After weeks of successfully cuddling together in bed, it finally happened. Liam fell straight out of our bed this morning and hit the floor hard. For our boy who is rarely upset by hitting his head or falling on his face, this was markedly different. The tears were immediate and it felt like it took me an hour to cross over to the other side of the bed.
I don’t think he was hurt (at least not too badly or in any obvious way), the tears were mainly fear-driven, but it will be a long time before his request to “get up on a bed with Mama” will be granted again. Apparently bedrails aren’t only a good idea for a toddler bed, but any bed in which a toddler sits for any period of time. I guess we can chalk this one up to learning the consequences of his actions (with minimal injury).
Poor baby. I guess we can be thankful that there is carpet in your bedroom. That was the reason that your twin bed in the back bedroom had a mattress slid under the bed. I would pull it out each nap and evening so if you fell out beyond the rail you would at least land on the mattress.
I don’t think I ever knew about the mattress–that’s genius! As for us–we have no spare mattresses (or space to store them if we did) and something tells me my design aesthetic would suffer from padding everything with egg crates, but between this incident and Liam deciding that yesterday would be a good day to try out climbing the furniture, maybe this is the point at which aesthetics have got to go.