Speaking of big beds....

[pebilz]

My DD will be 19mths when my new bubs arrives. Anyway the new bubs will be in the bassinet for a while but I'm wondering if by the time my DD is around 23mths will she be ready for a big bed or will still need the cot? I was thinking of turning the cot into a bed a month or so after bubs is born but I'm not sure if she'll be ready.

At the moment we don't use covers just a sleeping bag so she has free range of the cot and ends up in all manner of positions in her sleep!

What age on average do most kids upgrade to the "big bed"? Is there an average? I just want to hold out on buying another cot as long as possible! :)

[Milly]

My DD's Paediatrician recommended "As soon as they are old enough to climb out" LOL. And, my DD is well and truly climbing out now, so it is time. We are also upgrading her now as her little brother now needs her baby room.

[Shazbutt]

I put DD1 into her own big bed at 18 months, so she was well & truly settled in there when DD2 came along when she was 2yrs. I didn't want her to feel as though i was taking the cot off her....

I put side rails on her bed, as she also gets into all kinds of positions while she sleeps, and they are still on now (though she is going through a faze of not sleeping in her bed.....hasn't for months). She also only has a sleeping bag when she sleeps, and most of the time, her sheets and doona are just for show!

[Tan-mumof3]

Hi i put dd in a "big" bed when she was 20 months 1 month before ds was born, she had no problems in the bed at all, but if you are concerned about her rolling out you can get a rail and put a matress on the floor (just in case).

[cwsmum]

I put DS into a bed at about 18mths coz he had climbed and fallen out. It was spring and quite warm at night, so instead of worrying about him falling out every night I just put the mattress on the floor (wouldn't have done that in winter tho).
In the cot DS would move around alot and often end up completly turned around, he was also sleeping in sleeping bags on the cooler nights. I foud that once he had slept in the bed for a couple of nights he stopped moving so much and usually stayed with his head at the top of the bed, still no pillow at that stage. I short sheeted the bed so he couldn't wriggle down, rather than making the bed up at the bottom like you do a cot.
DS was fine with being in the bed, the worst problem we had was he was able to get out of his room, I don't close bedroom doors at all, so he would go and turn on the tv and get up to mischief if I didn't hear him wake up...the gate on the door didn't hold him in :rolleyes:

[yummmmy_mummy]

dd is 21 months and we have just put her in the "big bed" it doesnt have side rails but it does have a mattress on the floor beside it and shes only fallen out once in the morning while trying to get out of bed she moved around alot in her cot and had a prefered end that she always had to sleep at but she has not been like that in her bed she just moves down the bed not across

[jessgray]

my DS is yet to make the transition to a toddler bed. he will be by the end of the year though. coz bubs #2 is due when DS is 18 months. he can climb up and down the couch and stuff but hasnt quite got the hang of climbing up yet.

[melbryan]

We moved our son around 18mths I wanted to do this well before the new baby arrived so I didn't have to buy another cot. I had to anyway because he trashed his cot by biting it climbing out of it and bashing it when he was screaming. We now have a toddler cot/bed for the new baby and any subsequent baby's. I have two side rails on my DS1 's bed and he is really good with it. He started to climb out, so that's when we decided to move him I was very relectant cause now he can wake the other baby up.
Oh well we will wait till that challenge when we come to it.