How to get a 2 year old out of your bed?

teakum

We are wanting another baby after our April wedding but need to get Kateley out of our bed. We have spoiled her tooo much by rocking her to sleep and putting her in our bed. I am wanting to go by her a full size matress so that we can change her bed. Talk to me from experience!!!!! What should I expect???

Mrs.Gabortiz

Well, I can't say that Alex is *completely* out of our bed, but we are working on it.  He has a queen sized mattress on the floor.  I start off the night laying down with him until he is asleep.  Then, if he wakes up at night, I can usually pat him back to sleep.  Sometime between 3 and 5am he usually comes down to our room and sleeps the last couple of hours in bed with us.  I don't mind that, though, because it's fun to wake up with him.  It seemed to help to "move" the cosleeping into his room and then remove myself from the situation.

Good luck!

JillAly

I don't know if I'm the right person to give advice because DS is still in our bed but I'm determined that when he turns 2 in October that he be out.  The problem is that we only have a 1 bedroom apt so we have a space issue until our apartment is sold- but I'm working on it!

What friends have told me is to make a big deal about buying them their own bed.  Don't just pick something out.  Get her excited about it.  Look at alot of pictures, go to a store and let her see some.  Let her pick her sheets out, where in the room she wants the bed placed in the room, etc.  Basically, you want her excited about getting her own bed - calling it the big girl bed because she's not a baby.   I have a boy but one friend who had a girl said she let her dd put her doll in the crib and "said babies sleep in cribs, big girls sleep in beds" and that helped a lot. 

Good luck!!!

reemarie81

DH and I didnt get ours out until we had our second baby.  We had to lay with him for a while or use the supernanny technique of sittin next to the bed and move further away without lookin at the child.  It seemed to work.  No kids in my bed!!!