I wonder this every single time it happens, but I never ask. It can’t just be us!!
Does everyone else’s kids get their legs stuck between their crib bars? Its only just for a short time. They’ve all seemed to learn pretty quickly, after a few tries. But its happened to each kid so far where, they’ve clearly had their leg in the air, slipped it through the bars, and then lowered it all the way down. Then they scream and scream until we come running, and find them this way. We have to twist their body around lift their leg all the way back up to free them from their entrapment.
So obviously I’m bringing this up because once again, this has happened to Solly. Its his second go at it in the last three days. And the little punk lodges his leg between the bars on the side of his crib that is against the wall. So its not as easy as just lifting his leg back up, but I have to try and bend his knee the right way at the same time, and when he’s in so much pain, he’s not the worlds most cooperative, I’m sure you can imagine.
So this morning, I freed him amidst his screaming, and then tried to comfort him through breakfast, which seemed to work. During breakfast, he poured milk all over himself and his sleeper was soaked. So I changed his diaper and got him out of his wet clothes, and he took off, so I let him just hang in his diaper.
Over an hour AFTER THAT, he still has this big ole dent in his chubby little thigh 🙁
I remember, when this happened to Dekker, he would have dents on the inside of his thighs too, and they’d stay all day 🙁 Solly’s wasn’t even swollen at this point, but MAN! These chubby kids and their chubby legs!!
This cannot be just us!! Is it? There’s no real remedy beyond them figuring it out and just not doing it anymore, right? Some people have said in the past to use bumper pads, but Laela still stuck her legs past them. And then some people think bumpers are totally dangerous. So I have no idea what “the right answer” is on this!!
Help me feel normal here, just for a minute. Please!
We had a similar problem with Arthur. He was hitting his head really hard and waking himself up. He only got his leg stuck once, but definitely his arms. Bumper pads fixed it for us! Maybe if it’s a crib you have been using since your first child, perhaps the crib bars and spaced poorly and allowing your kids to get trapped. If it’s common enough to happen to all of your kids, maybe there has been a recall? I’d check with the manufacturer for sure.
I could look into it and see if there’s a recall maybe, but I’d be a bit surprised if it was the crib itself. Its happened in both of our cribs, and they’re completely different from each other. I wonder if maybe our kids legs are just fatter than average, lol, so they don’t pull out as easily when they slip them in. Beats me!
If it happened with 2 totally different cribs, then I’m stumped! That was my best guess.
It would make sense, but sadly, it has definitely been with both :/ Tho they’re both old cribs, so maybe it would be different with the new ones? I don’t know! Regardless, hopefully its short lived!