[redfred]

I need help trying to keep my daughter safe at night. J just turned 5. She does not sleep hardly at all (we are seeing a specialist to try to address the physical side of this issue). Since she is awake most of the night she tends to get bored. She has an insatiable curiosity and loves to take anything and EVERYTHING apart. She is not destructive for any other reason than that she wants to know what is inside things and/or how things come apart (she’ll make a great mechanic probably by age 6!). If it doesn’t come apart, she’ll smash to see if it will. And add to that the fact that all small pieces still go in her mouth at times… She perfected “stealth mode” three years ago and it is IMPOSSIBLE to hear her! We have looked into alarm systems with motion detectors but she can beat all the newest technology! (She is only 30 pounds so most detectors will not even register her little body and those that will will allow for her to creep ever so slowly right through them!) My question is if anyone else has had to deal with this, how do you keep a child safe while the rest of you sleep?? I don’t really want to do a door alarm because the sound will wake up everyone in the house (we have infants who are super light sleepers as well). We have had to go back to locking her door at night (she was adopted at birth so the foster guidelines of never doing this don’t apply to her). I hate doing this, but the last time we didn’t she left her room and got the scissors (which we keep way out of reach) and cut her own hair…and she has crawled into the baby’s crib to hold him as well! We put her little potty chair in her room at night so she can always have access to that. She has bars on her windows because she has been able to go out them for several years now. Add to that the fact that she can go over the wall between our houses here, she can climb a pool fence in under 15 seconds and she has no fear. Plus, several houses have pools here that are not properly secured (not that it makes any difference when the kid can climb a block wall and then the pool fence). My point is, does anyone have any additional suggestions or ideas for how to keep my baby safe (mainly from herself)?? Thanks!