Co-sleepers - What do you do in the morning?

[Liz]

DD is asleep on the bed right now I develop super hearing.. and hear her when she stirs. It helps that I know she usually sits up and makes noise before she starts to crawl around.

DS was climbing off the bed safely at about 13 months, but I found he never crawled off the edge anyway, it was him sitting himself up too close to the edge that made him fall off.. took him a while to work out where to put his bum when he sat up. hehe.

[Ezz]

DS can pretty much get off the bed safely (backwards) - but I'm not confident that he will do it every time. Maybe we need to practise that. Thanks!

[Liz]

forgot to update. The afternoon I posted here.. she fell off the bed, coz she got up without a sound! LOL. She survived tho

[Melody7]

Have you got a baby monitor? I got one so I could hear DS stirring when I was in another room. I found this helped alot. When he wakes up I can hear him stirring (on the monitor) he calls out and I call back to him. That way, he tends to stay on the bed until I come and get him.

I also taught him to "Stop. Turn Around and Slide Down" - which he does now all by himself and has done so for a while.