HE CLIMBED OUT (or tumbled out) OF HIS CRIB LAST NIGHT.
He will be 16 months old in about 4 days.
Yes, his mattress is as low as it will go.
No, there isn't anything in the crib that he could get a leg up on.
Here's how it happened...He woke up sometime again around 2am last night, (after waking up at midnight) and I went in after letting him cry for about 10 minutes. He clamored to be picked up, but I laid down on the floor and told him that it was time to sleep. That didn't work as well as I was hoping, but he did calm down a bit. As I got up to leave the room, he got really upset, but I left anyway, and walked back to our room to the sounds of him screaming. I laid down on our bed, and no sooner than I started to tell Nate what went on above the intensifying screams of Weston, did I hear his little hands jiggling the door knob to his room. Oh my God, he got out of the crib! Leaping up out of bed, I went flying down the hallway, opened the door, and scooped him up. He immediately stopped crying and showed no signs of any injury.
I have no idea how he got out--did he fall or did he climb down? I didn't hear any thump.
Crib tents have been recalled, so perhaps it's time to switch to a toddler bed. But he's so young! I don't know how a bed is going to make this situation any easier. At least if he wants to get out, the mattress is 10 inches from the floor instead of four feet.
Thankfully, I am married to a fine designer who happens to work for a company called BaserMatter. Nate spent this afternoon designing a toddler bed for Weston (complete with his name laser cut on it!) and is now at the studio cutting it out on the CNC mill. Hopefully, Weston will have a custom-made toddler bed to sleep in by tonight.
I'm not entirely sure what to do here. I think perhaps pushing his bedtime earlier will help him sleep more soundly through the night. He currently goes to bed between 6:30 and 7, but with all the changes that are going on, I think he's getting really tired. He's napping while at child care, but I don't think it's been long enough.
Anyone else have experience with kids climbing out of their cribs or changes in sleep patterns after starting child care?
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