Transitioning baby to their bed/room...any stories to share?

[WTF]

Re: Transitioning baby to their bed/room...any stories to share?

I've got a 15 month old little girl, same problem. We're at a loss. We're expecting our second in 4 months, so we HAVE to get her out of the bed. My wife has been sleeping on an air mattress with her in her room, to get her used to being in there. Blah. It's been atrocious.

[Chef Matt]

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I have 3 kids. 16, 8, and 4. Each time we went through this with them. The thing I remember us doing after putting them in their own bedroom is laying them down and patting them on the back till they fell asleep, and doing this continually each time they woke up.

Eventually, about a week or so later, they were sleeping 4-5 hours straight.

[snepp]

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Avoid it if you can, but nip it in the bud as soon as possible. The older they get the more stubborn and set in their ways they get.

This x5000, the longer it goes the worse it'll get. The tough love has to start sometime or you're going to have big problems later.

[Scottdau]

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What age did you give them a toddle bed. My son is three now and he still sleep in his crib, but I am thinking about making it into a toddle bed. Thanks for any advice.

[Dame]

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I had the same problem with my son who finally moved out at the age of 2 we had to start with falling to sleep with him in his room. it took awhile but after about a week he was cool with sleeping by his self in his room

My daughter who is 20 months now we are going through the transition now. the only thing that helped is blue's clues because she watches the DVD in her room in her bed then fall asleep

this could have all been converted if on day 1 we didn't allow them in our bed. I knew that after the first kid but the wife overruled me the second time around

[Dame]

Re: Transitioning baby to their bed/room...any stories to share?

What age did you give them a toddle bed. My son is three now and he still sleep in his crib, but I am thinking about making it into a toddle bed. Thanks for any advice.

I skipped that toddler bed and went straight to a twin. the mattresses on them toddler beds is horrible. i put it on the floor until my son turned 4 with the fear of him falling out the bed now its on the metal frame

[Chef Matt]

Re: Transitioning baby to their bed/room...any stories to share?

What age did you give them a toddle bed. My son is three now and he still sleep in his crib, but I am thinking about making it into a toddle bed. Thanks for any advice.

I skipped that toddler bed and went straight to a twin. the mattresses on them toddler beds is horrible. i put it on the floor until my son turned 4 with the fear of him falling out the bed now its on the metal frame

We did the same when they were about 2- 2 1/2, but we have bunks. So, I took a wood railing from and old bunk set I found in a junk pile and rigged it to fit the bottom bunk of my set to keep him from falling.

[snepp]

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We did toddler beds at 2 1/2 or so (they re-use the crib mattresses), then moved into twin bunk beds at 4.


If I had it to do over we'd just skip the toddler beds entirely and just go straight to the twin mattresses on the floor. The kids thought the little beds were pretty awesome though, so there's that.

[Scottdau]

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Thanks. I can't remember what we did for my 9 year old son at that age. Must be losing my memory.

[ExtremeGamer]

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Never did a toddler bed, right at 2 my son got a Full bed. He's slept in it almost a year now without issue.

[acts238shaun]

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Uh. My daughter is 3 and she still sleeps in bed with my wife and I more often than not.

Now that my daughter can communicate her feelings other than crying her excuse is that there are zombies in her room and she cant sleep there.

It is totally our fault for letting her sleep with us so often.

Nip it in the bud before its too late. Else your bed real estate and your sex life take a serious hit.

We're at this point. when the baby goes to sleep we're running into the bedroom and hoping she sleeps for at least 20 minutes. most of the time she doesn't and there no bigger mood killer for us that hearing a crying, hyperventilating baby.

[55]

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[55]

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Oh, just to clarify I don't seriously recommend dipping your infant's pacifier in whisky. Things that were commonplace in the 1950s are now considered child abuse, you know.

I'm just bored at work, sorry!

[Chef Matt]

Re: Transitioning baby to their bed/room...any stories to share?

Oh, just to clarify I don't seriously recommend dipping your infant's pacifier in whisky. Things that were commonplace in the 1950s are now considered child abuse, you know.

I'm just bored at work, sorry!

A dipped sucky works great for teething.

[cardsfan2222]

Re: Transitioning baby to their bed/room...any stories to share?

With our first kid, we gave in way too often when he woke up in the middle of the night and brought him to our bed. Horrible mistake. He's almost 2 now, and has just started sleeping in his bed all night long. Our youngest is 3 months, and already sleeps better than his brother. We never let him sleep in our bed, and it worked out so much better. It sucks getting them used to their own bed though. You just have to stick with it, and not give in even if they scream.