Transitioning 1-2 yr olds into own room/bed from cosleeping?

jaymiegerard

Hi :-)

I currently sleep in the guest room with my 1 yr old, on a queen-sized mattress on the floor with toddler rails around it to prevent roll-offs. He sits up and crashes down in his sleep, so the crib was becoming hazardous as he'd smash his head against the rails accidentally multiple times.   I nurse him to sleep, and he still wakes lots of times during the night (5+ times every night).

I think I'd like to try to help transition him into his own room, but I'm not sure how to go about it.  Should we try the crib again? Buy a full-sized mattress? A toddler bed? A twin mattress?  I'm a little overwhelmed!

Has anyone had experience transitioning from co-sleeping to his/her own room, and if so, how did you do it?

Thanks so much!

ncbelle

Here's what I did with Callum - https://www.becomingmamas.com/little-kid-big-bed/.

With Eleanor (we are in the middle of transitioning now), we are doing it a bit differently.  She and Callum are sharing a room and because of space issues, we actually put her in a toddler bed...so not so easy for me to sleep in there with her  Right now, she starts the night in there - DH handles any wakings before say 2 or so (unless he is working) - and after that she sleeps with me.  At some point we'll work on just getting her back to sleep in there...but that means I have to stay awake so I'm a wee lazy about it.  If she does what Callum did though, she'll just start STTN more on her own. 

nosoup4u

Both of my kids slept in bed with us, and then started sleeping on a crib mattress next to our bed (we have our mattress on the floor, too).

With DS1, we moved him into an Ikea toddler bed (they're bigger than average toddler beds) in our room, and he did great with it. He was about 22 months or so, and moved into his own room a few months later.

With DS2, we had him on a twin mattress in our room, but away from our bed for a few months. We recently moved our bed out of that room, and he's in there by himself at night. My DH took over bedtime and nighttime, and DS2's gotten better about sleeping. I've recently taken over, and he's really good at falling back to sleep after a teeny bit of nursing.