To have my son in a cot still?

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What age did you take the sides off the cotbed to turn it into a toddler bed?

DS is a climber, but luckily grobags stop him climbing out of the cot, I'm dreading when he goes into a bed as I think I'm going to have to empty his room of all other furniture. This morning alone he's climbed onto the dining table and up the six foot cat tower. He's 2 in December

My son was 2

Just before he turned 2 as he could lean right over the side. He's in a proper single bed now at 2.5 as we've moved him to a new room as we need the cot for his sister's arrival.

Our son was 3, he never tried to climb over and ours was big enough for him to comfortably be in there. He was in the toddler bed version fir a few months and we have just moved him into a single bed.

Very easy transition for us. We have had one short period of him getting out of bed but that only lasted a week and has now stopped.

@KarlKennedysDurianFruit similar here with our daughter. We even had to put her drawers in to the cupboard with a baby lock on it after she pulled the drawers out and tried to climb up to her top shelf (it was already in the cupboard but not locked at that stage) and pulled the whole drawer set down. Luckily the bottom draw jammed in to the floor and caught the weight of it as otherwise she would have at the very least broken her leg.

We never put any other furniture in their at all until she was much older.

DS1 was 3 when we moved him
DS2 is three but his new bed isn’t getting delivered until November so he will be 3.5

DS was 3 (not long after his birthday). He never tried to climb out which is why we didn't remove the cot bars sooner. We took them off because he was potty trained and would wake up in the morning needing a wee, so he needed to be able to get out of bed and do a wee by himself.

Our dd was 3 when we moved her from cot to bed. She could safely climb out of cot by that point.

DS has just turned 2 and is still on a cot. He’s not a climber and can be a bit of a pickle at bedtime so
I’m in no hurry to change him to a bed.

DD is 20months and we’ve just had to convert to Toddler bed because she figured out how to climb out and face planted the floor.

If anyone has any tips on how to now keep her there for Naps and Bedtimes it would be really appreciated 😴

DS was just over 4 - he couldn’t have cared less and was in a cot bed so loads of space. We took the sides off for no particular reason as he was quite happy, and he stayed in it as a toddler bed for less than a year, and then we moved house and he got a double bed. Hopefully that’ll be the last bed he needs!

DD is almost 3 and is still in a side car against our bed. I’m guessing she’ll go straight into the toddler bed set up rather then the cot, but who knows when that’ll be!

Ds1 was 3.5 when he vacated the cot, ds2 was 2.1, Ds3 hated it from the moment he was born, and refused to sleep in it so moved into a double bed with bed guards (and me most of the time) at 6 months. They're all different. Some potty train earlier and need to be able to get out for a wee in the night, others are happy in a cot until they're physically too big for it.

When we heard a thump went up to see and found ds stood at the top of the stairs, 18months possibly? Can't remember exactly

He went into a single bed that night

put DS in a toddler bed at 18 months. he used a bed rail too so he didn't fall out. we got him a single bed a year ago and he's in that now with his bed rail. he's 4

I think with DD we went to toddler bed aged about 2, mainly as my brother offered us one. Weirdly it never seemed to occur to either of mine to climb out of it before the morning - I think they both just liked their sleep!

If they're not trying to climb then leave them. We moved our daughter at around 2.5 just because we wanted the cot for the new baby (not that he's ever slept in it...) but if it hadn't been for that we'd have left her in there longer.

Well over 18 months and straight into single beds. Never saw a point to a toddler bed that would just need replacing later.

We bowed to pressure from NCT friends and took the cot sides off way too early for my daughter. After a few weeks if sheer and utter hell, we put them back on again and she stayed perfectly happily in it until she was 3. Similar age with my son too.

Either when they climbed out or when I needed the cot for the next baby. Usually around 2.

Age 2 in to a toddler bed. Needed cot for baby who had outgrown Moses basket

I've been looking through the thread and very interested by the range of replies! Our 9 month old hates his cot; won't settle in it like he did in his snuzpod and it's almost impossible to lower him down without waking him, it's exhausting 🙁

My dc are short and not particularly athletic so DC1 didn't move until 3 (as we needed the cot for DC2). DC2 is now 2 and a bit but doesn't have a prayer of climbing out so will probably stay in until 3.

I put mine in a toddler bed at 17 months. Had no problems at all

Around their first birthday I think. Scaled the bars so we put her straight into a full size single then. No issues :) she has had a mid sleeper - about boob height on me, so 4”6 ish, since she turned 3.

My older son lived his cot bed and didn't want me to take the sides off. We did it when he was about 3 and a bit, but only really because I had to do his little brothers (who's been climbing out)

He's still be in it now at 5 if he has his way.