[oceanbaby]

By that I mean, without your mattress on the floor? We got rid of our metal frame (which I hated anyway) and put our mattress and boxspring on the floor when ds started being able to move around and possibly fall off the bed (which he did maybe 2 or 3 times). He is 2.5 now, and I am no longer worried about him falling.

I realllllllllly want to buy a nice bed frame, one that would put our bed pretty high up, but we are planning on having another baby, and will cosleep.

Does anyone cosleep with a high up bed? What precautions do you take?

 

[OhMel]

We have a sleigh bed that is pushed up against a wall. The gap between the wall and the bed I have stuffed with pillows. When ds sleeps by himself we put the bed pillows along the outside edge. We have a pretty thick carpet on top of our wooden floors so when he has fallen off he hasn't really hurt himself, just startled. That said, he has fallen off a few times but mostly before I started lining the bed with pillows. HTH

 

[HRC121799]

we have our bed on a metal frame, and unless we do decide to put it on the floor, i think we'll push it up against the wall and use rails too. wehaven't needed to do anything yet, since our littlest is only 3mos and our oldest is almost 4 years. good luck figuring it out too.

 

[nikirj]

We have a metal frame. The bed is pushed into the corner so the head and side are against walls; DH takes the third side and the fourth is partially bound by a dresser. DS sleeps either between me and the wall (the bed is pushed tight, not even space enough to stick a finger between) or between me and DH. The two upsides of this arrangement are that 1)DH has a bad back and has trouble getting out of bed in the morning if it is too low - this makes it so he can kind of roll himself upright - and 2)the kids can't just climb up there while they're playing in the bedroom.

 

[MaggiesMom]

We bought a safety rail. DD sleeps on me, usually (she's 5 months), and altough she has never even come close to falling- I sleep holding her- we didn't want to take chances. After reading recently about a baby falling out of a bed and the tragic consequences, I decided it was high time to make the sleeping situation even safer.

Just last night we side-carred her crib, with the crib against the wall and our bed against the crib. It just basically made our bed bigger/safer for her. She still slept in our actual bed, but on her back next to me for the first time. She did great.

 

[Mama Lori]

We finally put our bed frame back on our bed, but not until ds turned 4 1/2 or so. We probably could've done it sooner but someone ripped ours off when we left it outside our storage.

: Anyway we have carpet, I would worry if it was hard floors...I would get a bedrail if you've got a baby in there. Fisher Price makes a pretty decent one for $20 or so.