When did your LO move to a big bed?
Baby girl 2.0 is most likely going to be delivered less than a week after Keira's 2nd birthday. We are torn on buying another crib since Keira will be 2. BUT....this child JUST started STTN 3 months ago so I'm not about to mess that up. She's not climbing out and is sleeping great in it so I think we'll end up just buying another crib.
How old was your LO when they moved out of the crib? Why did you move them? Did they transition well and stay in bed? Did they sleep ok?
It's so hard to plan for the unknown. I just know we'll buy a second crib and a month later Keira will start climbing out of hers. haha
Oh, and we plan to wait until the 11th hour to buy the second crib, just in case. Baby girl will sleep in our room in a PNP for the first few months anyway, so it will buy us some more time in guessing what Keira will do.
WWYD?
TO ADD: K's crib is a convertible. We plan on buying her THESE bunk beds when she's ready for a big bed seeing as they two little girls will probably share a room down the road. So we don't want to buy another convertible crib.
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Re: When did your LO move to a big bed?
If you're planning on keeping #2 in a PNP in your room for a while, I would not buy a 2nd crib. K will be well over 2 by that point and should be fine moving to a big girl bed (LOVE those bunk beds by the way - have my eye on something similar).
That said, J is still in his crib and I have no plans to pull him anytime soon, so what do I know
Ella's still in her crib and I don't plan on transitiong her until I have too. She likes it and I think she feels secure in it. We rented a cabin last weekend and bought her a toddler cot thinking - Ohhhh - she sleeps so well in it at daycare - she'll do fine. WRONG - It was a complete disaster. Anways - a few weeks ago - I asked that and here's the linky.
https://community.thebump.com/cs/ks/forums/thread/43784674.aspx
I had to just go back at pictures and look because I really couldn't remember. I thought we moved him before he was 2 but according to pictures, we moved him right after he turned 2. It wasn't a climbing out of the crib thing, in fact, he never tried. It was more of a he still woke up a time or 2 in the night and I would always have to go get him and get him back to sleep so putting him in his big boy bed allowed him to come to me if he woke up, not me going to him. It let me rest a lot better.
With that said, I would not buy another crib if you didn't have to. Toddler beds are really inexpensive and it's definitely worth the $60 for a toddler bed vs. the several hundred for another crib!
I commented in the previous thread that was posted.
We went with two cribs on our Pedi's advice and doing what we felt was right with our family. You will more than likely deal with her getting out of a toddler bed so you just have to decide whether you want to deal with that sleep deprived with a newborn. I didn't want to chance it so it was worth it to me to spend another $200 on a second crib.
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I read your post in Cate's link and I totally agree with you, which is why we're most likely going to do another crib unless something miraculous happens with her before new baby comes. I do NOT want to battle sleep with two kids, especially since she just started STTN in her crib.
We are in the same predicament. DS will be 20 mos. when the new baby comes. I really want to put the new baby directly in the crib and not the bassinet but I don't think this will happen. I'll probably just have them in the PNP in the guest room for awhile until DS transitions to a twin bed. I just need a bigger house and more $$...lol