A MUM has shared a brilliant hack to make sure your tot doesn’t fall out of the ”big boy bed”.
Watching your toddler become bigger is an exciting part of the journey for many parents – however, it also comes with stress, especially once the little one is ready to progress to a bigger bed.
The larger beds often come without a side rail – which makes it easier for your child to fall out and potentially break a bone.
Luckily, one savvy mum, Amie Simms, has come to rescue with the perfect solution – and it’s so easy, you’ll wonder why you hadn’t thought of it sooner.
Taking to TikTok, Amie revealed how a basic summer item – a pool noodle – could add extra safety to your little one’s sleep.
She said in the now-viral video: ”We’ve just transferred our toddler into a big boy bed out of his little toddler bed.
”I saw another mum do this with a pool noodle and I thought I had to give it a go.”
The ”life hack”, which will cost you a mere 90p, is as straightforward as they come – simply take the pool noodle and place it underneath the bedsheets, before tucking them under the mattress.
To ensure the pool noodle wouldn’t move as much, Amie said she used two bedsheets – a waterproof one, as well as a basic bedsheet.
”I thought this [the bed] is a lot higher, so I thought I would give it a go – just in case he falls out of the bed.”
Raving about the purse-friendly solution, Amie said: ”It’s so good. It’s a lot more subtle in person, doesn’t move and has worked an absolute treat – give it a go.”
Amie, who posts under the username @amiesimmsugc, went on in the caption: ”This works sooo well! Is a lot more subtle in person, he doesn’t even notice it’s there on the edge of this bed!
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”It’s genius, so glad I saw it!” she went on in the comments.
‘This is such a good idea’
Since being shared on TikTok, the video has taken the platform by storm, winning Amie more than a whopping 1million views, over 16.2 likes and 1,032 shares.
A whopping 122 social media users flooded to comments to share their thoughts, as many praised the savvy mum for the handy solution.
One person joked: ”That’s a good tip for me after a night out.”
A fellow mum chimed in: ”Yesss and then when we go abroad we used to put an inflatable one underneath.”
Another parent wrote; ”This is what I did with my eldest. Worked a treat. But my toddler I feel is too feral.”
”How handy is this! I’ll do this for my girlie to save buying another rail,” a viewer thanked Amie, as another dubbed it ”such a good idea”.