Switching to toddler bed

LovesMommyhood · May 2014

Hello.

Lurker with a question here.

We just switched DS2 to a toddler bed and he absolutely refuses to sleep in it. Even if he falls asleep in the bed he wakes up during the night and comes into our room or sits crying in his bed until we come to get him.

How did your transition to toddler bed go?

LovesMommyhood · May 2014

I guess I need to fix my signature tickers.

LovesMommyhood · May 2014

He is 2.5 years old @uconnhuskie007.

I cant my signature tickers to work for some reason. Yes the bed does have bed side rails but he still gets out.

H suggested that we get a mattress so one of us sleeps in his bedroom until he gets used to it.

ETA: Spelling

EVA116 · May 2014

It took a little while for DD. I remember nights where I had to keep going in there and telling her to get back in bed.

Does he take naps in it?

Helenahhandbasket · May 2014

Is sounds like he's not ready.

Was there a reason you swiched him? Can you put him back in his crib and try again in another month or two?

FTR-- my DD is a bit younger than your DS and we are keeping her in her crib for at least the next 6 months.

Xtine22 · May 2014

Inkogneetoh said:

Is it an actual toddler bed or a transitional crib? We turned DD's crib into a daybed around 2 because we found out the baby was coming and wanted to start the transition early so it wasn't an all at once adjustment with a new baby in the house. She actually handled it fine, we didn't even use a rail and she fell out once. Then when we bought our new house we just didn't put her crib back up and put a mattress and box spring on the floor and she did fine.

I think using the crib to transition is what made it so easy. Good luck! And if you were just doing it cause you thought you should and you don't need the crib for a new baby, I'd just give it back for a couple months and try again.

This is what we are doing. Mainly because we haven't gotten her twin bed yet. We took the front off her crib and she has been fine.

LovesMommyhood · May 2014

Stuck in the quote box.

We switched him because he started climbing out of his bed few months ago. He would wake up in the middle of the night and climb out and even fell few times.
We went with him and he was really excited to be in a big boy bed like his brother but he's hated it ever since.

LovesMommyhood · May 2014

CTGirl30 said:

OK, I see you have switched out of necessity then.

Our sleep consultant basically had us write up a chart of Sleep Rules and it's a short list containing items like, "I close my eyes." "I stay in my bed." "I sleep by myself." "I stay in my bed until the light comes on." We read them every. single. night before bedtime.

We had to do a gradual extraction out of the room with DH sitting by her bed. Then a few feet away. Then by the door. Then just outside the door. If she got out, she was escorted back to bed with a simple, "It's time to sleep now." We moved to a new stage every few days once she mastered whatever we were on. But there was NO going back once we moved ahead.

Maybe you can try a visual reward chart for his staying in his bed? Stickers? A week of stickers = big treat of his choosing?

We've done the escorting him back to his room when he'd wake up. He would go back to sleep but he would wake up again in 2 or 3 hours.

Last night he went to bed at 9pm and was up at 12;00, 3:00 and 6;00am. This is usually when we start the day.It is so frustrating and he usually wakes up DS1 with his crying and whining. Not to mention neither H nor I get any sleep.

Its like we're going through the newborn stage again with wake ups throughout the night. We haven't tried the stickers or the treats yet. I hope it helps..

Thanks.

allrightmeow · May 2014

You just have to stick with it. We'd take DD back to her room. We never ever slept in the room with her. We sat in a chair and moved it further and further back until we were out of the room. She had nights where she would cry, wake us up and come in our room but, we'd just keep taking her back to her bed. She'd take off her diaper and strip butt naked and we'd take her back to bed. Once she didn't make not one single noise and just decided to go to sleep right outside our bedroom door. It broke my heart but I took her back to bed.

You have to be consistent NO MATTER WHAT.

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