Is it terrible to put a chld back into a cot after she's been in a bed

[Wills]

Facts first
We're moving house next Thursday. To simplfy showing the house we've sold and moving house (we're moving to a temporary rental place for 7 months) we decided to move dd2 into her own bed and into her sister's room. But
I'm 5 months pregnant
She's almost 2 and half
We really hadn't sorted out sleeping through the night
She's flexing her toddler muscles and refusing to stay in her bed and go to sleep so we're having hour and half to 2 hour fights with her to go to bed, whereas until now she's was extremely good at going to bed (just not staying asleep all night).
She gets up at 3am most nights and joins us and from that point on none of us gets much sleep.
There is no room in our bed for two adults and pregnancy bump, a long cushion to support me and bump and a 2 year old that insists on lying perpendicular to the rest of us!

Next Wednesday the Removal men will bring the cot down out of the loft. I asked her if she wanted to go back in it and she said yes. But is this wrong?

Why would it be wrong?

If it made you all sleep better, it's got to be better in the long run? There's something comforting and cosseted about being in a cot for some children, with a feeling of security she perhaps misses. I have known people keep their children in cots until 3 without any problems.

However, you could bite the bullet in a house of tiny tearaways style, and train her to sleep in her own bed. No lights, no talking, just keep putting her back in her own bed at bedtime and at 3am. Perhaps sitting in the room for the first couple of nights until she's settled and realises you mean business. It might mean a few worse nights (you and DH could take it in turns, so at least one of you is getting a whole night), but should then mean many, many more good nights (before you have to be getting up again for the baby!!)

I realise it sounds easier said than done.

good Grief no it isn't wrong. I did it. I had ds in a bed at about 22 months old, and he was a little sod about it for 3 nights running, so I put him back in a cot. He is 2.9 and still there now.

Not now this minute, obviously

Oh fab. I was worrying that like putting children back into nappies once they successfully potty train that it was somehow giving her the wrong message.

I do like the tiny tearaway approach thanks for telling me that one but... we're moving house in 5 days time and I'm pregnant and we're desperately house hunting at the same time so I'm sort of already at my wits end. Mind you going forward now would probably save heartache later - gonna chat to dh - thanks

terrible -- nothing like it!! Terrible would be locking her in the cellar to make sure you got some sleep (but understandable..) this is totally fine... my DD is 2.7 and still in her cot and will be until she can give me a written guarantee that she will stay in bed until 9:00am every day....

Like it!

No - DS2 went back in his cot for a while, at his own request, but was quite happy to move to a bed a few months later.