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I would just move her. It hasn't been bad at all for us. She stays in her bed till we come get her. Or she might go get her book that fell on the ground over night but she goes right back to wait for us.

Do you have the option to convert the crib to a toddler bed? This might be an interim step for you? It wouldn't remove the need to babyproof though. We moved our LO to the toddler conversion right around 2. And then to a full bed at 3.

And at nearly 4, she still very rarely gets out of her bed. She'll call for us sometimes even when her things hit the floor.

I wasn't ready either, but one my son decided he wanted out of the crib, I moved him.

@Foodnerd81: Gotcha, we already had the conversion kit so it was a relatively easy (already expensed) way to give it a try.

@Smurfette: I can tell you that having a full bed is great. I do lay in her bed with her every night (or her Dad) and read to her. We sometimes do the same on the weekend mornings. And if she's sick, I'll sometimes climb in with her to keep an eye on her as well. I'm so glad we didn't do a twin bed.

This happened to us a few weeks back! We weren't ready either.... but we were dealing with 1.5 hours screaming per night and so, when E fell in love with a toddler bed at Ikea, we thought we would give it a try. I think she just wanted the freedom to get in and out by choice... (and she was soooo close to climbing out!)

We started by converting the crib. Well.... she kept jumping on her bed and then tripping over the guard rail and face-planting the wooden floor. Fail. Long story short, we ended up with a mattress on the floor. We're calling it a "Montessori floor bed" but it's more like something out of Trainspotting.

Anyway... she loves it. She runs about her room for an hour most nights, in the dark..... but it's better than the screaming so i'm going with it. We had to totally toddler proof after a particularly bizarre incident in which she opened her wardrobe, got out her swimming arm bands, put them on, got back into bed and went to sleep.... ....

Once she is ready to sleep, she usually gets back into bed. Sometimes she falls asleep half in and half out - or falls out of bed - but it's okay..... Screaming is minimal now!!

@Foodnerd81: I would! It is only a couple months. Plus a lot of kids fight the transition, so if she is making it easy, do it!
@MamaG: yeah we aren't doing a twin. It doesn't make sense to me to do it that small.

We just went through this. LO was crying in her crib and pointing to the big bed. One night, when I said, "No, that's Nana's bed. M sleeps in the crib" (because my mom sleeps there when she visits) and M said, "No, My-My's bed!" And pointed to the big bed again.

So she's been sleeping in the big bed for a couple of weeks--her sleep is the exact same, which is....crappy. Her first 3-4 nights in the big bed she slept like a dream--STTN and just called for us in the morning. But now she's back to her nightly wakeups, but that was also happening in the crib.

She doesn't run around her room though! She doesn't really get out of the bed--just screams for us at the top of her lungs.

I would just move her. She's giving you all the signs and you need the crib relatively soon anyway. She just solved a problem for you!

We used a bed rail and moved her to a twin bed just before her second birthday. Kinda crazy but she did great. She wasn't climbing either but she was asking about the big bed so we went for it. We still used a monitor because she wouldn't crawl out without us.

One thing we really did was to not lay down in bed with her. We pulled up a stool next to the bed and would rub her back or hold her hand but that was it. I would make sure she isn't wanting the big bed just to be next to you.

I think this is one of those situations that it's not really up to you your child is ready so you have to go with it. Our daughter made the choice at 18 months (YIKES) by continuing to climb out of the crib, it was a safety issue for us so we removed the front of the crib and then bought a single bed a couple weeks later (she stayed in this better than the removed front/toddler bed due to be higher up.) We also used one of those mesh rails and just took it down at 2 1/2 years old.