the ground, she cruises/ crawls to other rooms to play. I often have to get her out of Grandma's cabinets in the dining room if I'm cooking in the kitchen.

I was trying to avoid taking the bed apart since I don't have a closet to keep the clothes that live under there. Ah well. I guess I can't turn a queen sized bed into one huge crib can I?

[HeliMom]

Please

any other suggestions? I could really use a few ideas!

[Friday13th]

Can she climb safely out of bed yet? We started working on that before DS could even crawl, I'd turn him around at the edge of the bed and guide his feet over and onto the floor and then cheer like a lunatic (we don't do a lot of over-the-top praise so I was kind of trying to make a point) By the time he was crawling he was consistently going feet first off the bed so we never had to take it off the frame.

Whether that works for you or not probably depends on your child's personality. DS is by nature VERY cautious and does not attempt climbing/scaling/leaping unless he's sure of where his feet are going to land and even at 2 will stand at the top of a flight of stairs and wait for a grown up to accompany him down.

[laughymama]

When DS began crawling at 6 months we had to take our bed off the frame. It was a platform bed so we had no boxsprings. The mattress has been on the floor ever since. Now we have another one on the way so we're just keeping it this way for now.

We did put up a baby gate as our bedroom door won't shut either. He was pretty adventurous so he definitely would have gone off on his own if we hadn't put the gate up.

[jldumm]

yep, i would teach them how to get down.

[HeliMom]

thank you for the idea of teaching her how to get down I'll try that. I really appreciate the comments.