How do I stop my baby from pulling the crib bumper down and banging his head?

My 8 1/2 month old just started pulling himself up. He pulls the crib bumper down and looks through the crib bars but he keeps hitting his head. Do they sell special bumpers that dont move? I'm reluctant to remove the bumpers because he turns a lot in his sleep and always bumps into them.|||@rainwriterm - where does it say the baby is being put in the crib to play while awake and active? My son goes to bed wide awake and sometimes plays around for 5-10 minutes.





Bumpers are not recommended and even if you do have one it is best to remove it as soon as a baby can pull his/herself up. The problem with that is the baby can stand on it and topple out of the crib. You are better off taken chances with him hitting his head (he won't hit his head hard and probably won't keep doing it if he does!) than falling out of the crib.|||@rainwriterm - so your kids never wake up in their crib? If you don't have a real answer to a question, why put a stupid comment?

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|||How do you stop it? You stop caging him in there when he's awake. It's a bed, a place for him to sleep. It's not meant as a general depositing ground for awake, active, and exploratory babies when you don't want to be bothered to parent properly.|||get rid of the bumpers. they're dangerous and pointless.