Two year old sleeping arrangements holiday

[Worried23]

Hi all just after some advice.

My child is 2 years 4 months old and we’re going on a UK break shortly. This is rearranged from last year so obviously he’s much older now. I’m getting my knickers in a knot about what sleeping arrangements would be best for his stage.

At home he’s still in a cot with the side up but we’re planning to move him to a bed shortly. I’m concerned a travel cot is just too small for a toddler of this age and also that he will have the ability to climb out and could tip it over so I’m not sure if that’s still safe?

Alternatively I’m concerned about his first time in his own bed being on holiday and wondering if a bed guard would suffice as I imagine he could still just fall straight out of the bottom ( he moves a lot).

I don’t know anyone with kids the same age so I just wondered if people would tell me what they’d probably do in this situation, or what they’ve done in the past?

Thank you!

When my son was two we went to Minorca and the cot hadn’t been left at the apartment. I put him in a single bed ,wedged mattress with pillows and he was fine !

I absolutely would not put them in any sort of bed unless they are already in a bed at home and used to it. Otherwise you risk having a battle on your hands when they get up umpteen times and refuse to settle which is the last thing you want on holiday. Friends of our tried this whilst we were sharing an Air BnB and it came close to wrecking their holiday. At 2.5 your child is more than capable of climbing out of the cot but they haven’t yet, you’d have to be quite unlucky if the first time they go for it on holiday so I’d use the travel cot. We used it until DD was nearly 3 as that was when she moved to a single bed at home. We just went away and she had the sofa bed in the living room of our suite and no issues as she’s used to a bed.

@MyDcAreMarvel

Unless you child is really big for their age a travel cot will be fine. If you use a bed just put a poop noodle under the sheet.

Pah 🤣🤣🤣 ifs been getting my child to sleep for the last 2 hours. This has broken me. Poop noodle.

We had this with DS and I made the decision to take the side off the cot a few weeks beforehand so that he was used to sleeping in a “bed” for holiday. I didn’t think a travel cot would contain him and it was the right time for us to move him to a bed anyway.

He did totally fine and has never fallen out at home. On the holiday he slept on a sofa bed and I just put pillows down the sides so he didn’t fall out

We went got moving mattress on to the floor so not far to fall. Used a rolled up towel under the flat sheet too. Made sure there was a baby gate on the stairs if not their room. I seem to remember holiday homes used to be a huge exercise in child proofing. Move all the breakable into cupboards, stair gate their door if possible.

DS is a tall 2.5yo and slept in a travel cot quite happily when we were at PIL's two weeks ago.

Weve never co slept and wouldnt start on holiday.

We used a little inflatable bed for dc1 - it comes with a duvet that is zipped on so sort of contains them.