When did you put your LO into a 'proper' bed?

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We are moving house on Friday and I am considering moving my little boy (2 at end of July) to a cot bed when we get into the new house. he is a relatively good sleeper....altough an early riser.....and has his moments like most!!??
I am getting conflicting advice from mum friends of mine and wondered if anyone could give me any advice? I'm not sure and my dh is thoroughly unconvinced?
TIA for your responses.

Dd was 2.6 ds1 was 12 months and ds3 was 15 months.

DD was 2 but was an excellent sleeper.

DS moved at 20mo after I found him astride the cot rail one night... He's been in a bed one night so far. Took an hour and a half to go to sleep last night, woke at midnight and 3.
We have a stair gate on his room so he can get up but his room is safe and he's contained - except that he opens the door and shouts "mummy! hiya!" until somebody pays him some attention!

He is not a good sleeper and I would have preferred to have kept him in a cot for longer - at least until we'd sorted out the sleep thing.

From cot to full sized single bed with a cot side on the day DS turned 18 months. He loves his bed.

Thank you....one of my friends said leave it as long as possible....or wait until he starts trying to climb out (he hasn't yet!!) and another friend said he should be in a bed by the time he is 2?? Not really sure either of these are particularly right for me tbh? Not sure whether to do it at the same time as the move or whether this might spook him out a bit?? Suppose it's pretty hard to guess....might just have to try and if it all goes horribly wrong put the sides back on the cot bed??

When he was about 16 months he got his own double futon, so that DH or I could sleep in with him if he wanted us to. But he co slept before that. The room was very, very child-proofed with a baby gate. Now age 2 1/2 he is in a full size single with a little rail to stop him falling out but it's just a precaution - he has never fallen out of bed. He sleeps through the night alone now and the babygate is left so that he can open it to get to me if he wants to (he never has, just shouts if he wants my attention).

I think different things work for different families when it comes to sleeping arrangements. DS's friend who is 2.3 is still in a cot wearing a sleeping bag. She is happy like that and so the parents are in no rush to move her. Has DS made any suggestion that he should be moved to a big bed (either by his own inclination or trying to escape from the cot!)?

Sorry x-posted!

DD was 14 months, DS1 was 2.1 and we are waiting for a junior bed for DS2 2.6 so he can free up the cot for DS3 14 months who is currently sleeping in a travel cot.

Moving house at 2.3 was really traumatic for DS1, much more than I thought it would be. His sleeping was disrupted for months and he wouldn't stay in a room on his own for weeks. He was very clingy and kept asking to go home.
Hopefully it won't be the same for your DS but it might be a good idea not to move house and bed all at once just in case.

I have a friend who moves her DC straight from moses basket to single bed as she thinks it is less disruptive.

I think he was 23m. We needed cot for his sister. We had to sit with him while he went to sleep for ages; until he was 3 really! But that may have also been because we'd just moved house and had a baby. So he was a bit messed up & then slipped into habit.

We've just taken the sides off our cotbed, and it's now a toddler bed. Dd2 was able to climb out. We've used a bed guard to pen her in a bit from falling out. It's been 5 days, and she's getting used to it now.

So far so good. We did it a few months earlier, and she just escaped and was up and down out of bed. This time she goes off to bed by herself, and loves it.

You can always trial it, and put the sides back up, but do remember you're moving o somewhere new, so he may be unsettled at first anyway.

DS is 22 months now, and DH & I are looking into getting a 'proper' bed now and moving him into it within the next few weeks.

This is mainly because he's getting to the point where it looks like he can almost get a leg over the top of the cot, and if he's going to start climbing out of bed, I think he's much safer climbing out of a proper bed than a cot.

Ds is 2.3 and has been in Hus own bed for around 9/10 months now. What I found a great transition was putting a bed guard on the side of the cot bed, then when he's ready I.e not rolling out of bed, take it off. He's been sleeping ng without the bed guard for about 2 months now and not fallen out :-D