Moving around cot at sleep times

my oldest had figured out how to get out of his safety sleep by this age so i dont know if it would work. sleeping bags he got tangled in. In the end we just left him. eventually he figured out that we werent gonna keep coming in and got so tired he just crashed again wherever he was at the time. He gets up and walks round the cot all the time now and we find him in the strangest place. we originally started going in to try and lie him back down but he soon figured out that he could see us at night if he kept doing it so we just stopped. it probably took about a week and he did get upset at times but nothing else seemed to work

DD moves around the cot heaps too. I have given up on blankets and just use a sleeping bag and a heater now I reintroduced the sleeping bag at around 8 months with no problem. I thought of getting a safe t sleep but she likes to sleep on her tummy. I am just in the process of night weaning and have been using the verbal reassurance technique the sleep store have recommended with a bit of adjustment for.

What I do for naps and waking up at night is

Put her to bed say nun-night and leave (she usually self settles at night but not always for naps)
Wait 5 mins if she's still crying go in and say nun-night and if she's sitting or standing I lay her down and leave even if she sits or stands back up.
Wait 10 mins and repeat above
Wait 15 mins and repeat every 15 until asleep at night or until 1 hour has gone past in the day (never had to wait that long)
If she is just grizzling I leave her or if it's intermittent.

If she wakes after less than an hours nap I do this for 30mins then get her up 9/10 she goes back to sleep.

Most of the time she is asleep by the end of the 10 min wait or the first 15. I have been doing this for 2 weeks during the day and 2 nights. I was feeding to sleep for day naps and 2-3 a night when she woke (every 2-4 hours). She hasn't been fed to sleep during the day and now self settles 9/10. Last night she slept 7 hours in a row for the first time in about 7 months.

Hope that all makes sense.

We use a sleeping bag & safe t sleep. I introduced the safe t sleep about a month ago as I heard DS getting upset and found him with his arm stuck down the side at the other end of the cot trying to get his dummy and clearly wasn't going to sleep any time soon! He now won't settle without it and I'm wondering how on earth I'll wean him off being in it in the future! He doesn't try and undo it and I think it makes him feel secure (as we also used a wedge in the past so I think he is used to having something holding him in place).

The sleeping bag is great as in the colder months we had a blanket on him aswell but if that got kicked off it didn't matter so much.

My girls still do this - they usually wake in some random position, either upside down, across the cot or curled into the corner. I just put a blanket over them whereever they are (which generally doesn't stay on anyway) when I go to bed, and leave them to it. I know they move around at night because I hear the cots creaking!!

As for socks falling off....I now put tights on underneath their PJ pants (if their PJs don't have feet). You can get blue/brown ones if you think that tights are kinda of girly, but they are the best thing ever, because they NEVER fall off!!

We had the same here but think about it - they are soooo excited to be able to move around that they will try it out at any time. Ryan has learned that the most he'll get is me popping in, putting him back in position and giving him his dummy. No talking, no cuddling, in and out in about 10 seconds and I'll often hear him waking up, moving around and then eventually he'll go back to sleep. I'm of the opinion that it's just a stage and to roll with it until they figure it out. Good luck!

Both my kids did this, and I just did what kate does, chuck a blanket over them and leave them to it, rather than disturb them and then have them not want me to leave the room.

if he isnt crying and is pretty happy to rock about the cot, then id just leave him to it.
You could try a sleeping bag, but Id say he will still want to move about(they can stand and stuff in the bags still), it just means he will be warm where ever he falls asleep.

Oh and Kate, I do the tights thing too! Though not now as its getting warmer.