Ways to protect newborn from excitable toddler

[onthefly]

HotI. Hope you're getting plenty of care and support yourself
They do settle down with a bit of time. I had to laugh at the velcro suggestion. She'd probably love it.

[FabFiona]

I will be ordering a custom made velcro wall tomorrow. Let me know if you want to try and get a group discount!!!

[Arcadia]

gorgeous! Do you have anyone to come and take dd for a while? My midwife helped me by helping me see dds touching, pulling, yanking, smothering of the baby as normal! It still happens too, just now I don't have to stress so much (especially since ds is a giant and is almost as big as dd at ten months)

In answer to your question...my ds loved his rocker and seriously spent hours in there asleep in the lounge room...I just hid him behind the two couches (that sounds terrible! But what I mean is the vouches form a dead space in the corner of the room, so I'd put the rocker there...only if he was asleep though). For us it was out of sight out of mind.

My friend got a happy hang up hammock that hung from the ceiling in her lounge room.

Otherwise playpen for baby, or baby gates into a spare room near you.

Ds also spent a lot of time asleep on his change table, which was next to the kitchen (in the laundry).

Thinking of you