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Crib Climber~Advice Please!

juliagulia322juliagulia322 member
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I just need some advice. Hurricane Sandy hit my area pretty hard and I was one of the fortunate ones that only lost power but it was for seven days. My family lived with family and friends for five of those nights. The boys slept in pack n plays but had a pretty hard time adjusting and sleeping like they usually do (7:30-7 without waking up before the hurricane hit). So my one son wound up sleeping with me on the floor because that's where we were all sleeping. Now he is having a HORRIBLE time going to sleep on his own. I think it is separation anxiety. He wants me to rock him which is fine but won't go right in his crib which used to not be an issue at all. He has climbed out of it twice which he has never done before. I don't think he is ready  to go to the toddler bed especially that his twin brother is in the room with him and I'm afraid with what might happen to have them both in beds. Do you have any other suggestions than changing it to a toddler bed. I was thinking of placing the front of the crib against the wall so he can't climb out since the back is so high. I feel like he is a newborn all over again! Sorry so long. Any advice is appreciated.
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  • LuvWIfootballLuvWIfootball member
    I have no personal experience with this, but on one of the FB groups that I joined, a mom turned the cribs around so that the back was in the front.  She also taped pillows on the side rails to make the higher.  Another mom took the mattress support out and put the mattress directly on the floor so that her triplets couldn't get out.  There is a chance of them climbing out from under the crib, but the space looked pretty small based on the pics she showed.

                          

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    I took the front face off of my girls' cribs when each of them was capable of climbing out... I didn't bother flipping, there's just too much risk imo. I turned their cribs into daybeds as soon as I knew they could pull up and over the railing. Have you tried putting him back in a pack n play since he's started climbing out of the crib? A PnP is at least closer to the ground, and more difficult to get out of, in my experience. 

    I know it's going to be worse with the boys waking each other up when I have to take the fronts of their cribs off... but the kinds of injuries a kid can get climbing out of a crib just aren't wort it, to me.  

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  • juliagulia322juliagulia322 member
    The first night in the pack n play he climbed out of it also.  I'm going to get the crib guard rails today and turn them into beds. Hopefully it won't be as bad as I think it will be:)
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