Moving to a big bed

[samuelboy]

With another bub on the way we have decided it is time to move our little man to a big bed. We put his bed up in his room today next to his cot and over the next few days will be trying to get him to have his daytime sleeps in his bed.

Can anyone give me any advice about anything!! All I seem to be getting is comments about how he will be getting out of bed now, which I expect but am a bit sick of hearing. How do you deal with it when your little one gets out of bed? I would try putting him in there when he's already asleep but he always goes to bed awake so that option is out and I'm not sure if this would give him a fright anyway.

As you can probably guess I am totally clueless and would love any advice.

Thanks.

[JodieC]

My DD was only 14 months when she moved to a big bed, it wasnt something i really wanted to do but as she had learned to climb out of her cot :banghead: I really didnt have much choice.

I used to take her to bed each night, while she was awake, then shut the door when i left her room and she'd go straight to sleep. If I left the door open she would follow me straight back down and i'd be up all night trying to get her to stay in bed.

[draught]

We found tht she would get out of her bed and play in her room. Instead of stressing about it I would leave her for 10 minutes at a time, go in and quietly tell her it was time to sleep and put her in her bed. Eventually she would fall asleep. She still wanders around her room in the dark then puts herself to sleep - sometimes after 2 minutes, sometimes after 2 hours. A woman I worked with said that they just left her daughter in there and went in each night before they went to sleep, picked her up from wherever she had fallen asleep in the room and put her into her bed. Good luck!

[busylizzy]

I'm going to have to put my son into a bed soon too. He's only 15mths but the sides of his cot can't be put down & I'm having trouble getting him in & out with my ever expanding belly. :ecomcity: Anyway...we put him to sleep in a sleeping bag at bedtime (when it's not too hot) so it will be interesting to see how he gets out of bed in that! I'm sure he'll find a way but he won't be able to get up to as much mischief (I hope). We also plan on putting a safety gate across his door so that even if he does get out of bed he won't be able to leave him room & will get bored eventually & just go to sleep. That's the plan anyway :fingerscrossed:.
Liz.

[~Chick79~]

We were comtemplating putting Ryan into a bed when bub No.2 arrives (he will be 14mths old) but he still utilises every inch of his cot I was scared he would fall out! We were given a second cot so in the end we decided to leave him in the cot, but...
What is the 'noraml' age for going to a bed from the cot?

[poshBecks]

When swapping cj over. day sleeps didn't work for us! So we started night ones first. We would do the ritual, bath, teeth, story bed thing. Then close the door. for the first few weeks he would fall asleep behind the door. We would put him in his bed when we went to bed. no he stays on his bed which is good. We slowly intruduced day sleeps & now he has mastered that too. The trick is though to do a similar ritual as night time. We read a story then onto bed. It works for us!! I have found that if you do the same routine everyday, there is no problems. Excpt for the odd occasion. ( Like today, he is still protesting an hour later... :o )

[poshBecks]

. but he still utilises every inch of his cot I was scared he would fall out!
We bought a side rail for his bed & put a mattress on the floor for the first couple of moths. He doesn't need the extra mattress anymore :yelclap:

[jkate]

We Aden into a bed, when he started throwing tantrums in his cot, we had the bed there anyway so we thought its time. We took down the cot, so there was no going back. From memory he was a jack in the box, would hop straight out of bed and out the door crying, so I stood at the door way, as soon as he came out I was there waiting for him. Being a smart boy he soon learnt to stay in the room, so I would put him to bed, go outside the door wait a minute or so and check him, now he was out of bed, so I place him back in, and I sat next to the bed, slowly moving away. We did this for a few nights, and he soon stay in the bed. There was a time a few months ago we would go in and find him asleep on the floor, we tried everything to keep him in bed, in the end, it was after staying at my mums, that he just stop. His big thing now, is getting out of bed and asking for "water"

Best of luck with your little one. Lets us know how he goes.

[Shajbm]

Oh goodness, we are in the process of moving our DS into a big bed and I'm not sure that it's going to be easy...

I'll keep checking in for some good advice.:thumbsup:

[cwsmum]

DS climbed out of his cot one morning when he was about 18mths old, and fell s****ing his leg on the corner of the dresser on the way down. That day I told him that he was too big for a cot and we were going to put a new bed in his room for him. We set up the bed in the morning, then after lunch we went out and he chose some new sheets. He only got a cheap set from Big W but he liked them and I didn't let him see the more expensive ones with the likes of bob/thomas/wiggles etc on them :p
He also still moved around alot at night so, as it was mid summer, we just left the legs off his bed for a few weeks so that if he fell out it was not going to hurt him. The wooden gate across the doorway didn't work for long coz he worked out that if you rock the gate enough it will fall out :rolleyes: so we got one from Ikea that screws into the door frame....took him about 6mths to work out how to get that one open too....

Good luck, hope bub likes his new bed :)

[samuelboy]

Hi everyone

Thanks for your replies. No success yet, I have put him a few times but he starts crying and run straights for the door. If I shut the door all hell breaks loose.

Oh well, will just have to keep persisting.

Thanks again.