Bed Rails for your child’s safety

The use of bed rails are something you’d normally think would be used as a precaution, by an elderly person, to keep prevent them from falling out of bed’. Another instance of their use would be  for an injured person in hospital to make sure they don’t fall on the floor between nursing checks. But another very important use for bed rails, is to attach them to a bed, for your little one, when moving the toddler out of their crib, for the first time.

Baby Cribs are great but the time comes when he or she has to move on!

Cribs are great because, and you know that your child can roll around all he or she wants during the night. You can be secure in the knowing they are safe and secure and that they aren’t ‘going anywhere’. But during the transition into ‘toddler’ and their new sleep arrangement the full size bed, they will no longer be enclosed and for the toddler who is very active during sleep and sometimes, bouncing around in the crib like they are in a pinball machine all night.Getting them used to a normal bed, without having them falling out of it a few times can be hard. This is the reason that many parents use ‘bed rails’ when they first place their child in a regular bed to sleep.

My son isn’t yet even out of his crib and I’m already worried about moving him to a regular bed. All night long I hear him bouncing off the bars of his crib, banging his head and limbs against the wooden sides. He doesn’t actually hurt himself when he plays, in fact he seems to enjoy his frolicking in his crib throughout  the night. But, I have to ask myself, what will happen when he suddenly finds himself in a normal bed, with no side safety rails. Will he go for a late night roll against the side of his crib, only to come crashing down to the floor?

Baby Gymnastics

 It is exactly  because of the rolling and gymnastics that I’ve decided that I will invest in a set of removable bed rails, So that when we move him out of his crib, he will be secure.  I’m hoping that if good old ‘common sense’, can’t keep him in his bed, then my addition of good old fashioned obstacles, in these bed rails will do the trick. Though knowing my luck, the kid will figure a way to jump the rails and end up on the floor anyway. I’m sure he’s part monkey.

If we started babies off without bed rails, to keep them secure in their beds to begin with, then transitioning to a ‘toddler bed’, wouldn’t be such a problem. Instead of a makeshift holding pen for babies, the new style modern crib could be say, just a platform suspended high in the air, with a mattress on top. The baby would learn quickly not to roll out of bed, because there isn’t anything to stop him and the fall would be unpleasant. Though perhaps there would probably have to be a set minimum age, due to risk to the baby’s ‘soft spot’.

Once the soft spot is healed, the baby can then begin to explore its world which would be boundary-free, where such things as bed rails, never exist, while learning the baby the importance of balance at the same time. Get the Bed Rails so YOU can sleep sound.

This is all very well I hear you say, but I will not risk baby falling out of bed. For your peace of mind get yourself some baby bed rails. Then you too can rest easy at night.