It's just a case of gentle and consistently teaching the child that the cot is not the place for these skills and that being in the cot means lying down and going to sleep. Or just learning to crawl wanting to rock on all-fours in the cot. It's similar to a baby who has just learnt to stand wanting to stand in the cot a bedtime.
While there are problems with the child going to sleep, you might have these kinds of climbing/escaping issues. Behaviourally speaking, this is about the child seeing his cot as a place to sleep and not something that needs to be 'escaped from'. I'm assuming with you doing GW that baby doesn't just go into the cot and go to sleep? Once you have reached this point in your GW process, then climbing should be less of a thing. Lots of people do put tiny ones into a toddler bed. Again, this is a behaviour thing and you could do things to discourage climbing behaviour. Basically "baby escapes from this sleeping bag so I have to stop using sleeping bags" isn't necessary. There are also ways you can stitch the zipper.
Then put baby in sleeping bag backwards, so the zip is up their back.
The best I've found is using a zip-up one where when done up, the zip is at the top. Poppered, zip up ones with no poppers, zip from the bottom, zip from the top.Īlso loads of tactics to discourage sleeping bag escapees (many babies go through this stage, it's not a reason to stop using sleeping bags). There are different sorts of sleeping bags you can buy.