Cot to bed transition

[mumandcub]

Hello! I have a 15 month old little boy, he doesn’t really sleep in his cot and mainly sleeps in with me and my husband. Seriously considering doing the cot to bed transition which I know is earlier than the suggested age but room is running out in our bed and the cot just is not working (we have seriously tried). Just wondering if anyone else did the move around this age and how you found it? Thank you ☺️

What advantages do you think the bed would have over the cot? If he won't sleep in a cot, to the point where you are bringing him into your bed every night even though you'd rather not, I would have thought a bed would be worse. He can get himself out of that! I would have thought it better to tackle him sleeping in his own space while you have the control over getting him out. You lose that with a bed.

I might be missing something, but doesn't sound like an obvious solution to the problem.

I know people who went for a double mattress on the floor. Allowed them to lie down with the DC when needed but then leave them to it. You could think about putting a stair gate on the bedroom door.

I've recently moved my 2yo into a bed. It's an ikea kura bed but the mattress is on the floor instead of the slats so it's a bit more enclosed. He was never a bad sleeper but this does mean he can get himself up and play in his room. We put a stair gate on his door so we still choose his wake up time. We also check on him before we go to sleep and make sure he's in bed or move him if he isn't.

@mumandcub I have a 16 month old who sounds the same although he doesn't get into our bed.. I am up and down several times a night getting him back to sleep...the advantage I was thinking was I could lie down beside him to get him to sleep and it would save the rocking / pushing him in pram in bedroom to try and get him to sleep

I have bought a bedguard and I also will put a stair gate up at the bedroom door so he cannot go walking around. I think the pros for doing it is I can lie down next to him and get him off to sleep that way and sneak out rather than getting him to sleep in the arms and then the transfer over the cot always fails but as soon as I put him on a mattress in the bed, he is out for the count, clearly a comfort thing for him and feels safe. I do see the benefit of containing him in a cot but I just don’t see it working much longer plus he has attempted to get out so won’t be long until he achieves that 🙈

It sounds like you are all ready to give it a go! I think the same as you though haven't persuaded my dh as yet but I do think a bed sooner might be the way forward for my ds.. If you give it a go let me know if it works!!

We had a single bed and a cot in DC1's room, she said one night at 14 months "I sleep there" and never went back into the cot!