please help. big bed related

[MikeTheShite]

DD aged 20 months and I have moved house recently and I broke her cot.
She was in her travel cot for a week and settled great into the new house.
Today a single bed arrived (friend) and we gave it a go. She's normally asleep by 6-45 and it was so awful about five minutes ago I got the travel cot back out. She went instantly.

Please can someone suggest an optopn or suggestion. I feel very silly now for getting a bed but felt equally silly ordering a cot for a nearly two year old.

TIA

anyone?

Have you got a bed guard up on the bed?

I have yes

can you use the exact same bedding on the bed that is in the travel cot? Even maybe just put to mattress up from the travel cot on top of the bed, same blankets etc?

Yuck, typos!

I was trying to suggest recreating the environment of the travel cot, on top of the bed, to help her get used to it. Obviously you can't put the cot up high (unlike when people put a moses basket inside a cot for a few nights). You, could, however, take the whole mattress, sheets, blankets, pillow if she has one, and make the "same" arrangement on the bed for a little while, to help her get used to it.

Hmm. I'm not sure what to suggest really. I kept both DC in cots until they were a couple of months off 3 then they transitioned to bed really easily.

Could you borrow a cot for her/get one off freecyle for the next six months or so until she's ready?

Was she in a sleeping bag in her cot?

could she not just stay in the travel cot for a while?

My DD1 was in a bed at about the same age because we needed the cot for DD2. The first few nights were hard going as she realised she could get out of it and we had to keep putting her back to bed. In the end we put the stair gate across her bedroom door and hardened our hearts. She fell asleep on the floor 3, maybe 4 nights and after that went to sleep like a dream.

Lots of food for thought

she has a stairgate on her door. so should I leave her too it?

All the bedding is toddler bed sized so I did put it all on there for her

I feel a bit mean keeping her in a travel cot as she is very tall so may have to look into getting another cot.

So this morning I caved in and bought another cot.
Shes just gone for a nap and about five minutes after I put her down she's climbed out over the top.
I am now at a complete loss.

Well, this is completely normal behaviour, so that's good! My DS1 could undo his sleeping bag climb out of his cot from the age of 18 months and would do so, if it suited him. However, we were very firm about bedtimes and nap times and if he climbed out we would calmly put him back in again as many times as it took.

It was unbelievably irritating at the time, but 20 months is a busy age and she may just be one of those DC who is getting ready to give up her nap. DS1 was always a horrible daytime napper and after his second birthday the only way I could get him to sleep was in the car. If you know she's exhausted, just keep putting her back, or stick her in the car and go for a drive - is that an option?

Thank you for the reassurance

ill definitely try it