For a twin bed with bed rail, how do you sit & read to your kid?

westerngal · June 2011

We're planning to switch DD from a toddler bed to a twin bed soon, but I'm curious how you navigate the bed rail if you read to your kid at night? Do you just sit in a chair beside the bed? Or do you get a hideaway rail, and just put it up after stories are done? I'm wondering if that would jostle her enough to keep her from falling asleep (it's nice if she's close to sleep when I leave the room). Help!

supermom2008 · June 2011

We went from a crib to a twin bed and now get into bed with DS to read. We do have a hideaway rail, It is so much more comfortable to just snuggle in bed!

KristinKD · June 2011

We have an armless chair in DD1's room, and we sit there together to read books. When she was younger, we always sat in the glider in the nursery to read her books, so it was natural for us to have a chair for reading books in her big girl room too.

June2007 · June 2011

I just lay in bed with her. There's still plenty of room, even with the "extra long" rail we have. I was fine doing it at 9 months pregnant and I never had an issue jostling her too much but her mattress is very firm.

CareBear0607 · June 2011

Depends....sometimes we will just climb in bed with her and other times we put the rail away (hideaway) and kneel next to the bed as we read.

howleyshell · June 2011

Usually in the glider.

But... I climb in and out of their beds to snuggle before sleep all the time.

I enter from the bottom instead of the side. (picture bed with 1 rail up and the other side of the bed flush to the wall).

They're not asleep when I'm climbing out tho. Not sure how that would work.

DeputiesWife · June 2011

sometimes we read in her glider. sometimes I lay in the bed with her and i just scoot off the end of the bed - we have a rail that folds down but we leave it up all the time.

Pesky · June 2011

we sit at the end of the bed or on the floor. Or when the grandparents are visiting, he climbs into Oma's bed and she reads to him there.

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