When do you move from cot to bed?

[TuTu]

Another question from a clueless first timer. At what age can you put your little one into a bed?
DS is only 13 mths but just wanting to plan ahead for when I need to do up our spare room.
Thanks.

My DD is 2 on Sunday next week. She is still in her cot, but will be mobing to a bed when we move in September.

I know of younger children though that are climbing out of their cots so they are on mattresses on the floor or going into a bed now.

We moved ds at 2 years 2 months when he fell out of the cot.

when they can climb out....

ds1 - 19 mths
ds2 - 21 mths

Didnt realise it could even be as soon as all that! Thanks.

Moved dd a couple of weeks ago, at 2y1mo. But her bed is surrounded on 3 sides by wall (small room!) and has a bed guard rail thingy on the top half of the other side. So she isn't going to fall out! She tends to sleep horizontally across the pillow, face pressed up against the bars of the headboard (its got wooden spindles).

ds who is 2 years old next month is still in his cot. Because we are paranoid we have these gym style crash mats around his cot incase he climbs out! As yet he is happy enough in his cot. I think when he starts to climb out reguarly I will put him in a bed.

I can't remember any dates of when my 2 did things! I really wish I'd written them down in a special book or something!

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DS1 - 2y,6m (and very tall for his age but just not very athletic )still in cot!

We were taken by surprise at 18 months when both my dd (twins) decided they would climb out of their cots. I wasn't happy about it but we didn't have a choice. It gave us a very hard few months as they were too yound to reason with re staying in bed and not running wildly round the house.

I'm glad you started this thread TuTu, my dd's 21 months and still in a cot and I keep wondering about when she should have a bed. So far she can't climb out (she's diddy and in a sleeping bag) and seems to really like her cot so I haven't seriously considered doing it.

For those who have done it, how the heck do you do it?! Dd won't let me 'put her to bed' as such. She's very independent and so I stand her up in the cot, give her a cuddle and she lies down on her own. I can't imagine how she'll do that in a bed. I also think she'd be a prime candidate for escaping from a bed. And for falling out of it as she stands up and down in her sleep as she moves around.

I moved DD into a toddler bed at 18 monthhs and have never looked back. She never really got on with a cot at all, but loved her bed from day one

strangerthanfiction - at the very start we had a baby gate on DD's door to prevent her escaping but TBH it wasn't a problem anyway.

DD1 at 2y 3m when she climbed out of her cot for the first and only time and broke her arm

Erm Dd1 was about 18mths and Dd2 was about 2 i think.
Ds is 19mths and still in his cot, and TBH honest he will stay in it for as long as i can keep him in it

We felt that the move should be when the baby can climb out of the cot. In the end, as ds never made any attempt to climb out, we only moved him when he was about 5cm shorter than the cot itself! He was 3.5y.

No rush.

Likewise, Nutcracker. Dd is 19m and will stay in her cot as long as possible...but as she is a little madam she will probably start escaping soon. Most mornings I hear them waking up (they share a room) and I hear ds egging dd on to climb out of her cot!

Hulababy, but how do you also stop them just getting out of bed and playing in their room all night?!

my dd is 21 mths not walking yet but we are moving house in a few weeks and I intend to bring in a low cot bed sort of thing afte that, she is more than ready and is agile getting on and off much larger furniture etc...
Certainly she will be getting out of her cot anytime as she is a monkey...

looking back ds never had cot, he hated it, he co slept and took over my bed from day 1....
Fancy forgetting that.... he is 10 now though mind you... memory fades

STF, this really bothered me and stopped me putting ds in a bed for quite a while (he never climbed out) but neither he nor dd1 have been a problem. There was a bit of "jack-in-the-box-ing" at the beginning but the novelty soon wore off (assume Supernanny type stern face when dealing with this )

I don't know but she just didn't try to play. For the first 2 months everything was great. DD had always hated her cot amd co-slept most of the time before. She loved her bed and took to it well. She would have bedtime stories, a cuddle and then sleep. Christmas really knocked her routine at 20 months though and she did have a couple of weeks of going ina nd out of bed, crying and coming in the room. We did a bit of CC - took 2 days and she was back to sleeping through.

She didn't try and play at all TBH.

She is now 2y3m and if not tired when she goes to bed she will sit up in nbed and 'read; stories to her dolls/teddies, but even now she doesn't get up to play with her toys.

I put my 2 in separate rooms and for a few months we had to have stairgates on their bedroom doors. The number of times I got up in the night and fell over those gates is anybodies guess but they worked. I put their old cot mattresses on the floor beside the bed to give them a soft landing if they fell out.

Er ds was 2 1/2 and he started to climb out of it so we had to move him (left as late as possible btw as wanted to keep him in the bed as oppose to getting out at night...which he did as soon as he got his own bed)...think that they get heavy too after a while!