Putting my 2year old in a new bedroom - good or bad idea?

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Hello i'm a newby!
Decided my 27month old has so many toys and her small box room is now a bit small to contain everything, thinking of putting her in the big girls room now! Wondering how she will adjust, she is already in a bed so just a room change, anyone tried this?? x

As she is going to just get more toys as she grows up and from your OP it sounds like you have a spare room...why not keep her where she is and just move the toys elsewhere and maybe having a toy room??

We did it when DS was 2.6 (to free up the "nursery" in advance for planned DC2 - although as things have worked out he will actually be 3.8 by the time DC2 arrives! ). It was fine, he was really excited by it. We let him "choose" some of the stuff to go in his new room, e.g. new bedcovers and pictures for his walls. He still calls it his "new big boy room" very proudly, although he's now been in it for 8 mths!

We moved DS into bed and new room at same time just before 2nd birthday. We'd moved house and put him in the small room while we did up the new room, so he actually had 3 rooms within 3 months, and he coped just fine with the move in rooms - little bit of bedtime upset for the first week or so but that was definitely cot to bed rather than room. We just made sure all the wall decorations, toys and books moved so he had the same stuff around him, even if the decor was different, and we talked about his old things in the new room more than the new things in the new room, to remind him of what was familiar. For a few weeks when I suggested he go to his room to get something, he'd go to the old room and look puzzled but now he knows that the new room is his.

I do have a fairly easygoing child though -he has never really been too fazed by sleeping in new places on holiday or at grandparents. If your DD is like this then she'll no doubt be fine, but if she's a bit more uncertain about change at bedtimes then you might need to keep her more involved in process of decorating new room and spend more time explaining it to her and get her to help move her books and toys into the room rather than you doing it for her.

We moved DD1 out of her tiny bedroom when she was about 20 months (also due to impending arrival of DD2) She was absolutely fine with it.......gave her much more space to charge around in. We put up some pink teddy bear curtains that we knew she'd love and put all her teddies in a hammock on the wall. No problems at all.

I changed my DS as we moved house when he was 2. He was fine. Up once or twice the first few nights but then slept better than ever.

Thankyou all for your messages. I let her pick her paint yesterday and have been telling her that she is going in the big girl room, if we have another baby she would have to move anyway i suppose, so have painted the wall and going to move her tomoz! I will let her help move her things too thats a brill idea, hopefully she will sleep better in her new room. ) xxx

My DS moved at 2.2 in preparation for DD's arrival four months later... he loved his new bedroom and didn't miss the nursery at all... Good luck. I hope it goes well for you x

good luck!