active sleeper resulting in head bonking :)

[wendy1163]

howdy mamas.

my 19 mo has been sleeping in his crib for a few months now. he usually wakes up once or twice and goes right back to sleep. the past week he has been calling out frequently, not really all the way awake, but calling for me, because he hits his head on the top of his crib. it is happening during naps, too. I've tried pulling him down to the bottom of his crib after he is asleep, but that wiggle worm just finds his way back up to the top anyone else have this happen? I am not worried or anything, just wondering if my little night climber is alone in his excursions

[lifeguard]

Ds does this on our headboard (& on the rare occassion he goes in the crib). I roll up an extra towel or blanket & put it up there, then he just rams his head into that instead of the wood.

[MamaPhD]

OP I think we have the same baby! Well, except mine is a girl. We have the exact same problem! Well, except mine roams all over the crib, not just up and down. Sigh...

Thick padded crib bumers. I know people always say SIDS danger, but we tried a thinner breathable one and that was no good for head bonking. DD kept waking up. Went back to the "bad" thick bumper, now she STTN. Also, we have a pillow (skinny round one, like for lumbar support), and I know people always say SIDS danger for this, too. But DD is 14 month old and she is very capable of moving around, which is the problem to begin with!

Anyhow, so this is our setup.
(1) Crib bumper all around.
(2) Lumbar pillow at the head of crib
(3) DD's pillow (folded up receiving blankie) as low as I can put it with hr legs touching the bottom of crib, which is like 1-1.5 ft off the head of crib.

I find her in the morning with her feet at the head of crib (yes, 180 turn), slumped over the lumbar pillow she moved to the middle of crib, and her blankie pillow stuffed in the bottom corner. Sigh...