Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Crib Woes

A few days ago, Mirei gained the confidence to start walking.  Unfortunately, she might have gained too much confidence.  Last night, she climbed out of her crib, and as far as we could tell, face-planted from about four feet above the ground.  Yikes.

Mirei's worse than Taisei about sleeping.  Maybe it's her parents' fault for being inconsistent. She doesn't go to sleep very well, and some nights wakes up often.  In the past few days, she's started grabbing the top of the crib and attempting to climb up.  We didn't think she could to it, but unfortunately, she did it.  She just barely started walking, so landing the jump would have been impossible.  Luckily, it seems like she wasn't hurt in the fall.

However, we now need to think of some way to keep her in.  I was thinking about shining up her crib with wood polish.  Wami suggested candle wax.  Maybe we could put socks over the bottom of her PJs to cover up the grippy stuff.  Any ideas anyone?

1 comments:

Esther said...

Maybe you should pad the area outside her crib so that she doesn't hurt herself if she gets out ... but don't let her see you doing it. Yes, I realize this is probably enabling her but it seems like if she's determined, she's going to get out anyway. I don't like those crib tents. I just googled after making these comments and like what this article says: http://www.helium.com/items/237520-how-to-prevent-children-from-climbing-out-of-the-crib ... although, I'm guessing they are picturing children older than Mirei. Smart kids.