My toddler son keeps rolling out of bed at night and it’s giving me anxiety – my DIY Dollar Tree bumpers keep him safe
A MOM has shared her simple hack for making sure that her toddler doesn’t fall out of bed at night.
In a clip uploaded to TikTok, she revealed her hack that involves a quick trip to a dollar store and little else.
Content creator Leah (@leahvidaurre) has more than 45,000 followers on the social video sharing site.
She bio states that she is “sharing my motherhood journey” and she often posts videos of her son’s routines and her daily life as a mom.
In a recent video, she shared her simple solution for ensuring that her son stayed safely tucked up in bed each night.
The clip opened showing Leah heading into a Dollar Tree to pick up some brightly colored pool noodles.
She said: “My son keeps rolling out of his bed at night. It’s a Montessori bed – oh wait, sorry, I keep getting called out by all the Karens online. It’s a mattress on the ground.”
The clip then cut to Leah smilingly placing the pool noodles onto her son’s mattress on the floor of their home.
She continued: “Anyways, he keeps rolling out of his bed at night and this is interrupting his sleep.
“I’m up all night with anxiety thinking he’s going to roll out so it’s really just not working.”
Using sticky tape, Leah taped three pool noodles together at a time to make a three-sided bumper, arranging them into a triangle shape.
She said: “I decided to make these bumpers out of pool noodles, so I went to the local dollar store and I taped them up in kind of like a triangle shape.”
The influencer lifted the sheets and bedding off the mattress and placed the pool noodle bumpers on either side of the bed, leaving the bottom edge open.
She said: “I’m putting them on two sides. I’m going to leave one side of the bed open so he can get in and out.”
Leah continued: “He’s been getting really good at regulating himself. When he’s tired, he crawls into bed and falls asleep. When he’s not tired, he gets out and plays.
The video ended with Leah rolling happily around in her son’s bed, demonstrating how the bumpers prevented her from falling off.
She said: “I did test them – they kept me in the bed! So here’s to sleeping through the night.”