Advice on Sleeping Arrangements

[2girls&1boy]

Hi Everyone,

I really need some advice on what to do about sleeping arrangements. I am currently 35 weeks pregnant and have a beautiful 20month old daughter. We purchased a bed for Grace with the idea that we would have her moved into it by the time bubs comes along. The problem is she likes to get up on it and roll around in it and she says "Graces' bed" but she is so attached to her cot that she will not seem to sleep anywhere else. At all her sleep times she walks to the side of her cot and and says "sleeptime", she doesn't ever try and climb out of the cot, we could leave the side down and she still wouldn't attempt to get out.

Should we maybe try and put her in the big bed for daytime sleeps and see how she goes or do I just let her stay in the cot as long as it takes and perhaps think about buying another cot for bub#2.

I was going to use the portacot for bub but my back is really not up to all the bending over.

Please I am clueless as to what steps to take to make the transition and need your expert motherly advice.

Thanks in advance
Paula.

[tickle]

Hi Paula,
If I was you I would just get another cot / bassinet. I just worry that being so close to the birth of the baby and how aware they are now, that it would just be another stress on them.
O's cot has been converted into the toddler bed for ages, but we just moved him into another junior bed. But we are lucky as O has no attatchment to the cot at all. And he is so used to seeing it as a junior bed I don't think he even realises that the cot and his old bed are actually the same thing, IYKWIM? We raised the base and put the sides back on while he wasn't there.
I might be a bit pedantic about it all, but I think the little change around this time the better.:thumbsup:

[Bronte Pot-Pot]

I have been reading up a bit about it and there is heaps of "advice" out there in cyberspace. I have a feeling though that I will be learning by error as with everything else .

My girl will be 18 months when her baby brother arrives and I am concerned that he will grow faster than she did and the bassinett won't hold him for long enough - might have to go the porta-cot option if that is the case - because as much as I said I would like to put her in a bed before the baby comes she rolls around way too much and I am sure she would fall out of the bed. So I am going to wait until she is a bit older and do the whole moving into another room and new bed when she has got used to the whole idea of having a little brother to compete for attention with.

mind you last week I was going to be putting her in a bed before the baby comes and I might change my mind back - it is such a confusing issue!

I am sure I have been no help as like you I am at a loss as to what to do really http://www.bubhub.com.au/community/forums/images/smilies/laughing.gif

Bron