Transition to bed

Issy wouldnt sleep in the cot without the side on because it was "broken" so she would always end up on the floor or under the cot .. so we got her a toddler bed and she has slept fine in it from day one.

(I suppose that wasnt much help lol).

Although I will say that because she was in a toddler bed, she was on her normal mattress so it may have smelt like her bed?

We have a toddler bed too, I never thought of putting his cot mattress on it - good idea! I like the idea that it will "smell" comforting.

I suspect Oli will think that his cot is "broken" too, maybe I should make the little bed up and put it in his room to show him before we try to make him sleep in it?

 

my girl started climbing out of her cot so we had no choice but to do it when we did ... but I had started talking about being in the big bed a few weeks before and we had her bed up in another room so she could see it... She was quite happy to be in the bed and stays in it or gets back in after mucking around a bit... I have had to stand at the door a few nights telling her to stay in her room over and over but she has learnt now (although I do often wake up wih her next to me in the morning which I don't mind at all)... We put her straight into a full size bed with no probs, she has her ruggy so guess that provides comfort... I did have her cot mattress on the floor for awhile incase she fell out but she hasn't and she was one of those crazy sideways sleepers too

Just go cold turkey - but give him a pillow in the cot for a while if he doesn't have one already as it often helps them stay more still.

Also putting all of their bedding over onto the single bed for a while helps.

We took the side off the cot and that worked really well. After about a month we moved her into a single bed with no problems. To stop her rolling out I rolled up a towel and put it down the side of the mattress under the fitted sheet. I still do that now she's in her big bed.

Good luck, I'm sure he'll be fine!

One day whilst jumping in the cot, the cot went CRACK. Down it came.
Thomas slept on the matress on the floor with the legs taken off the cot so it was like a frame round him for a week, then we got a new big boy bed. We spent a week of him getting up and down etc, he hated it! after that I worked out that it was just too much room for him, so we packed half the bed with toys etc, rolled some towels up at the floor side so he wouldnt roll out and we were away laughing!

Cept now he's on a sleep strike and wont sleep anywhere. Oh except when he sneeks into our room and climbs into the empty bassinet! ARGH.

ElfsMum wrote: i was thinking maybe it didnt work for us as E has never liked blankets..not sure? hope it goes well for you!

I think its like anything with toddlers, if you are going to change something on them that they have always known, just like getting rid of a dummy, or giving up bottles etc then some just simply aren't going to like that you have changed it and it will take time, sometimes they will protest but if you stick with it they eventually get over it. Its a bit like sleep routines, if you try something for a few days and it doesn't quite go according to plan and you go back to the old then it makes the next time you try that much harder more often than not.

No offence or anything intended, I just wanted to say that if it were me and I were wanting him in a big bed I'd bite the bullet, get rid of the cot and ride out the protesting. I say this cause theres a mum at Daniels daycare who was saying how much trouble she had getting her little guy into a big bed and the moral of her story was that she wished that instead of trying for a few days and then giving up that she had just rode it out for a few weeks instead cause thats what they ended up doing after several failed attempts and its worked, hes in a big bed at home and at daycare now and hes a happy lil man in his bed

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