Anyone's 3+yo still in a crib???

knmommy

Allison is still in a crib, we have the toddler bed in the garage.  She hasn't yet climbed out of the crib, so why mess with a good thing.  She is my "free spirited" child, so I am scared to put her in a bed, it could be ugly.  Only thing is, the PT, she wears undies to bed and doesn't have accidents.  But if she has to go she can't get out.  uggg. 

emilykristene2006

DD is. Her pedi told me to get her in a toddler bed last week. She's been tossing and turning and I know she needs something more comfortable. We'll move her out soon.

fricksgirl

Hey!

I'm usually on my local board but lurking over here b.c it's so early still here in California.  Anyway-

My son will be 3 in August and he LOVES his crib!  My plan is to keep him in there as long as possible!  He is also PT and if he needs to go he just shouts out for us and we go get him.  He also has (knock on some serious wood) never even attempted to get out- although he totally could.  Which is surprising since he is a super active kid. 

We call his crib his "happy place".  Fine by me!

kittycarr

Brooke will be 3 in a month and she's nowhere near coming out of her crib.  She loves being surrounded.  I still have her bumper on and on each rail are blankets so it stays dark in her crib.  She has like 20 little carebears, some big ones, other little animals and somehow she still finds room to sleep.

dpdw

**Raising hand***  DS will be 3.5 next month & he's still in the crib.  He climbed out once, but we were stern enough with him that he hasn't tried it again.  He's not fully PT'd yet, but we're working on it this weekend, so maybe we'll do the bed transition too.  My only problem is that DS sleeps in these special orthodic shoes on a bar (he was born with clubfeet) and he can't get on the potty himself wearing the shoes -- so I have to help him anyway.

butterbeansmama

DS is potty trained (has been for a couple of months), but everytime he needs to go potty, he yells for me to come get him.

Now that he is in a daybed, he is not allowed out until I get him, so it's the same idea. He can't pull down his own pants yet anyway.

DaiLyght

DS is 3.5 and is still in his crib. He's never tried to climb out and is very happy in there. I did try once to take off the front rail (so essentially a toddler bed) but wouldn't stay in bed all night and kept coming to wake me up. We finally put the rail back on. That was about a good 6 months ago now and he's perfectly happy having it be a crib again.

We've decided to try again to take the front rail off, but currently we're remodeling their bathroom, so we're waiting until that's finished for safety reasons.

He is PT, but if he has to go in the morning, he just calls for me. I put him in a pull up every night just because and 95% of the time he wakes up dry. 

WBs_Bride

DD was in her crib until about 2-3 months after her 3rd birthday. She loved her crib and never climbed out. Well, she did once during a time-out about a week before we converted her crib to a bed...but we were waiting for the mattress to be delivered at that point. She was PT'ed but would call to us if she needed to go potty. She also was in a pull-up at night still at that point. I was so scared she'd never stay in a bed but she transitioned really well, I think because she was really excited about her "big-girl" bed and truly was ready for it. I didn't want to push it, for sure!

mmbench

I didn't convert the cribs to toddler beds until they were 3 1/2.  They weren't climbing out, so I saw no reason to.

jack&masonsmom

Do you think that some of your hesitation to move her into a big bed is that she's your youngest - and it's a "letting go" hesitation?  I was that way with my youngest.  He turned 3 in April and while I didn't want to move him into a big boy bed, I knew it was time.  He rarely climbed out of his crib but we were PTing at the same time and we made it more of a celebration of him being THREE and a big boy to make it easier.  He and his brother share the same room so it was good for him. 

 I think that sometimes, if they aren't climbing out on their own it's not as much pressure on us as parents to make the switch b/c we think THEY aren't ready but it's really US who aren't.  JMO