Sidecarring your crib!

I did this tonight. My son is 14 months and it was getting squishy in my queen sized bed!

I don't believe in letting a child cry it out and my son will not go to sleep on his own, he needs us to lay beside him while he falls asleep then were good for the night.
His crib has been for decoration in his bedroom up until this point..he has NEVER slept on his own in a bed of his own for more than a few hours.
However we were afraid of him falling out of the bed which led us to sidecarring it tonight!
Has anyone ever sidecarred a crib to get a child used to the crib? was it successful?

Double post sorry!!

No I have never done this. I co-sleep with my son. He's 14 months as well.

Double post sorry!!

never heard of it but my son always loved his bed besides when he is sick

My sister and I both slept on my parents floor beside their bed (on our crib mattresses) until we were about 4. We both had our own rooms but were legitimately too scared to sleep on our own.

It is basically just turning the crib into a toddler bed and then raising the mattress to be level with your own bed! kind of just makes you have extra bed space!

I just wondered if anyone had done it to help their child become used to their own crib  

Quoting Taste the Rainbow:" never heard of it but my son always loved his bed besides when he is sick "

ok i just looked it up and i wish i would have know about this before i so would have done it but now riley is 21 months and is in the stages of moving up to the full size bed (the mattress is on the floor and in like a week the box springs is going in there then so on and so on )

Yea DDs crib is SAFELY pushed up against our bed and has been for a month shes 6 mo old, she fell out of my moms bed when i was visiting last month she just rolled we were all standing there and i just couldnt catch her i felt like a terrible mom and i didnt sleep for 2 days she was is fine though, didnt even cry.  

You need to make sure there is no way that your LO can slip in between the mattresses. In the Vancouver sun or province a couple months ago there was an article about a crib like that that is sold in the states and it's banned in Canada because there was some infant deaths.

Quoting Maebaby2012:" Yea DDs crib is SAFELY pushed up against our bed and has been for a month shes 6 mo old, she fell out ... [snip!] ... and i just couldnt catch her i felt like a terrible mom and i didnt sleep for 2 days she was is fine though, didnt even cry.  "

They are tough cookies! mine has fallen out a handful of times and I had had enough. You can be ask careful as you want but I was heartbroken tonight when he fell and felt enough was enough and sidecarred it!

Quoting 1st1ontheway:" You need to make sure there is no way that your LO can slip in between the mattresses. In the Vancouver ... [snip!] ... an article about a crib like that that is sold in the states and it's banned in Canada because there was some infant deaths."

trust me, it was done right   I have it bungeed to our bed

<blockquote><b>Quoting JlovesC.:</b>" They are tough cookies! mine has fallen out a handful of times and I had had enough. You can be ask ... [snip!] ... You can be ask careful as you want but I was heartbroken tonight when he fell and felt enough was enough and sidecarred it!"</blockquote>




Im am such a clingy parent idt i will let Ava in her own room until shes 2 or i have another one, :/ hopefull her rail will be up by 1 though we EBF and she sleeps through the night most of the time but sometimes its just so easy to pull her close and feed her.

Quoting JlovesC.:" trust me, it was done right   I have it bungeed to our bed"

very good!
thats important when sidecarring.