15mth old and a big bed

[~Kim~]

DD was 16months old and all of a sudden peaceful sleep times were an horrendous ordeal. Took me a week to figure out it was the cot....she's never really been a fan of being caged in anyway. Got her a bed and never looked back. She's never had a rail and only fallen out being stupid, but she sleeps like a log. At the start we left the feet off her ensemble so it sat on the floor. The reason we went straight for an ensemble instead of a toddler bed is that toddler beds use the same mattress as the cot and at that age she was already getting cramped.

DS has never ever slept in a cot and has always just had a bed with a rail or my bed.

[Arimeh]

DS was 22 months - we needed the cot for DD1.
DD1 was 14/15 months - I didn't want her to feel like she was being kicked out when DD2 came along, so we switched her over early.
DD1 was 13 months (well still is 13 months..lol) - DH broke her cot and the older two share a double bed at night, so the toddler bed was free.

[sloane]

DS has been on a mattress on the floor since he was just under 10months. i would co-sleep with him from when i went to bed. he just never liked the cot & we did co-sleep in mine & DP's bed but then we moved him to his own room.

for us it was more about how bad he was in a cot rather than him being technically ready for a big bed. we've tried the cot converted to a toddler bed but the mattress is still the easiest because we can settle him lying next to him - which is the easiest in his case.

he's pretty much ready now (18.5months) for us to put the bed together properly i think - we've just held off because it's a matress & base & a king single so it's quite big.