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Moving #2 out of the crib, and a question.
DD#2 turns 3 next month. We finally moved her from a crib into a twin bed last week. I was nervous because we waited so long to move her, I was afraid it would be a really tough adjustment for all of us. (DD#1 went from crib to toddler bed right at age 2.)
So far it's been an easy transition, with the exception of naps. The first night she stayed up 'til midnight and she and her sister were both running back and forth in between their rooms. But the last four nights they've both slept straight through the night and no one's gotten up 'til the morning.
The girls' rooms connect via a bath in the middle. They have both LOVED the fact that E. can get out of bed now. In the mornings, E. will go into Sarah's room to wake her up and vice versa. In a way it's changed the whole feel of the upstairs. Now it really does feel like their space. I was glad to rid E's room of its "nursery feel" and transition her into the next phase. She seems like such a big girl now.
Napping hasn't been as much of a success. Luckily she usually takes a nap at preschool on M/W/F. On Sunday we put her on our bed to watch tv and she fell asleep, then slept for about 3 hours. The napping is something we'll have to keep working on.
Sarah dropped her nap before she turned 2, so I'm not sure how to approach E's napping. If your 3yo still naps and is in a regular bed, how do you put them down and make sure they stay there? Did you have problems with them getting out of bed for naptime? What did you do to resolve it?
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Re: Moving #2 out of the crib, and a question.
well.....my 3 1/2 year old still naps in our bed. It was not worth having to fight and argue about all the time (not that I tried to fight that much). It didn't affect us having him nap in our bed and he still sleeps in his bed at bedtime without issue. As long as he napped it really didn't matter much where he did.
Thank you! That is kind of what I was thinking too. I don't care about her napping in our bed. I wish she'd nap in her own bed but I'll definitely take what I can get!
I obviously don't have a child, so feel free to tell me to STFU with my suggestion. But have you thought about giving her an option at naptime of sleeping in your bed or her bed? Maybe she'll surprise you & choose her bed. If not, at least she's napping somewhere.
Her choice each day is not to nap at all! She used to go down for a nap very easily, but the closer she gets to 3yo the less and less willing she is to take a nap. Bedtime is usually easier because she's sleepy. I wish she wanted to nap like she used to but she sees it as extremely undesirable.
That's how nap time in our bed started. He began giving me issues about not being tired (when he clearly was) and not want to nap at all. I would tell him he had the choice of his bed or mine....and that's when he started napping in ours.