When do you move DC to a toddler bed??

NewlyPrego · August 2009

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Halo79RN · August 2009

moved dd to a full size bed at 21months. started with the mattress on the floor for about a month... then put the boxspring under it... waited awhile (since she is so short , 10th percentile) before putting it on the frame. She moved to the full size bed we had. ds was outgrowing the bassinet ... it worked out great. she was not a flipping flopping sleeper. Ds is.. he's still in the crib... but swinging that leg up onto the siderail... we maybe searching for a twin for him soon.

dnagal · August 2009

This week, when she started climbing out of her crib.

DevonPow · August 2009

We plan on doing it around his 3rd birthday (the idea is to get him his "big boy room" furniture, etc. for his gift). But we may wait a while after. Most sleep experts recommend leaving them in their crib until at least 3 (yes, even if they have climbed out). I am firmly in the "if it ain't broke don't fix it" camp of sleep. As long as he is sleeping well in his crib he will stay there.

j_hope · August 2009

DD will be 2.5 in a couple of weeks, and we just moved her about a week ago. With our 2nd child on the way, I wanted her out of the crib (so the baby could be in the crib in our room) and DD #1 could be in her own "big girl" bed. We actually set up her bed while she was away camping with her grandparents for the weekend. She came back from camping..and we just told her matter of factly..that she was a big girl now...her baby sister was going to need the crib...so she got to sleep in her very own "big girl bed." Keep in mind though, we put the toddler bed in the guest bedroom for a good month or two and just let her go in there and lay on it/get used to it before we moved it into her room. We didn't want to scar her so we did talk with her about how soon she would be sleeping in her "big girl bed." It worked like a charm for us...it's been a week and she doesn't climb out of it...she sleeps like a champ....we were very lucky!

Anna&Josh520 · August 2009

We moved our DD about a month ago (23 mo) because she will have a little sister here in about 6 weeks... she moved rooms as well. Prior to our vacation at the end of July, we got the room ready, moved all her toys, and read books in there at night for several weeks so she was comfortable with the new room. When we got back from vacation, we put her in her new "big girl bed" which actually is a full size bed with a rail, and she has done great!

LM2003 · August 2009

14 months and we transitioned similar to how j_hope did

jnksmom · August 2009

We moved right after DS turned 2 so when we moved we made his crib into the toddler bed. He was potty trained at that point also and I wanted him to be able to get up at night if he needed to go potty.

Emmasmom30 · August 2009

At the beginning of this month. It was pretty easy and only one rough hour the first night.

Ali9381 · August 2009

We have a convertible crib and moved to the lower rail at around 20 months. He was climbing out several days in a row so we'd rather he have a much shorter path to the floor if he gets up. DS does stay in his bed though, haven't had many problems with getting up to play, etc.

HawaiiBrideGrm · August 2009

DevonPow:
I am firmly in the "if it ain't broke don't fix it" camp of sleep. As long as he is sleeping well in his crib he will stay there.

Ditto this! I allowed DH to move her early (she never climbed out and was sleeping like a champ in her crip! Ugh!!!) at like 22 months, and now she won't go to sleep without me laying with her until she's out. She was never like this before and it's driving me nuts, all b/c DH thought, "She's big enough now that she needs to move to a twin." Yeah, he's not the one laying with her at night. Men. (LOL)

brightning · August 2009

21 mos. The first time she climbed out of her crib (I actually found her straddling the rail) was the last time she slept in a crib. Her crib converted to a toddler bed, and it took less than a week for her to transition. Pretty painless!

MaddysMama07 · August 2009

We moved DD at about 20 or 21 months. She was climbing out and I didn't want to risk her falling and breaking an arm or something. She moved straight to a twin bed.

jen5-03 · August 2009

DevonPow:
I am firmly in the "if it ain't broke don't fix it" camp of sleep. As long as he is sleeping well in his crib he will stay there.

I believe this too. Unfortunately my DD hated the crib and was a horrible sleeper. We moved her to a twin (mattress on the floor) at 16mo and she slept much much better - she's still not a great sleeper, but it was a noticeable and immediate improvement.

heehee611 · August 2009

We moved DS right after he turned 2. That's wasn't the plan though - he wasn't climbing out of the crib or anything, and he was perfectly happy in it! But we bought him a racecar bed, and DH was so excited that he insisted of putting it together. well, once DS saw that racecar, there was no turning back! Although the pedi, and other parents, told us to leave him im the crib as long as possible just to simplify our lives!

We did have a night of him crying and getting out of his bed and trying to get out of the room. But we followed the pediatrician's advice, which was to only go in every 15 minutes, put him back in bed and tell him it's bedtime, and then leave again. By the 2nd night it only took him 15 minutes or so and then he went right to sleep, and we've never had a problem since!

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