Co-sleeping: Guardrail recommendations?

[~Trish~]

You can buy the Safety 1st ones from Big W too. Also Valco have bed rails without stoppers, there are quite a few brands without stoppers that would be suitable for most beds. I prefer Safety 1st because you don't have to remove the guard when making the bed, you can just fold it down.

[Ginger]

i noticed the safety first one is on special at big w atm.

[relw]

Hi there, I'm posting this ages after your conversation finished but thought you might like to hear my cautionary tale...

I have my mattress on the floor and recently put a guardrail along one side of it (the other side is against a wall). My DS is nearly 9 months and active, so last week he pulled himself up to standing along the guardrail, which went about 20cm above our bed, and flipped (tumbled) over the top of it and onto his head. Fortunately it wasn't a big fall and he was fine but it was pretty scary. I was in the bed at the time and just didn't think that it would happen - thought we only needed to worry about that sort of thing happening when he was in bed alone (we co-sleep). We had the guardrail on the bed when it was on it's base (it's an ensemble) but I got worried about safety when he started pulling himself to stand, so a few days before this happened put the mattress on the floor - am so glad we did!

I guess all I'm trying to say is that the guardrail is helpful but not totally protective against accidents. We took it away and just put pillows on the floor to cushion him if he falls (it's only about 20cm).