To ask when your child outgrew their cot?

[rogertherabbit]

Our daughter is 13 months, average size I would say. She wriggles a lot whilst asleep, and seems to be outgrowing her cot already. She wakes herself up because she rolls into the side and bashes herself. It's a standard 140cm by 70cm and I don't know how long it'll be before we need to move her into something bigger

I know we can take the front off this cot and attach a little wooden bed guard, but the bed frame will remain the same size and I don't actually think it'll help much

When did you move yours into a bigger bed?

Dd1 22m

Dd2 19m after her leg got stuck in the bars...

Mine had continental size cot (so smaller than a cot bed) they were in them until 3/4 just took the drop side off and had the mattress at the lowest position.

I moved my first around 15months. Never used a cot with second or third (co-sleeping then proper bed).

Ds was just over 2, if I had it my way he would still be in there but turns out he is a climber so for safety he was moved! He actually sleeps well in his bed but I miss him not being able to get out so much

My 3.4 year old is still in his cot. It's a cot bed though so bigger than a regular cot.

My friends little boy was in his cot bed (converted to a bed) until he was about 6.

Dd went into single bed a month after she turned two. She started climbing out and was always banging her poor head off the bars

My almost five yr old twins are still in their cot bed (converted to bed) but think the end is near and bunk beds are on the horizon...

Between 2 and 3 I think. Dd had a cot bed but we took the side off it somehow seemed less sturdy. Dd loved her 'big girl' bed. The side frame you can get ensures they won't fall out.

When we could afford to buy a proper bed which was when he was 3.5. He sleeps on his front so with his toes pointed downwards he had about 3 inches of room left .

Oh, and I credit her memory foam mattress as the reason she sleeps in until 9am most weekends!

140×70 is cotbed size?

We have put cotbed pushed up against our bed with one side removed as our 2.4yo still cosleeps.... so she has the option of her bed or ours. Of course she prefers ours.

DS2 is 22m and huge and he still fits comfortably in his 120x60 cot. DS1 was in it until 2.6 with no issues.

Don't know if you'd call it 'outgrowing' but DS hasn't slept in his (lovely, expensive!) cot since he was about 9 months. He was always bashing into the sides and started to hate it. He now sleeps on the double mattress I originally took in to lie on myself next to the cot, and still rolls off the bloody thing on a pretty regular basis!

My 14 month old does this too and he is really hard to resettled. We put him in the travel cot this week and he started sleeping through with no waking himself up. I don't think he is ready for a bed so am looking into a good mattress to fit the travel cot.

ds1's cot bed is 140x70cm and he is still in it at 3! We took one side off shortly before he tuned 2. He is 1m tall. I'm wondering if we should be moving him into a single now .

ds2 is 14 months and still looks very comfortable in his smaller cot (I think 120cm long). I was hoping to keep him in it until he's 2. He's about 86cm now.

DD was 14 months she announced one morning she wanted to sleep in the single bed that was in her room and that was that.
My three boys were all around 2 -2.5 when they moved to a toddler bed.

It seems there is quite a range of ages! Thanks all. I don't want to move her yet, I love her cot and I envisaged her being in it until she was 2-3. I hope she becomes less of a wriggler as she gets older. It's definitely the rolling and bashing that wakes her up, she never woke up when she was younger - only really since we weaned her which I suppose coincides near enough with rolling around

My DD is 25 months and still in her cot. She's on the 96th centile for height and off the charts for weight 🙈She's never tried to climb out and she's in a sleeping bag so would be hard anyway. My DS never tried to get out either, even when we moved him into a bed he never ever got out, just shouted for us when he woke. They've both always wanted their own space and don't like sleeping with us...

Meant to add, DD used to roll around everywhere. At about 20 months she started staying in one position with head on pillow.

My lo was in a crib until 4.5 months. He was in his cot (standard cot, not cot bed) until 17 months, when we chose to put him into a toddler bed. Though he would still fit in his cot now, he's nearly 21 months. I'd say he would have fitted in his cot until he was well over 2 and a half.

My 4.5 year old is still in her cot bed (with the sides off obviously!)

Dd1 2.5yo when the bottom fell out of her 30yo cot and we found her asleep on the floor.
Dd2 about 2yo, I think that was when dd1 moved into a midsleeper so the toddler bed was available.
Ds we gave up on the cot at 7 months as he just climbed straight out (wearing a sleeping bag). It felt safer for him to be on a mattress on the floor in our room than climbing out of the cot and over the stair gate looking fir me.

Moved both of mine to single beds (from cot beds) when they turned 2. Both of them move around a lot in their sleep and they kept banging into the cot bed sides and waking themselves up. My eldest is 5 and she still moves around a lot in her sleep, but rarely wakes herself up now. Both of them have a safetots extra wide bed rail on their beds, as they move so much it was the only rail I could find that was long enough to stop them falling out!

Eldest in proper cot until 3.5.
Youngest just after 3rd birthday.
We still used travel cot for eldest until 5 years and plan to do similar for youngest (ie when camping).
We let them decide when they wanted to try a bed - went straight into big bed.
They were/are both quite small for age though.

DS at 18months kept trying to climb out. Swapped to a toddler bed no problems at all.