Regretting big girl bed now!!!

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My 2.5 year old was put into her big girl bed for the first time when we moved house last week. We made her new room really pretty and her bed is cosy and she was excited.... However, I am starting to regret it now as she wakes several times a night, sometimes with her legs hanging out saying she is stuck, sometimes asking for milk, and last night i went in her head was down the other end and she had flung her pillow out of bed. I honestly don't know what she is getting up to in that room at night!
I am exhausted getting up to her when she starts crying out for me!!!!! I have a 7 month old too and am always on edge she will wake him up too..

Any ideas? Is it the new house? Or the new bed? Is it a phase or should we put the cot back up for her? She is a mature and bright little girl so I didn't expect this! Thanks

its only been a week! She might take a bit longer than that to settle in. Moving house is very stressful for all concerned, so its probably that rather than the bed that's upsetting her.

She may seem mature, but she is only 2 and half!! she is still TINY!

sorry, meant to add - I wouldn't put the cot back up.

just give it some time - I am sure she will settle soon

I remember DS2's big bed adventures when he was two.

I also remember, after suffering for 10 days, taking the thing apart at five o'clock in the morning, throwing the main frame into my bedroom, screaming 'Who's fucking idea was this?' at DH and reassembling the cot, hapharzardly.

He snuggled down happily in that and there he slept for another six months or so.

Sorry to have no advice, but I wanted to reassure you that someone else has walked in your shoes.

When I was 6 months old I started sleeping through the night, then we moved house and I didn't sleep through the night (from the very first night) again until I was 18 months old when we moved house again. My mum tells me that as soon as I got into my new room that was it I slept like a log. Apparently at house 1 I slept in a room by a main road, house 2 was in the middle of nowhere and house 3 I had a room right by a main road. Whether it was that I was familiar with the main road or just a big old coincidence I don't know.

Okay so I don't really have much advice apart from that she's little and it'll take some time to adjust.

If it carries on, I would put the cot back up. Sometimes these are signs that they're not ready for the change and the obviously disturbed sleep may be a sign.

As you've also moved house she's had two big changes in one go; perhaps ask her if she'd like her cot back (if she's mature, she may well have a view on that) and if she says yes, go with it for a few months more. My daughter is nearly 2.5 and I don't intend to put her in a bed just yet.

Hi everyone. Thanks for your bits of info. I've asked her this morning after a really really bad night of me getting up four times to put her back in her bed whether daddy should put the bars back on her bed and she has said yes. I can't wait!!!! We will put them on tonight. I'm glad to hear other agreeing that is ok to put the cot back, well, add the sides back. She is absolutely shattered every day as am I. Let's hope she relaxes more and we all get some sleep again. Feel guilty for putting her in it now. Poor sausage doesn't know what's going on!! :-)

We had this for a few weeks, I think it's readjustment to a new environment. Eventually DD settled down and we did not need to put the cot sides back on, though she did ask for her sleeping bags back for a few nights. Once she realised they curtailed her new found freedom they were soon off! Hope your DD settles soon.