We moved Lucy into her toddler bed when she was about 18months. We let her decorate her new room and pick out the doona and everything for her toddler bed.

She was scared of it at first (probably didnt help it was in a new room too) so Dh just sat with her in there til she went to sleep each night for about 1-2wks, then she didnt need it anymore (got the tip from the Supernanny).

We have had different stages over the last year with her of sleeping all night no problems, waking up and wanting to be put back to bed, waking and wanting to be in our bed, waking and falling asleep behind the hallway door so we would have to wake her to move her out the way when we went to bed (VERY ANNOYING!)

All of the different stages have been related to something turmultuous, ie. toilet training, new baby, FIL dying, me teaching full time and not being around as much, etc. They usually only last a few weeks then we find a new trick that gets her to sleep quickly and things settle down again.

xxxCaz