When did your toddler move to a 'big bed'

[~Jayne~]

My oldest moved into her big girls room right around the time of her 2nd birthday & my youngest has just made the switch & she's just approaching 2.5. HTH!

Also, in respects to them playing outside, I encourage my 2 to play out there a lot, but I am lucky I have big back windows & can keep a pretty good eye on them most of the time, we don't have a dog (yet) so apart from the usual thrills & spills, there is no 'immediate' danget to them.

Jayne

[danniellabella]

I'm planning to move my DD when we move house in October. She'll be 19 months. She's not going into a toddler bed though, straight into a normal single bed.

[Trillian]

We put the older two into a single bed when they were around two as we needed to kick them out of the cot for the next baby LOL and #3 went in about the same time, I think it was probbly 22mths - she wasn't actually two yet anyway. #4 will be in the cot for a fair while longer I reckon and he's 2 next month. He's just not ready for a bed - we tried taking the sides off his cot a few weeks ago and he wouldn't have a bar of it, plus he's a really restless sleeper and he would just fall out.

[maz]

my first 3 were all in a normal single bed by their first birthdays....easy..no problems at all. They co slept with us so that may have made life easier.
Mateauz though ....he has only just gone in the last month (he's 19 months) cause he thought it would be fun to pile his blanket in the corner and stand on the rail of the cot and jump . HE would scream in the normal bed...hated it so we had to dismantle it and we ended up buying him a toddler bed. Its taken a little bit but he now loves it.

Outside play.......I still dont leave Vy alone outside..I just cant im to scared she'll hurt herself...she's almost 3

[Arimeh]

I think DS was about 21 months - it was a few months after Miss M had arrived, and we needed the cot for her.

He was always banging his head on the end of the cot though - so for a year we put up with constant wake ups. He's better now, his bed is an IKEA one so its really low to the ground, so even if he falls out, he doesn't really fall, just slides.. lol...

We were thinking of moving Miss M soon, just because she keeps on hitting her head too on the end of the cot, and I don't want to put up with a year of constant waking up every hour cos she has shuffled to the other end of the cot!

As for outside - DS will play outside now for a little while by himself, but prefers me to be out there so we all go.

[SammyRo]

Trill and Arimeh - when you moved the older ones out of the cot to make way for the new baby, how did they cope? DD will be 22months when the next bub arrives, and the plan was to move her into a bed and then the cot will be free. But did you do it a while before the new bub came along, or when bub came home from hospital? I;m just worried about whether she'll get jealous about losing her bed to the baby.

[Evie76]

Hi Nettie

Daniel went in to a big bed around February because we knew the new baby was coming (one day - or so I've heard!!) He had a bed guard on, but we've since taken that off. He doesn't fall out. We went out and made a big deal of buying a Lightning McQueen quilt and new sheets with cars on them. We still call it "Daniel's big bed." He really likes that. He never slept this well in the cot either.

As for playing outside. Not for ages yet. But I suppose it depends on your set up. If I had the pergola set up so I could cordonne it off (with gates), I'd probably happily let him play on the porch unsupervised. I don't know that I'd let him out in the yard by himself though. But my yard is still under construction, so probably not a good example.

[~*Niadalla*~]

DS decided he finally wanted to sleep in his single bed a few weeks ago and we've not looked back since. It was very very easy. We need the cot for DD soon too, so it was great timing!

[PinkPalace]

DD ws 18 months when she went to a big bed.
Gosh i wish i waited until she was 2..

it was a long painful exhausting 6 months!

[Arimeh]

Trill and Arimeh - when you moved the older ones out of the cot to make way for the new baby, how did they cope? DD will be 22months when the next bub arrives, and the plan was to move her into a bed and then the cot will be free. But did you do it a while before the new bub came along, or when bub came home from hospital? I;m just worried about whether she'll get jealous about losing her bed to the baby.

Miss M was about 2 months old when he went into his bed.
We let him choose his bed at IKEA and then put it together for him - in front of him, whilst saying it was his bed. We then set both the cot AND his bed up in his room, and said to him at night, this is his bed, and kelti's cot - so he didn't seem fussed at all when we moved it into the other room about a week later and she went into it - cos we'd told him for a week or so that it was kelti's cot and he had his big bed.

Never been any issues here.

[Trillian]

Trill and Arimeh - when you moved the older ones out of the cot to make way for the new baby, how did they cope? DD will be 22months when the next bub arrives, and the plan was to move her into a bed and then the cot will be free. But did you do it a while before the new bub came along, or when bub came home from hospital? I;m just worried about whether she'll get jealous about losing her bed to the baby.

The Erin and Paige were 3mths old when they needed the cot, so there was enough time to get Lindsay, and then Erin used to the idea of being in the bed and not the cot. We already had the beds set up and they were using them for day sleeps for 2-ish mths before the final move. Luckily it was never an issue for us, but we've had friends who ended up getting a second cot on loan for a little while.

Jac, I think Alister will be at least that old before he moves out of the cot too LOL, so you wont be the only one.