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Transitioning to big kid bed

SFAug07SFAug07 member
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Tonight is the first night we tried to transition Sarah to her big girl bed. It's 9 pm now and she is still awake. She was super excited about the new bed as we made a big deal of it, with great new sheets and an Elmo book about transitioning to a new bed. But when I left her room, she started calling for me. DH is now sitting in her room to calm her and I can see on the monitor that although she is is calm, she is still awake. I don't even want to think about her waking up at night and finding herself in the new bed...it's going to be a rough night! If you have made the transition to a big kid bed, how did it go? How long until they were good with it? Just trying to mentally prepare myself...or decide whether we should go back to the crib for some more time.
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Re: Transitioning to big kid bed

  • ateytelbateytelb
    From what I remember J. liked his car shaped toddler bed right away, but the problem was he was able to get off of it, come to out bedroom, and climb into our bed in the middle of the night. He is still doing it...
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  • BrideBuddiesBrideBuddies member

    We haven't done it yet, but will have to go cold turkey on the crib since C's bed is a convertable crib to toddler bed thing.  No going back once we switch.   And even though I've caught him on the top rail a few times, so far, it doesn't seem like he's all that anxious to get out of the crib.

    We do have a gate we'll put across his door so he can't roam the house.

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  • Piranha54Piranha54
    Kathi - waiting to hear other's responses as well as we are almost there.  Like BB, we have a convertible bed, so there's no going back once we change it over.  DD has shown some interest in climbing out, but only when we have been in the room so far...from everything I've heard, it sounds like the transition leads to a few rough nights.  Let us know how tonight goes. 
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  • StrunellaStrunella member
    I don't know anything about this since I have a 6 month old, but isn't 2 young for a bed?  I thought kids moved to beds more around two and a half, or a little older even?  Or are they starting to climb out of the crib at that point so it's best to move them to a bed? 
     
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  • SassystaceSassystace
    We moved DD at about 27 months to a twin bed with a safety bedrail in order to avoid buying a second crib. Abby did really well--better than we expected.  The first night she got right out of bed, but we put her back and told her she had to stay in the bed and not get out unless we got her.  We were still having problems with her getting out of bed (and leaving the room) so we locked her bedroom door (switched her door knob around so the lock is on the outside).  The first night we did this, she banged on it yelling "let me out of here!"  We basically did the Ferber method of checking on her every 10 minutes if she was still yelling and putting her back in her bed if she was out.  This makes it sound like it was terrible, but she basically went through all this for about 30 minutes the first night and less than 30 minutes the second night and after that she basically learned the rules and it's worked great.  Now that she is older and potty trained, we unlock her door when we check on her before we go to sleep so she can get up to go potty or come get us at night if she has a bad dream.  You could use a gate in her doorway if you don't want to lock the door.
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  • PeskyPesky member

    DS, pretty much zero issues.  DD, took about 2-3 wks transition.  We had to sit in there on her bed for a while and what we did was make zero eye contact with her or talk, even to "shh".  Told her before that it was bedtime and I would stay with her until she slept but I would not talk or play with her.  Turned on the twilight turtle and her humidifier (white noise) and waited.  Slowly we moved out of the room -- first to a stool beside her bed and we would sit there and wait for her to fall asleep.  Then we moved the stool a bit further away towards the door, then the next night a bit further until eventually we were outside the door but still in eyesight, then gradually out of sight but within hearing.  I'd often make phone calls then so she could hear I was out there.  That whole transition took about 2-3 wks but eventually she got comfortable sleeping in there by herself.  We also had a baby gate on the door so that helped keep her in there too.

    ETA:  DD transitioned to her bed around 22 mos and DS was about the same age, maybe a couple weeks older.  Totally fine.


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    DD -- 5YO
    DS -- 3YO

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  • SFAug07SFAug07 member
    Sarah started climbing out of her crib about a month ago. She is really tall so it was actually very easy for her to just step out. Her pedi said she was ready to try the bed.
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