ds in a bed for the first time tonight.....

[juicychops]

im worried it wont go as well as im expecting it to

What age is he?

Mine was 2 in december & am hoping he goes into a bed soon!

He will be 2 next week. He clmbs out of his cot up to 20 times a night before he eventually goes to sleep so im hoping this will be easier. He now has a gate on his bedroom door so he wont be able to leave his room and will have no choice but to get back into bed

Juicychops, we are in the same boat. we have reluctantly swapped our dts from cotbeds to beds this afternoon. they have been getting out of their cots for a while, but last night was particularly bad with us having to take it in turns to stay in their room to physcically keep them
We are worried that they might fall, but so didn't want to reach this stage yet, as we know it heralds the lovely stage of them popping up in our bedroom at night
Might go for a gate over their door. They are 2.2, and we were hoping to get to at least 2.5.
Let me know how it goes

I will. I was looking at some previous posts and they have all said about when their child gets out of bed they are able to come into our room. I feel bad for having a gate on my ds's door so that he cant leave his room, but my house is too dangerous for him to go roaming and the stairs are right outside his bedroom door. at least i can stand at his door and send him back to his bed without having to go in and keep returning him. Hopefully it will go ok

Do any of you have those side things on incase they fall out? I was thinking of looking for one of those? Maybe will go look ebay Or are they a waste of time? We didn't have one for dd but then she seemed a lot more sensible at 2 than ds does!! DD was in her bed just before her 2nd b'day as we moved house & I thought it was pointless putting her in a cot for a short time.

is 20m too early to move ds into a bed? he now leans so far out of his cot that he balances on the rail and im terrified that he will fall. he's a big lad anyway

I have got a bed guard thing on. I dont think my ds would sleep a whole night without falling out as he moves all over the place. Plus it was my little sisters one so i didn't have to pay for it! Its the blue material one

I am using bed guards as well, ds1 fell out every time we removed the guard until he was about 3.5.
I think a gate is sensible for us to, as would worry that they might get hurt roaming or more likely cause more damage.
The only thing that entices me not to, if the dt who has woken can come to us, it might stop them screaming at the gate and waking other dt.

How is it going juicychops? So far we have one dt asleep after an hour and a bit of trying, and other dt wide awake and threatening to wake the other one up any moment.
I am downstairs having a breather while dh settles him, and will take over soon.......

Hi there

My dd is in a bed for the first time tonight too. She's 3 months off being 3. We haven't got a bed guard, although she does seem quite high up off the floor! Hoping that if she falls she will be ok (ds was - we never had a bed guard for him and he seemed to learn not to fall fairly quickly).

Hi Juicychops, my ds2 went into a bed about 2 months ago (he's 19 months btw), he climbed out of his cot one morning and we thought it would be safer for him if he was in a bed. Anyway, we have hardly had any of the problems that we anticipated with him. I thought he would just get up and play but, touch wood, he hasn't.

Hoping it goes well for you xx

Hi overrun how did it go for you last night?

my ds took about 20 mins to stay in his bed. He got up 3 times. The first 2 times i returned him straight to his bed then the 3rd time i left him to cry for a while at his door gate to see if he went to bed on his own. He didn't so i went in to his room and sat him down on the sofa in his room until he'd calmed down. Tried again and he stayed in his bed and went fast asleep!

Was so releaved!! And bonus, he didn't wake up until 7.30am instead of the normal 6.30-7am

I told him what a big boy he is now etc and hopefully il have no problems tonight

How did it go for you also hewlettsdaughter?

i taken the side off the cotbed last week as my 2.3yrs old was climbing out regularly. The first night she was sobbing and wanted the frame back on (i think that was part of her fun!) but slight problem now that she wont have her afternoon nap in the bed unless i wear her out! but then her nap time is late afternoon so its all over the place atm.. Also i always put her to bed @ 7pm..by 7.30 she be flat out but now its 10pm and she is still lying there wide awake (i think she is still abit excited for being a BIG girl in a BIG bed )

DD had never got out of her bed but she literally begs me to "stroke" her hair. I stay with her for 5 mins and then i whisper to her "ill be back in a minute" which is she is ok with it.. check on her at least 3 times and then leave her

BUT

in the afternoon she does get out of her bed so in the end i just leave her to play in her bedroom

Hi, interesting to hear peoples stories. for us it took about an hour and a half to settle them and then dt12 came through to us twice in the night, so not good, but better than the night before.
Feel really stressed today, as have been putting them in their cots for 2 minute time outs when they are really bad and just realised I have lost that option ARGH!

overrun, i was doing that until ds started climbing out of his cot. I know just put him in his room and shut the door gate now until he's calmed down and is sitting on his sofa quietly

we tried leaving them in their room, drawers emptied, as little furniture as possible. they just strip the beds, dismantle the bed guards etc
dt1 is still awake now, no evening again, hope that this improves soon, going to go mad

oh dear overrun must be so difficult with twins. Im sure things will improve soon once the novelty has worn off

hope things are getting better overrun

my dd doesn't seem too keen on her bed as yet. she spent one night (the second night) repeatedly getting out and coming downstairs. we kept returning her, she kept getting more and more tired. eventually she fell down the bottom part of the stairs . that was the last time she came down mind you...

she fell out of bed last night - got mightily cross and didn't want to be consoled!