Has anybody found that changing from cot to bed has helped improve sleep?

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DD2 is 19 months. Since I stopped BF at 10 months she has needed rocking, shh-ing, patting, singing and god knows what else for about an hour to get her to sleep. She usually just screams if you put her anywhere near cot when awake or anything other than dead-to-the-world sleep.

Have just spent a week at my mum's and she slept on a ready bed. She has been ill and had actually fallen asleep while sitting on my knee a few times which in itself is worthy of minor miracle status but on Monday afternoon she crawled into her ready bed and went to sleep. Just like that, no input from me . Then Monday night she went to bed with no probs, then Tuesday, then Wednesday. Couldn't believe it. Returned home yesterday and decided to give the readybed a try at home as a control test. And, yes - 2 more nights on the trot she has happily gone to bed.

I have previously been of the "keep them in the cot for as long as possible" persuasion (in fact DD1 (3.1) has only been out of hers
for a couple of months). Is taking the sides of her cotbed the answer to my bedtime nightmares? Any other children around who have just not liked their cot?

Yes! DS never slept through the night till he went into a cot on his 2nd birthday! Am kicking myself I never moved him earlier! I think he sleeps better cos he doesn't knock against any bars (he's a big lad) and he can get in and out on his own.

Yes! DS never slept through the night till he went into a cot on his 2nd birthday! Am kicking myself I never moved him earlier! I think he sleeps better cos he doesn't knock against any bars (he's a big lad) and he can get in and out on his own.

no face ds2
the only thing that helped him was full time school (sorry...)

Though I am still naive enough to think that it may help ds3 in the summer....

face???

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I would put her mattress on the floor for a few nights and see how you get on

He sounds like ds1. Nightmare to get to sleep but def better in a bed. Think he liked knowing he could get out, though he didn't most of time TBH. Also helped because one of us could lie next to him calmly to get him to sleep if needed.

Not what you want to hear but he's now 5 and still the toughest of our 3 to get to sleep!

Yes! We had the same situation, never once got DD to go into a cot awake from the time she was born.
Switched to a bed at 2 yrs old and it is like a different child
She gets into the bed all by herself, we leave the room, she falls asleep.
It's fantastic, little short of miraculous!

All 3 of mine were in a bed by 18 months and loved it, they all slept better.

I put a safety gate on the bedroom door as well, just for peace of mind.

Happened with my DD. Dreadful sleeper til about 16/17mths when she started to try and climb out of her cot. We decided for my sanity and her safety we'd put her in a toddler bed. She loved it, slept fantastically and has been very good ever since (we also did sleep training with her, but she didn't really settle properly til in her own bed).

I am praying the same happens with DS.

Guess the cot sides are coming off tomorrow then...

I have a slightly irrational fear that it's the readybed she loves and that to get her to sleep decently she'll have to sleep with Igglepiggle for the -rest-- of her life for a while. Still, if this works and DD1's "sticker if you stay in your own bed all night" treatment continues to work then I may be able to start work on my three year sleep deficit

I've just jinxed that, haven't I ?

Absolutely - a definite improvement.put dd is adult single bed - more room to spread out. she hasn't fallen out even with no side bars.

she kept hitting her hands on the sides of the cot and waking herself up.

She hasn't ventured out at all at night, if she wakes up she calls out- I say go back to sleep - and usually she does. She loves her bed as its her big girl bed and I think she is too much of a princess to be bothered to get up herself and waits to be got up by the maid oh I mean me.!!!!

ds has never been a great sleeper, but he liked his bed - going to buy a quilt cover that he chose etc. he would climb into the bed in the day and pretend to go to sleep. this helped sleep be less of a battle, and now he (finally!) can get himself off to sleep with the help of a story cd. can't remember when exactly we moved him, but around 18 months, I think. good luck!

My DS (2 tomorrow!) slept ok in a cot but would wake up once during the night if the quilt had come off and would generally be awake anywhere between 5.00 - 6.30 every morning.

Decided to move him into a bed but rather than buy a single bed we put him in a junior bed and since then he's slept all night every night until 7.00 every morning! even when he wakes he'll sit sit 'chatting' to his bears and will then call to me to go and get him, he won't get out on his own.....,

He loves the bed, loves the train and truck duvet, so long may it last.