toddler bed transition or stay in the crib??

AndiMarv2008

Good morning- I am on here a lot reading, just dont post too often. My son is 16 months and will be close to 19 months when my daughter arrives in July. Right now he sleeps in the nursery in his crib. He is a great sleeper and is STTN. He is a climber, but he is small and no where near getting over the rail yet. His room is the nursery and will be our daughters nursery once she arrives, however here is where it gets a little tricky. We are debating if we should move him into his big boy room with a toddler bed. Its not set up yet, or anything. My husband wants to keep him in the nursery, let the baby sleep in the rock and sleeper bassinet and then transition them to new rooms when they are ready. I agree this sounds like a great idea.. but lets be realistic getting a toddler room and a baby nursery put together at the same time with 2 young kids around... who does he think has time to do this? Im also worried that my son will think the baby is taking his room and it will be hard transition. And my other concern is where does all the baby stuff go- until we move her into the nursery. Its kind of hard to nest when there is no room to organize... Does that make any sense? It all sounds like a lot of work to me just not to buy/borrow another crib.... Any suggestions or comments are welcome. Thanks girls!

akbride25

You could move him to his new room, but move the crib with him. You can buy the accessories for his bigger bed, but save them for when you make the switch. My DS and DD were 18.5 months apart and we ended up buying a second crib. He wasn't ready to make the switch, but we wanted our daughter get used to a crib from the start. We also converted our son's crib to a toddler bed for a while before we moved him into a twin bed.

Daisy22

We moved DS1 into his new room with a twin bed at 13.5mths and DS2 whose about to 18mths just moved in with DS1 into a twin bed last weekend. Both transitions were/have been very easy. DS1 had an extra long rail on the twin bed until he was a little over 2 and now ds2 has the rail on his bed. Ds1 never had issues and we never lost sleep. So far Ds2 is following in his big brothers foot steps. He's loving his new bed. It's nerve wrecking doing it and making the jump but both times for us have worked. I alos have several other friends that moved their kids to twin beds before the LO turned 2 and had simiar experiences.

silkyhorse

akbride25:

You could move him to his new room, but move the crib with him. You can buy the accessories for his bigger bed, but save them for when you make the switch. My DS and DD were 18.5 months apart and we ended up buying a second crib. He wasn't ready to make the switch, but we wanted our daughter get used to a crib from the start. We also converted our son's crib to a toddler bed for a while before we moved him into a twin bed.

This is basically what we did, too.  The twin bed is actually already in DS's room, but he's still in his crib, and we bought another crib off of Craigslist for the new baby.  Even with still being in his crib, he woke up crying in the middle of the night for the first three nights in the new bedroom.  My son LOVES his routines and doesn't take well to change  

Rink08

We are in a very similar situation. I am also due in July & DS2 will be around 19 months as well. We have the option of giving the kids separate nurseries or having them share one and have chosen to keep DS2's current room as the only nursery. We will have LO in our room at night in a bassinet but he will sleep in his crib in the nursery during the day and transition to the crib around 6 months. Once the kids are a little older and DS2 is in a toddler bed, we'll move DS2 to a different room and keep LO in the nursery.

Our nursery is big enough for both sets of furniture so storage wasn't an issue for us. We were given LO's crib by a parent at DS1's school who is done having kids and have bought pretty much everything else that we'll need at a consignment sale where we also sold items. We started rearranging the room this week so DS2 will be used to the change before LO arrives. I started on the closet today and would be in there now if DS2 weren't sleeping. I've got the nesting bug bad this time around.