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Going into a bed form a cot.

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mum2oliver · 22/10/2005 20:33

Whats the best age to go from cot into a bed?
What should I expect?
Please anyone tell me their experiences and how to try and prevent situations if I can.

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startingtobehalloweenylover · 22/10/2005 20:34

when they start climbing out the cot! lol

Nastylocketstheevil · 22/10/2005 20:36

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gigglinggoblin · 22/10/2005 20:38

dont think there is a best age. just depends on your child. ime kids get very attached to their own beds, so if you think your ds/dd is old enough i would recommend getting them involved in choosing the new bed. keep the same bedding until they are used to the new one.

mine have all been fine changing beds cos they thought it was exciting. my mum tells me i spent the entire first night in a bed shreiking 'noooooooooooo mummy, please nooooooooooo'. she says she has no idea how social services werent involved! lol i was moved to a bed cos litle bro needed cot however, and i didnt like him anyway. so maybe dont do it like that?

bobbybob · 22/10/2005 20:38

Leave it as long as you can. There isn't a best age.

hermykne · 22/10/2005 20:38

left my dd til she was 2yrs 10mths. she loved it initialy and then loved the novelty of getting out for about 2 wks, then she settled again.

goes to bed and reads her stories in it now, 3 now.

Frizbe · 22/10/2005 20:42

dd moved into her bed at about 22mths, she chose her bed and bedding, and went to bed great for the 1st two weeks, until she realised she could get out! then she tried it on for a week, then was great for a few weeks, and then was ill one night and spent another two weeks being a pain, we have now come to an agreement that that night light in the plug, is not enough for someone who is recently scared of the dark! and thus so long as she stays in bed, the door stays open, she drops off we shut it! currently problem solved!! I say just do it when your ready to deal with any issues it throws up (as another note one of dd's friends who was a mare to get to sleep in his cot, is happy as larry in his bed!)

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mum2oliver · 22/10/2005 20:45

Why do I feel the need to do it now!?
Ds is 20 months.Iv got him a toddler bed all ready to be built(waiting for delivery of mattress).He isnt trying to climb out of cot.He is in a great routine.Im just SO excited.It such a sweet little bed.I cant wait!
Mmm maybe I should wait.

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mum2oliver · 22/10/2005 20:47

What do I do if he constantly gets out of bed and is playing about in his room?

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gigglinggoblin · 22/10/2005 20:47

if you have room you could put it up and tell him its a big boys bed and make a big deal of how fab it is. he might want to use it and that would be problem solved! if not, it might help him to become used to it if it is around already

gigglinggoblin · 22/10/2005 20:48

What do I do if he constantly gets out of bed and is playing about in his room?

you have a lie in!

Frizbe · 22/10/2005 20:48

mum2oliver, I threaten to shut the door, that does the trick!

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mum2oliver · 22/10/2005 20:50

I meant when I put him down at night.

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mum2oliver · 22/10/2005 20:51

He always has the door shut anyway?????

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expatinscotland · 22/10/2005 20:53

Our daughter is 2.4 and still in her cot. BUT, the rails are coming off tomorrow - it's a cot bed. She is increasingly jumping into our bed when it's bedtime and curling up on our pillows, pulling up the duvet and saying 'I go bed!' So we think she's trying to tell us something. Worth a try, at any rate.

gigglinggoblin · 22/10/2005 21:06

oh, sorry! mine were always pretty good at going to sleep. i think you have to put up with a bit of getting up messing around cos its fairly inevitable. what do you do when they are in the cot? mine always played for a bit and then went off ok. if they are tired cos they stayed up, put them to bed a bit earlier

Frizbe · 22/10/2005 21:06

ah so did my dd until she realised she could get out of bed and suddenly became scared of the dark....

Kittypickle · 22/10/2005 21:16

DS went into a bed when he was 22 months as he was really unwell in the heat, we put the cot downstairs but he wouldn't sleep there as it was too light, so the only option was to try his new bed as we couldn't face trying to put the cot up again. He is still in a grobag and has a very long bed rail on a bed that's fairly high up, so he hasn't worked out he can get out yet. I attempted a duvet recently, but he tried to climb out immediatley - seems to associate grobags with not climbing out so he's in one till he's 18

There was a bad moment one night though when he must have slipped out of the slight gap at the bottom of the rail, onto the duvet we'd left onto the floor for a soft landing, then rolled right under the bed, still sound asleep. DH went in to check on him and couldn't find him anywhere, was on his hands and knees in the dark trying to find our lost DS when to his great relief he finally found him.

bobbybob · 23/10/2005 01:26

If you have room for both, then put up your cute little bed, if you don't then WAIT.

Honestly the older the better.

jabberwitchy · 23/10/2005 01:36

We took a little grief about this from some friends, but here's what we did.

When ds was big enough to climb out, a friend loaned us this little tent-like thing that goes over the top of the cot/baby bed and zips. Ds and I made stars and a moon out of poster board and covered them with glitter. Then I sewed them to the "tent". The first night or two he wasn't very keen on it, but now he loves it and will say "zip me up!" I plan to keep him in it as long as possible because he has just now (at 2!) started sleeping through the night consistently.

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