Co-sleeping & Hotels with high beds

[pantrygirl]

Hi folks.

Curious to see if there are any alternative solutions for folks who co-sleep on a floor mattress at home.

When we travel, most of the time we request a king size bed and sleep on the outsides of the bed.
Once we were at a hotel where the bed was extremely high. Even I had to jump onto the bed. DH was not keen on sleeping with our then 13 month old on it so he took the mattress down but only after he felt the hotel floor was clean.

What do you do when you travel? Do you pull the mattress down, sleep as barriers or have another trick?

Thanks for sharing.

[lifeguard]

Ds doesn't roll much when he sleeps - I don't know if that is normal. That said what I've done quite a few times is sleep on one half of the bed, line the other edge of the bed with pillows & then have ds sleep between me & the pillows. I generally have one hand on him while he sleeps as well.

[DaddyM]

Originally Posted by pantrygirl

Hi folks.

Curious to see if there are any alternative solutions for folks who co-sleep on a floor mattress at home.

When we travel, most of the time we request a king size bed and sleep on the outsides of the bed.
Once we were at a hotel where the bed was extremely high. Even I had to jump onto the bed. DH was not keen on sleeping with our then 13 month old on it so he took the mattress down but only after he felt the hotel floor was clean.

What do you do when you travel? Do you pull the mattress down, sleep as barriers or have another trick?

Thanks for sharing.

We usually request the biggest bed we can get, get the extra pillow(s) from the closet (or front desk) and make a barrier on one side of the bed. Then we TRY to contain her in the middle. She hass never come off the bed that way. Also, if the pillows happen to fall she has a soft landing pad if she should fall

[briome]

Depending on the room, we have pushed the bed against the wall (and found some 'interesting' things under the bed) or pushed the beds together. The rooms we ususually get are two queens so I slept with the little one and Dad would sleep with the older one. I have also 'made' a cosleeper for a toddler out of two armchairs tied together making a 'bed' to put next to me.

I've known people who bring a bed rail. It really depends on where your kids are in sleep, and you too.

[lalemma]

My husband is traveling for work a lot this spring, so I've been spending lots of time in hotels! In one hotel, there were two full beds that we pushed together and into the corner of the room (after clearing it with Housekeeping) - there, my son slept between me and the wall like he usually does at home (where we sleep on the floor). At another one, there was a King bed that couldn't really be moved against a wall, so he slept between us. But we also tried making a wall of pillows at the edge of the bed, so it was husband-me-baby-wall of pillows.

Our baby sleeps swaddled, so I'm not super worried about him rolling. Even so, I don't sleep as well when he's on the outside edge! Baby in the middle isn't ideal (for one thing, you'll never cuddle with your spouse!) but I think I prefer it to the wall of pillows.

[mumm]

Push the bed to the wall with a parent on the outside.

Pull the mattress to the floor.

We usually get two full or queens.

9 & 6 year old in camp pads on the floor.
2 & 2 year old on one bed with me.
DP gets the other bed.

[crunchy_mommy]

Sometimes we're lucky & there's a couch in the room, so we'll push the couch up against the bed to catch him (not that's he's ever fallen but I want to sleep soundly!) When he was younger a pillow was a good barrier but he's way to big for that to work now! If the bed isn't too high, a pile of extra pillows/blankets on the floor could cushion the landing... Also could try pushing the bed against the wall (if you could make it so there's no gap!)

[starling&diesel]

We just sleep as per usual, with DD between us.

[greenbeanmama]

We have collapse-able guard rails that we've brought along when we travel. I tend to sleep with my arm around her though, and we only have a queen, so most of the time it's no different than at home.

[mosesface]

I fold pillows in half lenghthwise and cram them under the fitted sheet at the edge of the bed. It creates a ramp of sorts that can't be rolled over or knocked off.

[Drummer's Wife]

We just have DS sleep between us (as we do at home). He moves around a ton, but hasn't climbed over us to fall off, so bed height hasn't mattered.