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At what age did you turn their cot into a bed?

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HatonHatoff · 13/02/2008 11:03

My DS is sleeping pretty well and it seems like a good time to take the sides off his cot (he's soon to be 2). Just interested in when other parents decided to take the sides off and give them a big girl/boy bed! He's getting to be one heavy kid now...

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bundle · 13/02/2008 11:04

about 3

Baffy · 13/02/2008 11:06

2.5 for ds.

Seems to be working ok. He's so big now that he'd just get utterly frustrated being stuck in his cot and it made me feel guilty - as it looked like he was in jail or something!
Now he just gets up and comes to me when he wants to.

I do have a stairgate on the top of the stairs though, in case he wanders around in the night and I don't hear straight away.

fym · 13/02/2008 11:11

Just doing his new big boy room now (2y2m). We're moving him to a bed in a different room so am going to let him "choose" when to move in.

Had another friend that put a bed in DS's room then let him choose whether to sleep in the cot or the bed. Worked very well.

Although neither of these would work with a cot bed!

tasjaSAmuminUK · 13/02/2008 11:14

About 17 months. 18 months slept in normal single bed. She is almost 21 months and has been sleeping without a bedguard for last 2 weeks.

Nemoandthefishes · 13/02/2008 11:15

mine were all early. DS was 13mths,dd1 was 12mths and dd2 was 12mths

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HatonHatoff · 13/02/2008 11:28

Aha... so quite different ages really. I've got friends who still have their 3 year olds in sleep bags and cots which of course keeps them tied down to one place longer though I think my little one is ready for a change so good to know. I think a stair gate at the top of the stairs would be pretty vital for us! On that note, [sorry this sounds very dumb] I guess you use proper bedding and not sleeping bags once they are in bed right? Should be interesting... I think we'll wait till he turns two and try it. I'm pregnant and hoisting him in and out of the cot is getting knackering!

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bundle · 13/02/2008 11:33

we used duvet - normal single - on cotbed and turned it round the "wrong" way - so that it could be tucked well under the mattress at both sides and stop any falling out

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HatonHatoff · 13/02/2008 18:59

That's a great idea bundle. Like his mother he moves around a lot in the bed (my poor DH who is over 6 foot says he never would have believed someone smaller than him could take up so much of the bed ) thank you

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muppetgirl · 13/02/2008 19:03

Just under 2 as he climbed out of it after much practising the precious week. We put him in his cot bed with a guard but he still kept falling out as he moves around a lot. We then out him in a single bed around 2 and he's been in it ever since - he's 3.11 now. Are going to use the same cotbed for ds 2 14 weeks when the time comes and are hoping to get a little more value for money from him

It lasts your child up to 5/6 years

Not with my boy!

muppetgirl · 13/02/2008 19:08

Can I also say that be careful once they are out of their cots and into cotbeds as you think a stairgate is fine to keep them in one plce, ideally their bedroom. My ds 1 moved his bedside cabinte to the stairgate to use to climb over it. I took it out but he then worked out how to open it going from underneath and pushing the opening bar up.

Also he dropped his morning and afternoon nap all in one week as he worked out I couldn't keep him in his bed to have sleep. With the cot he couldn't get out so he went to sleep. I put him in his bed - he just got out!

It was a hellish couple of weeks for us!

brimfull · 13/02/2008 19:09

3ish

I wasn't in any hurry to give him freedom and he never tried to climb out.

gingerninja · 14/02/2008 13:05

12 months for me after never really getting her into her cot.

gingerninja · 14/02/2008 13:07

we just use a matress on the floor not a cot though so saves any falling out problems

Hillbilly · 15/02/2008 13:33

We put dd in her bed at just over 2 yrs. She is still in a sleeping bag though and amazingly enough, she does not try to get out of it (even though she knows how to). She is 2.8 now and we are getting a proper single bed for her soon so she'll get a duvet too.

madamez · 15/02/2008 13:35

Have only just put DS into a big bed at 3.4. Possibly because he was in a cot for so long, he accepts that bedtime means staying in bed, and sleeps happily. (OK, I know that posting that means he will discover, TONIGHT, that he can get out of bed and run riot...)

ja9 · 15/02/2008 13:39

on his second birthday. then into a big proper bed at about 2.5 so that we could use cot for dd.

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