Cot Bed to Bed and now wont stay in bed

[Joanne69]

Anybody any experience this and any ideas how best to handle it

DD1 used to sleep like a dream in her cot bed whilist it still had the bars. She is 22 months old and we have just removed the bars and turned it into a toddler bed and now we cant keep her in her cot. At the moment we just have to stay in her room with her until she eventually drops off, which is taken about 1 1/2, we just cant carry on like this. I'm tempted to put the cot back together again, but DH wants to carry on like we are until she learns to stay in bed. Any advice please

put the cot back together!!

imo she's quite little to be in a bed. i tried ds in a bed when he was about 26 mnths. he hated it so we took it down and reinstated cot. tried again with bed 2 mnths(?) later and had no problems.

now aged 3 and 7 months he prefers mummys bed!!!

I agree with Maisy. Put her back in the cot!! We tried ds in a bed when he was 2 and he kept climbing out and wouldnt stay put. He was happy back in his cot and sleeps through. Am trying again in Sept when he will be 2yrs 5months as I would like him in a bed when the new baby arrives. She is probably a bit young to understand at the mo but as she gets older you will be able to reason with her!! HTH

My DS did this when he was just 2 ... we would have kept him in the cot only he could climb out ... I found him sitting on top of his changing table three times in one night .
The only thing we could do was shut his bedroom door ... he hates the door being shut ... and told him that if he wanted it open he had to stay in bed ... He got the idea after about 2 nights ... but it was hell ...
Sorry, but that was what worked for us ...

We had to resort to closing the door. It works but can be distressing, would sometimes find him asleep on the floor by the door but I was about to have no.2 and couldn't cope with them both up in the night so perservered and he soon got used to it.

well I'm still in the 'stay in room' bit but always have been so that's no use to you but to make it shorter at least you could try making the rest of the house totally uninteresting - I let ds wander round the house the first night but with no tv no adults to play with etc, now I firmly close the bedroom door and we lie on the bed together and he goes to sleep after a few minutes - if he doesn't I tell him I'm going to go and spend time with daddy soon so he should go to sleep now or go to sleep by himself and he understands and quietens down - he's 20 months so that might work with you guys too?