We left the doors open when our older two went into big beds for the first time. They panicked if it was shut tight. Also their rooms were quite a distance from ours and I wanted to be able to hear them if they cried. They didn't generally wander... they would sometimes come into our room to sleep but that was/is ok... we wanted them to feel safe and able to access us. Also I would worry that if their door was shut and there was an emergency then they'd be reliant on someone letting them out as our doors have very high old fashioned handles. I's a tricky one... if their room was closer to ours and they were prone to wander I guess we'd have to shut them.
We've always had the doors shut, and continued to do so as this is what Nina was used to. If we left them open, especially at night, she'd never sleep. She's never been distressed that the door is shut. When she wakes up, she has a little play, then knocks on the door and calls out to me.
We shut DD as when she was in a cot it was always closed aswell, she doesnt mind at all and is the same as Jodi's DD she will wake have a play and then bang on the door when shes ready to exit! my DD is almost 21mnths and has been in a big bed since 16mths
I shut the door... Annika will not sleep with the door open
I tried shutting til she drifted off then opening when i went to bed.. only to wake up a few mornings with the house a bit trashed and someone asleep on the lounge
and lol Nessa. i have a feeling this is exactly how i would find our house lol
Well she is on the floor atm asleep so will see what she does wheen she wakes up.
I wonder if i should take the portacot away for a while and have her on the mattress on the floor.
But then will she get confsued going up in height??
We pull the door to for DS but not in its frame if that makes any sense and this way he can get himself out if necessary. When we first (successfully) transitioned i taught him that when he got up in the morning the first thing he does is come and find me...i was/still am sleep deprived so wasn't always hearing him...we used a reward chart & treats and this was when he was around 26 months
Nina was 15 months when she went into a big bed.
I think it's best to go straight into the big bed from cot. We made a big deal out of her being a big girl now, and she needs a big bed. And that the baby was having the cot. She helped us rearrange the beds and also helped choose her bedding.
Try and make it fun for her.
I close the door but not all the way. I prop it open with a shoe, and it means that while it keeps his room dark, he can come out and find us if he's had a bad dream or is distressed.
The past 2 days i have put the mattress onthe floor - as DD will also be starting Daycare tomorrow and this is how they sleep - no cots.
Yesterday she was half asleep and didnt mind
Today - i have put her in there and closed the door . There was 10 minutes of wall bashing and crying and now is all quiet... want to peek to see if she climbed onto the mattress or not but dont want to wake her lol
lol aussie... i went to check on her and i couldnt open the door. all i could see what a foot. so i snuck the camera in the take a photo so i can see and she is alseep on the floor hugging pooh bear at the door... oooh i have moved her now onto her mattress.
My eldest niece transitioned to a bed quite well, but after a few months when she became more confident at getting out of bed she started roaming the house at night. she didn't trash the place or go to sleep in the loungeroom. My sister would just wake in the middle of the night, (a bit of mums intuition) and find her sitting in corners by herself in the dark. It all sounds a little evil really, but to stop my niece from wondering she kept the door open but put a saftey gate on the bedroom door so my niece if awake at least had to stay in her room, but the door was still open so my sis could hear her.
we have always shut the door to the boys room and they have been fine with it we have a nite light in there and they listen to a tape while they go to sleep but they know they only come out to go to the toilet
we propped the door open with the tigers paw.... yes DD#1 has an almost life sized toy tiger so his paw worked a treat. We've transitioned to a shoe as we've moved her bed around so there really isn't much space for the poor tiger anymore, hehe.
I kept the door open probably more so for me as we had just moved house so wanted her to feel she wasn't shut away in a strange place iykwim? (we shut her door at our old house) and so I could hear her but we taught her from the beginning that she was allowed to call out (our rooms aren't too far apart) although she didn't go into her big bed til 2&1/2 - the cot converted into a single bed with side rails.
Am having to remind her that I want her to stay in bed til I get her up as I am finding her sitting on the lounge with a book but its so dark she can't see anything! I mainly want her to stay in her room as its freezing in the lounge first thing in the morning! But she does know that she can come out to go to the toilet.
Introducing a BIG BED - shut the door or not??
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SIL wasn't able to get into the room without her waking.. Was so funny and cute!!
I mainly want her to stay in her room as its freezing in the lounge first thing in the morning! But she does know that she can come out to go to the toilet.
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