HELP! 6 mo rolling before I'm in bed!

[jenneyrebecca]

I heard my 6 mo. cry tonight and when I went into the bedroom, he was wedged between the bed rail and the bed! He's okay, but it scared me - what if his face had gotten stuck in the mattress? :(

My husband is gone, and it's just me sleeping with him. The bed rails aren't made to be on both sides, but I had to do that with them when my hubby left. I think they're just not as snug when I rig them that way. The bed rail was pushed far out from the bed, and he was trapped in it. I leave him in bed for a couple of hours usually before i come to bed, and this is the first time this has ever happened. He usually sleeps like a rock.

I can't find any kind of bed rail that looks like I could use it. I thought about getting a Snug Tuck pillow for each side of the bed, but the Humanity cosleeper is just too expensive. I don't want to have to put him in a cosleeper side car type thing.

What do you guys do with the baby when he first goes to bed but before you're in it with him? I really need help, I'm about in tears. My mom is trying to convince me to just do a crib, but he's still nursing all night long and I'm not getting enough sleep as it is. I feel really bad, what with the new AAP recommendations and I don't know what to do. Help!

Btw, I'm living with my parents right now, and they have a huge house, so I can't stay very close by while doing my evening chores while he's sleeping. At my house, it's different, but here I'm worried.

[mighty-mama]

I have a rolling 6 1/2 mth old. He does go to sleep before me and dh. As poor dh works a lot and is home much later. What we use in our house is a baby monitor. I literally place it inches from ds's body, when he moves I hear him. We do live in a ranch, so its not hard for me to peek in every so often. As soon has he starts to stir I look in to see if he's up, waking-up and etc. This works great, because usually when he's stirring he's looking for the breast and I go in and nurse him back to sleep. I also place a boppy on the side of the bed, just in case he tries rolling off the bed, but also I'm usually right there, since he's moving.

[jcmama]

I have a 7 mth old who is a crazy mover and shaker, esp. in bed. Her crib is at the foot of our bed which is where she naps. She starts her night out there and by the time I am in bed, and usually nicely asleep she wakes up to nurse. She then moves into bed with mom. Works fine for us. I just use a pillow on her other side (hubby normally sleeping in another bed) but she is more often than not stuck right to me. What about putting your mattess on the floor for a while?

[earthcore]

We put a twin mattress on the floor of our bedroom. DD naps there and sometimes starts out the night there. I really resisted the idea at first. I guess I thought it would look tacky. And I didn't want to go out and buy a crib. But it's made a huge difference since before I had to sit there and watch her sleep. And DD likes playing on the mattress during the day.

[abe1329]

It makes things very hard when they start rolling. I still go to bed at the same time as DD. It's sort of a drag because I'd love some alone time but I do this for safety reasons and DD is almost 14 months...it's a long road :lol

[KSlager]

My baby started rolling around and scooting a few weeks ago. I panicked at the thought of him rolling off our our bed (almost 4 feet off of the floor) before we got to bed. The next day during a nap he rolled off of a low bed we keep in a spare room. He wasn't hurt but shaken up as was I, needless to say!
I dreaded the thought of taking apart our huge, pine 4 post bed and THEN where to put it?? However, I dreaded even more the possibility of my baby being seriously injured because I wanted to sleep in my "big bed"!

SOOOOOOO ....
We took the bed apart and put our mattress right on the floor. THAT VERY NIGHT when we went upstairs to bed at 10:30pm (Baby went to sleep at 8pm) he was sleeping on the floor - rolled right of the mattress on daddy's side! I was so thankful we made that decision! Yeah, it's kind of a pain getting in and out of bed on the FLOOR but it's only for a few years - if that. Sleeping with our baby and keeping him safe is so much more to me than having a "real" bed right now!

~ Kris ~
:hs: :nocirc2 :novax: :bf2: :homebirth :aqua: :fambed21

[momofelise]

I had a few scares myself before moving our mattress to the floor. I use pillows on dh's side for the hours that dd goes to bed before us (side rail is on my side; we sleep: dh, me, dd, side rail). We also use a monitor, so I'll hear if she moves. We've been doing this for a couple months now without any problems (dd is 9 mo).

[Mama2Kayla]

We had the same problem for a while when dd started rolling around the bed. We found this (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000E0JDV/104-3573853-0763957?v=glance) bedrail that sits on top of the matress, that way dc cannot roll in between. That worked for a little while, but eventually, we took the bed off the rails, pushed it up against the wall, and put an old matress up against our bed for dd to sleep on. Good luck! With a co-sleeping babe, you tend to play musical beds for a while, until you find what works best for you :) .

[jenneyrebecca]

Thank you gals so much for all the tips.

After I posted this and before I had figured out what the heck to do, he fell off the bed one more time (come on, mom, get it together!), and that night we disassembled my bed and stored all the parts but the mattress, which is on the floor. I actually find it much easier to pick him up squatting down rather than bending over the bed, and I don't have to scooch down to the foot of the bed to get out past the bed rails anymore. I'm hoping that when DH gets home in the spring, we'll be able to upgrade to a mattress and box springs, and I liked the idea of having a twin mattress on the floor in the room for DS. It IS only a couple of years, anyway.

The funny thing is that when we married, I made this big fuss over how my DH had his bed just on the floor, and I made him get a bed frame and we got a headboard and footboard I really liked, and a comforter set and made this beautiful cushy bed. And now here we are without the dangerous fluffy comforter and extra pillows and with the bed back on the floor! I don't know how he puts up with me. :o