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What is the earliest age you moved a child from cot to bed?

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MesaLoca · 13/02/2008 20:38

And did it work out or not?

DD (16 months) naps in her bed but goes in her cot at night. She asks for her bed though and I have to say no because I am scared she will just get up in the night and wander round the house.

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TrinityRhino · 13/02/2008 22:31

dd1 loved her cot and we didn't have dd2 till she was 5 so dd1 stayed in her cot till we moved when she was 2 and a half and only then because in the move we llost the cot bolts

dd2 hated her cot with a vengeance and we moved her to a bed at 29 months which I thought would cause all sorts of problems but with a starigate on her door she was fine and once asleep didn't get out of bed at all
gecko is 12 months and cosleeps so no idea what going to happen with her
she doesn't appear to hate her cot which she does begin the night in

TrinityRhino · 13/02/2008 22:33

that would be we moved dd2 into a bed at 19 motnhs.....

TrinityRhino · 13/02/2008 22:33

oh fgs
dd2 was 19 months and fine

PotPourri · 13/02/2008 22:39

DD1 17 months. It took her til she was 2 and a half to realise she could get out the bed! She doesn't really get out of bed much now and she is 3

DD2 14 months, worked out instantly that she could get out so it took a week or so of constantly putting her back in bed. It's well cute in the morning though when she toddles into our room!

ArmadilloDaMan · 16/02/2008 18:35

Seeker that sounds fab. Will def bear in mind if I have another.

Though I bet I end up with one tha twill adore a cot sod's law, innit

sarahpea · 17/02/2008 19:03

when in a bed do they have duvets and pillow? my daughter is 18 months and goes in a grobag in her cot but after reading these posts am thinking of getting her a bed

ArmadilloDaMan · 17/02/2008 19:05

they can when they are over a year I think.

workstostaysane · 17/02/2008 19:13

dd has slept in a single bed since she was 8 mo. she seems ok

Phoenix · 17/02/2008 19:38

My ds is 2yo (and 1 week ) and still in his cot. He's never attempted to climb out or anything so we may as well leave him in it. He's gone to bed for the first time tonight with a duvet and pillow (normally grobag) that i got from Ikea today. He's been up 5 mins and is fast asleep already

hairtwiddler · 17/02/2008 19:49

DD is 2.2yrs and still in her cot. She has never tried to climb out and loves it in there. She now goes in there at nap time but doesn't nap, instead is quite happy to sit with books and listen to story cds. I am in no rush to put her in a bed!
She just started going under a quilt, which has been fine. Tuck it under the mattress sideways on so she can't move it round.

yama · 17/02/2008 19:59

Dd was 13 or 14 months old. I have a spinal condition so it was for my benefit.

If she wakes in the night, she will come through to our bed. She doesn't seem to be afraid of the dark. I've often wondered if this is because she has never been trapped in a cot.

unknownrebelbang · 17/02/2008 20:02

Can't remember specifically, but DS2 went early because he climbed out of the cot, and we decided less bother for him to fall out of a bed (with pillows etc on the floor).

I don't think we put DS3 in the cot at all after that. We certainly didn't bring the cot with us when we moved and he was just one.

We had a stairgate at the top of the stairs in the old house, but not in this one.

colacubes · 17/02/2008 21:47

Well, cant believe some babies going in beds so young, I was only thinking about this today, my dd just started climbing out of her cot at 23mnths. Will have to get her into her cotbed asap, glad I had a quick read through.

coastalmum · 17/02/2008 21:51

I moved all mine from cot to cot mattress on floor first time they attempted to climb out. Moved them into a bed once they stopped rolling off mattress.

Lulah · 17/02/2008 22:23

My mothers help broke my ds cot when she fell through the bottom of it reaching shelfs he was just 12 months! my cot had already beenused by my two other dc so i did not want to buy a new one. Luckily my 5 yeaar old slept on the bottom bed of bunks so iput him in top bunk and my one year old in the bottom.
It was a bit of a game at first but he soon stayed in bed and i had a stair gate at top of stairs in case he wandered at night but if he did ever get out he just came to us or sometimes he woke his brother if he needed something. He was really good. lucky us.

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MesaLoca · 19/02/2008 13:28

Well, I haven't yet got round to getting rid of the cot because it has been so cold at night here the last week and I have no idea what to put DD in to go into her bed.

At the mo she has a vest and pyjamas and a 2.5 tog sleeping bag. Her duvet on the bed is 4.5 tog but she throws it off herself during her daytime naps and I'm worried that if she does the same at night she will be too cold. To be honest, I just don't want to have to keep getting up in the night to sort things out!

What does everyone else do? Thicker duvet or more clothes?

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BumperliciousNeedsaGlassofWine · 03/03/2008 22:03

Just bumping this again as I am wondering the same thing.

DD is 8.5 months and went from a moses basket to a crib. We don't actually have a cot as we were going to borrow one but would still have to buy a new mattress. She is only just getting to big for the crib and I am wondering if it is worth even getting a cot or just getting her straight into a bed. She isn't crawling yet so it is hard to say what she would be like.

Is 9 months too young?

tori32 · 03/03/2008 22:10

More of a problem once they become very mobile IME. DD went into a double bed at 20mths and even with extra pillows down the side, travel cot at foot end and 2 walls bordering it, still managed to roll out! Luckily she was bigger and could shout for help and crawl out/into bed so no damage. Quite a long way for an 8.5mth old to fall though.

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