How do you keep your toddler in their room?

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Dd (2 next week) has just learnt how to climb out of her travel cot, so our days with her sleeping in her regular cot are numbered. I’m looking at getting her a toddler bed sooner rather than later.

My worry is keeping her in her room once she has the freedom to get out of bed. At the moment we leave our bedroom doors ajar so we can hear her if she stirs, but that’s obviously a no no with an adventurous toddler.

How do people manage this?

Stair gate across the door frame?

Excellent user name OP!

We put a stair gate at dd's door.
Didn't stop her getting out the bed and playing with toys at 3am, but it did keep her in the room.

Unusual I guess but I don’t stop her. I have a stair gate at the top of the stairs and she walks in to get me if she wakes up.

Stargate. Although if she can climb out of the travel cot, she can probably scale it!!

Baby gate across the door. Kept them in and the dog out.

Baby gate

I thought about the stair gate at the door, but will it not stop the door closing enough to block out light/noise?

Thank you Bellsofatclements fans self

You can usually place them so it's still possible to close the door. That's how our livingroom one is now and when DS1 was little I definitely was able to shut his door and use the babygate on it

We were lucky - ds stayed in bed but we did switch him when he was one before he started climbing.

Dd was the escape artist - we didn’t use a gate and it was fine. We just had a gate on the stairs but not to her room. She rarely roamed about once asleep and only then she’d come to our room

I don't stop mine. I have a fitted (no trip hazard!) stair gate at the top of the stairs, and a nightlight on the landing and if eldest wakes (she's 3 now) she comes into our room to get me. It's not often though. The novelty of being able to get out of bed soon wears off.

DS door ajar anyway as otherwise the latch would disturb him when he needs me. It so far, in him being in a bed rather than a cot for almost a year, hasn't really occurred to him to get up at night rather than just yell 'i cuddle mummy' when he needs me. The nightlight in the hall doesn't bother him and given there is constant traffic noise outside the house, we aren't that much different.

He has only twice got up out of bed in the morning rather than yelling too. He's 2.3....

We have a stair gate fitted on toddler DC3’s room.

It’s fitted so that we can still close his door if we want to.