Bed Transition

Have you thought about moving him to his new room BEFORE the new baby comes? Or having new baby sleep in a bassinet in your room at first while moving H to his new room? I have heard of older siblings dealing with feeling "replaced" or pushed out of their "baby" slot by the newcomer, and can feel jealous. I have heard it is good to move the older sibling into their new bed, because they are a "big boy" now, and then a few months later move the baby into the crib. "Since no one is using the crib anymore, it would be a good place to put the baby, don't you think, H?" Just a thought. We didn't have a new baby coming (DARN IT!!) :) when we transitioned our youngest into a toddler bed. He took a few months to want to go. He would beg to stay in his crib, until finally he was able to move on. I think a new baby right then would have been hard for him, and we would have kept the baby in a basinnet or port-a-crib until ds was comfortable with moving. Anyway, you know your own child, adn how it would rok best. Just some unsolicited thoughts. Congrats on the coming possible addition! Fingers crossed here! :)

I always thought we'd be moving A out some time after a #2 babe was in our room in the bassinet. Looks like there won't be a #2 by the time he needs to get out of the crib, so I'm just watching for signs that he needs to be moved. Chances are, he'll be ready all too soon, and WAY before I am. He's not started climbing out yet. BUT - just yesterday evening, I was on the pho ne an dwe were in his room. He was climbing the outside! But just to put his feet on the bottom rung. It can't be long b efore he figures out how to monkey the rest of the way up the sides, or go from inside out. So I mentioned to my sis to get the loaner toddler bed ready for us. She said what my mom did with us and what she did first w/ her girls was to lower the side of the crib (would end up like a daybed - or maybe both sides) for a while so they could get out, but not fall. I might try that. We have a gate at the top of the stairs, but I was also thinking of putting one/two at his door. Upstairs isn't childproofed really. Sigh. I can't believe we're to this point already! My Motessori-trained friend has the best idea - hers started out in a floor bed from the very beginning (mattress on floor, w /mirror next to bed). So they didn't have to worry at all about this! I had thought about just even putting the mattress on the floor in his room and skipping the toddler bed. I mentioned to my sist

Yes, you are absolutely right, and that's probably what we're going to do. We'll use the cradle in our room for the baby at first, just as we did w/ H. We just aren't going to know for sure about this second child for a little while, so I don't want to move H until we're a little further along. Once we know a little more about the bdad's side of the family and what's going on there, we'll start the room transition. If it turns out we aren't going to take the placement, then I may leave H where he is, turn the crib into a daybed like I'd planned, and we'll have to rethink playspace. Or move. :)

Agreed! We actually have (this is embarrassing b/c it's so ugly) a custom made screen door as well as the regular door, for her room. Why screen you ask?? Because the heat for the two bedrooms upstairs comes from the one register at the top of the stairs, and if we kept the door open, the cats would get in, which we don't want. Sooo.. this way, she gets her heat and gets to sleep without the cats. Yeah, I'm not rushing into the bed transition. So far, she's shown no interest in climbing out. If she ever knew she could, she'd do it all.the.time. But luckily, she just hasn't done it yet or seen anyone else and hasn't figured out to stack up her toys.. yet.

Uh.I went in to check on the kid. And he was sleeping on the floor. No thud. No crying. No known falling. Just sleeping on the floor.GUH! Don't I feel like a heel for not knowing that he FELL ASLEEP ON THE FLOOR!

Hee-Hee! It happens to the best of us, Jenna! One night I found my son sleeping up against the baby gate that is across his bedroom door. Poor kid. But he hadn't cried or anything, so I'm sure he was fine. I took a picture, though.

A mom after my own heart! I forgot to snap one last night! LOL

So, the past two nights, he's ended up on the floor three times. (Twice two nights ago, once last night.) Last night we didn't even HEAR a fall. I just went in to check on him before bed and... well, there he was. He was just sleeping. So I wonder if he got out again.Is this something to worry about (seriously, five inches from the ground) or is this a normal part of transition?

*scratches head*Nick was in his bed for his nap. A knock came at the door. I went in and he said, "Crib!" I said, "You want to sleep in the baby crib?" He said, "CRIB!" So, I put him in the crib and said, "Ni-night." He said, "Ni-night." Of course, this lasted about five minutes. I went in and went to pick him up and he said, "CRIB!" So we sat in the rocking chair and I said, "Why don't you want to sleep in your big boy bed? The crib is for babies. The bed is for big boys." He said, "BI-BOY!" And climbed back in his bed.I think he's not in the napping mood today... or something else strange. lol

Okay, I think we are going to be joining this group sooner than expected. I put Aria down for her nap today and heard a lot of "talking" much more than usual, then silence....I'm thinking...cool she went to sleep. A few seconds later I hear a knock at the door of her room. SHE GOT OUT OF HER CRIB! I put her back in....few minutes later....knock again. She did it all day, didn't nap and finally fell asleep (in her crib) just after bedtime....so I think we need to transition her. She turns 20 months in two days. But I can forsee that she won't be staying in the crib now that she knows how to get out....since she has never reverted back after she's learned things...so...um happily...ya...happily, I think we are at transition time too...YIKES.

Zoe (almost 21 months) has been sleeping in her toddler bed for almost a month now. We tried a month before that, and she ended up on the floor, so we went back to the crib for a month. We have had the toddler bed in her room (a place for stuffed animal storage) since we moved into this house three months ago. We still have her crib up, and she naps in the crib. (She always needs a nap, and falls asleep quickly, but never wants to stop playing to take a nap... so the confinement helps with this issue). I feel like we should be taking the crib down now, but she seems to feel secure in it at naptime. She has never climbed out, and she is pretty short, so I am not worried about that right now. D.

HA! That's a super baby!As an update, Nick doesn't get out of bed. He flops like a fish and falls out now and again. Sometimes rolling OVER the safety bar. Yeah, so I'm glad we went with toddler height instead of a normal twin. Poor bubba. Most of the time he doesn't even wake up.Mommy sure does!

Okay...as expected Aria climbed out of her crib repeatedly so after some talk with my mom, I decided it was time. Today she slept in her big girl bed for nap, she played for about a half hour and went to bed. Tonight, she crawled into her big girl bed, wimpered just a little so I went in and turned on a nightlight and told her that I loved her and she fell right to sleep. That's it....she did it. I was really not expecting her to move out so quickly.... :-( boo, I'm glad my little baby is growing up....but wow....just wasn't prepared. I feel like I need a hug :-). My baby isn't a baby anymore. No one told me it would change so fast. Seriously...I'm being lame I know...but this milestone really crept up on me.

*nods* I, too, was shocked. *hugs to Mama*As I said somewhere else, I think milestones are harder for the Mamas (and Dads) than for the kids themselves. We freak out about them. Over plan. And the kid is like, "Eh, whatever." Ah, parenting. :)

Thanks :-) for the *hug* she slept the whole night in her big girl bed and I woke up to the sounds of her "vacuuming" her room.....sigh