On our last trip, Charlies Daddy and I seemed to be constantly taking turns to drag our semi-conscious child from the cold floor back to his airbed. We tried different pressures in it, from firm to hardly any, made no difference. He sleeps sideways, upside down all over the place, and mostly off the airbed in part or entirely.
We have previously tried a ready bed, but although he stayed inside it, he still managed to hang off the side of the airbed bit.
Has anyone got a better idea ? I thought about a double width self-inflating mat so that he could move around a bit and not roll off it, or at least be able to roll back on by himself !
I think a camp bed would be no good, he would roll off that too… (except maybe the Nash one that was pointed out recently, which looks lovely).
I just don't want him to get cold. Anyone ?
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Hi, we have a wriggly Charlie in the family too - my nephew who comes camping with us. We use a self inflating mat and lay a picnic blanket underneath it, so if he squirms off in the night he is still protected from the cold ground.
Why not use sleeping mats and line the pod ? nowehre to fall then ( what we do with our kids )
Yup, that`s what I was going to suggest. At £2.99 or so per mat, it`s not expensive and you don`t mind cutting them to fit. Plus it`s far warmer than an airbed, and makes a nice play surface for a child if they have to stay indoors on a rainy day.
I like the idea of sleeping mats - as I have a wriggly Alice. Although she seems immune to the cold. When she was younger I use to worry about her being cold in the night, as she would throw all covers off - no matter what combination I tried and whereas this had long ceased to worry me at home, it did when we started camping. I soon grew used to the idea, that she was likely to end up, minus the blankets on top of the bottom of the sleeping bag. Might take the sleeping mats with us next time I take a tent (rather than the trailer tent) as they will not only provide an extra layer, but may help the self inflates moving quite so much.
We have the same problem with our kids. They fall off of the Readybeds. They are fine with proper camping beds - but we don't really have room in the car for 4 concentina camping beds. So for our last camping trip we just took two camping mats for them, put these on top of a kid's play carpet we leave in the car anyway, then put a plastic backed picnic blanket on top of the mats with the kids' sleeping bags on top. They slept very well.
Both ours always fall off airbeds a few times a night at least. Our little wriggly rosie is the the worst for it, but we just went the route of padding and insulating the floor and let her get on with it. She seems to be getting better and falling off each time we go away.
The other tactic use to use a mummy sleeping bag and tie top tight so bag rolls off with them!!!!
We used a double sized fleece blanket on a single airbed ( over child when tucking them in)and tucked the edges underneath both sides to hold them in place
Ours is fairly wriggly so we bought the army type framed bed & he has never fallen off it (so far) he has managed to kick his extra blanket off but at least he hasn't ended up on the floor.
We line the sleeping pod with foam carpet underlay, one piece cut to fit and use a ready bed. My son also wears a zip up fleece pj (all in one) and although he wriggles pretty much everywhere he has never woken up because he is cold.
My 4 year old fell off the readybed each of the 3 nights this weekend. I had a tarpaulin under the pod groudsheet and he wasn;t too bad but i pushed our airbed upto him so he stayed propped up (sloping site so only went one way).
I don't suppose the portable toddler bed rails would work either side? If you've got them it might be worth a try, they are about £20 each, so an expensive experiment if it doesn't work and you go out and buy them!
How old is Charlie? We had a wriggly Matthew-now a teenager. He was always encased in many layers of nightclothes, at home and away, topped with an all in one fleecy suit with legs in. This kept him warm no matter what.
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Topic: Bed for wriggly child
