Where is she going to sleep?

knitstrong

My daughter will be 17 months when the new baby comes. She is currently sleeping in a crib in her room, and my plan is to have the new baby in our room for the first six months. My question: What do I do when the new baby is ready to move to the crib? Maybe I'm dense, but is 2 years old too young for a toddler bed?

What did/do you ladies do?

kcisthebombdotcom

We transitioned my son to a full sized bed at 20 months and it worked perfectly.

I was glad to not have to buy 2 cribs.

etude de la vie

We got two cribs because our kids are 16 months apart but we converted her crib to toddler bed around 20 months. She did fine 

Couple of things I did that helped: I only had books in her room so if she got up to play all she could do is "read to herself"

If you don't have round door knobs I would get a small baby gate. You don't want Them escaping and running through the house (we changed ours to round door knobs).

Get a nightlight but not one that plugs in. She was like a Bug to light with the nightlight and was  constantly trying to take it out of the socket so I got the twighlight turtle or ladybug and it turns off after 45 min 

skyejo

We switched my DD from bed sharing to a crib mattress on the floor at 17 months.  She's still on the floor mattress at 20 months but only because we haven't carved out the time to go out a buy a twin bed frame and mattress. 

DD wasn't ever used to a crib though since we bedshared so the transition to a mattress was easy for us.