20m DS seems petrified of cot!!

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rydercup · 19/12/2006 18:23

my 20 month old has gone from settling himself beautifully at night time to seeming completely and utterly petrified when he is put down to sleep. This has been going on a week and I have taken to lying on our bed with him and then transeferring him to his cot when asleep (he then sleeps right through no problem!). Do you think this is just a phase....any ideas??

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mamama · 20/12/2006 04:00

No help I'm afraid but I'm bumping this in the hope that you get some good advice as I need some too!

Ds (15 months) is doing the same thing. When I put him in his crib he screams as if he's terrified. He's always slept in the crib with no problems. I'm hoping it's just a phase...

Rosydingdongmerrily · 20/12/2006 04:05

put them in a bed? I have done this with ds2. He loves going there at bedtime but the so and so wakes 3 times a night to be tucked in a bit more!

mamama · 20/12/2006 04:09

Awww, rosy, that's sweet. DS is too young to be in a bed, I think. He'd never stay in it. He definitley needs to stay 'behind bars' in his crib for as long as possible!

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rydercup · 20/12/2006 08:11

been thinking about the bed thing.....if things don't settle down after christmas we might go down that route. DS1 was in a bed at 2 so maybe......although I have that sinking feeling that it will not be such a breeze with DS2.....he is such a delightful yet willful child!! Whoever said the second ones are more chilled out?!>

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twickersmum · 20/12/2006 08:23

i moved my dd1 into a toddler bed at 16 months as she seemed to hate her cot (and new baby was coming a few months later anyway)... never looked back. she slept much better after that.

but now dd2 is 14 months and there is NO WAY she would stay in the toddler bed, she would think it was "party time"

hoxohoxohoxo · 20/12/2006 08:31

just a thought - is the cot in a different room from your bed? may be that she is mad at being moved from you rather than the 'cot' issue.

If poss, move the cot to beside your bed. then spend play time in 'her' room, let her put stickers on teh walls etc to personalise it. then, after a little while, suggest she might want her bed in her room. It may be that you decide the time is right for a bed (with those collapasable side bars) rather than cot.

Good luck

mamama · 20/12/2006 14:03

Twickersmum, I read your first sentence and thought it sounded very promising & that maybe we should think about a bed. Then I read your second sentence and that sounds like our house. A bed would definitely mean party time!

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