Has anyone moved their DC back into a cot after trying a bed? DS2 is 23 months. We moved him into a bed about 3 weeks ago, because he'd started climbing out of his cotbed. He has never been a great sleeper, and is still up at least once a night, however was fairly good at bedtime and very good at naptime (usually self settled with minimal fuss). Since moving him into a bed, he has been a bit of a nightmare to get to sleep - he gets out of bed constantly and comes to the door (we have a stairgate across the door), it's a combination of crying / being upset, and just finding the whole thing hilarious, laughing and slamming the door in my face; I now usually resort to sitting in his room and shushing him, which I didn't have to do before. Bedtime is bad, but naptime is even worse - he can literally take an hour to get to sleep, with me constantly returning him to bed. He is definitely tired; on the odd occasion that I've just given up and popped him in the car / buggy, he is asleep within a couple of minutes.
I'm thinking of putting him back in his cot. I think I'd rather put some pillows round it on the floor and risk the odd daredevil dive out than deal with sleeptimes. Poor DS1 is ignored for a huge amount of time at lunchtime and bedtime while I deal with DS2. DS2 is still very young so could reasonably be in his cot for a while yet - I'm sure that DS1 was over 2.6 when he went into a bed.
Any thoughts or advice? Or anything else I can try to get him to stay in bed? I am sure that DS1 took ages to work out that he could even get out of bed. DS2 took 1 night.
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Moving back into a cot after time in a bed?
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thewarmestowl · 08/04/2013 14:51
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