18 month waking up and now can climb out of cot!

[CJA]

My daughter has always been a great sleeper down at 7pm and usually has to be woken at 7am. However last few weeks she has been hard to settle and has stood in her cot shouting mummy or daddy and getting hysterical. Last night she woke at 2am shouting and when we tried to settle her then leave her for 10 mins she climbed out of her cot! Not sure what to do - should she be in a bed now and also why she is now difficult to settle, we both work full time so her being up all night won't be something I would want happening regulary. Any advice would be much appreciated so we can get her back to her routine!

She's worked out you don't sleep alone so why should she?!

She's cross and determined?

Is the cot down to it's lowest level? Did she climb on a pile of toys to give her the extra oomph to climb out? If so get them out (leave her favourite one though).

It's a bit early for a bed - but if you decide to go down that route make sure you put a stair gate on her door if you're going to leave it cracked open. In fact if she can climb out now I'd get one now!

The rapid reteurn method (settle, leave, return - settle, leave, return etc) should work fairly quickly - will the sit in her room and ignore her apart from calm settling.

Other than that - is she cold? Is she teething?

Good luck for the return of peaceful nights

that was "as will..." btw

Does she sleep in a sleeping bag? It's much harder to climb out wearing one of those.

Once mine were climbing out of the cot I put them in a bed, with a guard rail and put a stairgate across the door. Ds2 once got wedged between the "headboard" of the cot and the wall. It just becomes too dangerous IMO. As long as you make sure there is nothing in the room that they can hurt themselves on/with I think it is easier than worrying about them falling from the top of the cot rails. Indeed, a mattress on the floor is best - not too far to fall.

If you put them in a bed, though, you must make sure there is no way the bed can move if it is next to a wall, in case they fall between the bed and the wall IYSWIM.

i have a 2 and a half yr old she also started to wake crying calling murrey(mummy) its cute makes me smile even at 3am they say that there imagination starts going into over time and things can upset them has she have any pictures on the wall or something that could be upseting her during the day i found out my daughter was upset with a picture of my dog, silly

A bed, as quickly as poss I would say, with a stairgate at the door.

She sounds like something has triggered this change.. does anything ring a bell, something to make her afraid? I would use the baby methods, even though she's 18mo and it's knackering for a while..you know, the no eye contact, dark room, just your presence.

But still, if she can climb out, a bed for sure. Ikea do nice low cheap ones.

My ds is about a month younger than your dd CJA and was climbing out of his cotbed so i changed it into the bed put stairgate at the door as other posters have suggested and he sleeps a lot better in it and doesnt move around as much as he did in his cot.

hes been in it now about 2 weeks

As they get bigger and more active they bang their arms, legs and heads on the cot sides. It must hurt.

my 19 month old doesnt want to sleep or go to bed in cot and wakes doing the same thing and is hard to get back to bed. Ive been thinking about a bed for a while now as she loves her older brothers bed. but i worry about her at bedtimes and whether she would be even harder to get to sleep - at least in a cot I can leave her a few minutes to try and self settle without worrying about her getting out. She has attempted to escape though and got her knee stuck inbetween the slats with a bad bruise so im just waiting for the day she does it. Is 19 months too young for a bed - ive even checked out all the ikea ones already and they look fine.