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Crazy idea to try to move her to a bed?

BoxTerBoxTer
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I talked to N's doctor about our sleep issues this morning and suggested the possibility of moving her from her crib to a mattress on the floor so she can get up and play when she wakes up. The pedi had an interesting take on it which I do think has some merit - she said if we're having trouble with sleep now anyway, we might as well try it because it's not like we have anything to lose and maybe if we can get her used to a big-girl bed, that will be one less issue to worry about down the road. But I'm not sure about all the logistics of babyproofing her room and maybe it's more than we want to take on right now. She has never climbed out but I wonder if maybe she's frustrated being in the crib and would be happier in a regular bed. I know I may be grasping at straws here and this may be the dumbest idea ever, but I'm willing to entertain all options at this point.
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Re: Crazy idea to try to move her to a bed?

  • firsttogofirsttogo

    Nolan just moved to a bed about a month or so ago. He does get up, but we are learning the art of "wearing him out" so he is tired when we put him down. At night, he has a gate on his door, as it needs to be open for heat in the house.... although living in florida, I am not sure you even have heated houses! Wink

    We have had to be super diligent on child-proofing though. 

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  • MereD19MereD19 member

    Honestly, I would give it a shot! Could you just take the crib completely out of her room, though, but leave the mattress in there? Then you'll know if it works, and then you could just buy the toddler bed.

    Also - do you have a video monitor? I was going to suggest that when she wakes up and plays, since you have doubts about it w/ babyproofing and all, you could just keep an eye on her that way until you trust that she won't hurt herself (or anything else!)

    Your DD is so precious, BTW!

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  • howleyshellhowleyshell member

    My gut check on this one is that providing her with more stimuli instead of less is not likely to improve her sleep issues.

    I know my GOOD sleeper had some set backs with the freedom of a toddler bed.  If he was waking in the night I think it would have been an exhausting nightmare. 

    But... if you're throwing everything AND the kitchen sink at it then it can't hurt to try.  You can always go back to the crib if it's a massive fail.

    But... if the logic is for her to be able to play with toys when she wakes up have you thought about just putting some in her crib?

    Jace plays quite happily with a couple of stuffed animals in his crib after he wakes up. 

    Our IF journey: 1 m/c, 1 IVF with only 3 eggs retrieved yielding Dylan and a lost twin, 1 shocker unmedicated BFP resulting in Jace, 3 more unmedicated pregnancies ending in more losses.
    Total score: 6 pregnancies, 5 losses, 2 amazing blessings that I'm thankful for every single day.
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  • BoxTerBoxTer

    Firsttogo - Haha, yes we have heat in our houses here! It was pretty cold here recently and now everyone's just gotten their electric bills and people are in shock!

    MereD - thanks for the compliment!

    DH and I are going to mull this over and see if we can come to an agreement. I'm afraid to make any rash decisions and end up wishing we'd waited. In the meantime, I'm going to read up on childproofing her bedroom. I'm not really sure what we could do with the crib. We don't have anywhere to put it unless we take it apart and I'm not sure I want to do that right now when we're still seeing how she does without it (if we go that route).

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  • BoxTerBoxTer
    imagehowleyshell:

    But... if the logic is for her to be able to play with toys when she wakes up have you thought about just putting some in her crib?

    Jace plays quite happily with a couple of stuffed animals in his crib after he wakes up. 

    She has several stuffed animals in there, including My Pal Violet, the one that talks and plays music and says her name. She just doesn't seem that interested in playing with them. She's never had a particularly special attachment to any particular animal/blanket/toy.

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  • howleyshellhowleyshell member
    imageBoxTer:
    imagehowleyshell:

    But... if the logic is for her to be able to play with toys when she wakes up have you thought about just putting some in her crib?

    Jace plays quite happily with a couple of stuffed animals in his crib after he wakes up. 

    She has several stuffed animals in there, including My Pal Violet, the one that talks and plays music and says her name. She just doesn't seem that interested in playing with them. She's never had a particularly special attachment to any particular animal/blanket/toy.

    Then I guess the question that would follow is what exactly will be different if she can get up when she wakes?

    More freedom to choose different toys?

    I guess I'm asking because we're still at the point where their bed rooms are mostly for sleeping.  We don't have a lot of toys in their rooms.  That means that when D woke up the first thing he tried to do was get out of his room.  I think that's what you're likely to face if you give her that freedom.

    Keep in mind that more often than not their favorite play toy is YOU. 

    Our IF journey: 1 m/c, 1 IVF with only 3 eggs retrieved yielding Dylan and a lost twin, 1 shocker unmedicated BFP resulting in Jace, 3 more unmedicated pregnancies ending in more losses.
    Total score: 6 pregnancies, 5 losses, 2 amazing blessings that I'm thankful for every single day.
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  • BoxTerBoxTer

    I wrote a reply to this but it got eaten, I think.

    I get what you're saying and I had the same thought. I was just thinking that maybe if she wasn't in the crib and felt a little more "free" that it would calm her down and maybe she wouldn't feel so confined. Maybe I'm overthinking this and thinking too much like an adult and she wouldn't feel this way at all. I don't know.

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  • Kim777Kim777
    We moved Rhett around the same age. It was rough. As howleyshell said, the first thing he does is get up and come to the door to get out. He has some books and  a few toy cars in there, but he does not play with them. We went from sleeping through the night, 12 hours, to getting up lots and lots in the night, and not getting up playing happily, but up screaming. We had to move him from the toddler bed to a full size bed to get him to stay in bed and sleep through the night again. I have no idea why that is better for him, but it works. I wished we had been able to wait at least 3-6 more months, but I had caught him with his leg up on the side of the crib. We have concrete floors, so the idea of him falling out terrified me. That said, if I was having sleep issues anyway I might have felt differently. I've heard of kids Rhett's age who did just fine, so it certainly could work!
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