He has never tried to climb out and he's an awesome sleeper, so I've been clinging to a crib for as long as I can. But damn he's heavy and it's getting hard to get him in and out!
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@sweetiepie my DD is the same as your DS (not climbing out, sleeps great) so I'm following. My issue is I'm pregnant so the belly is starting to get in the way of putting DD in the crib. she's not too heavy and I'm totally OK with just getting another crib for #2 but people do seem shocked she's still in a crib. If it's not broke don't fix it?
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I'm in the same boat as both of you. At his 2 year appointment the peds said to start transitioning him to a bed and I am refusing. he will be 2 yrs 9 months when we move and I'd like to keep some consistency so maybe I will transition him a few months after that.
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My DS's nursery has always had a crib and twin daybed in it. One day he just plain decided he wanted to sleep in the bed and he's been there since. He was an awesome sleeper in his crib and never climbed out, and the same is true in his bed. Well, I guess we find him with more books and toys in there in the morning so he's doing some getting out, but he doesn't get out at bedtime or come out the door even though he can. I have no advice for replicating this unfortunately since we didn't actively "do" anything, but I guess as a positive story that they can keep being good sleepers...
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DD1 - She was past 3 years old, and I wanted her to be able to (try to) use the bathroom at night, or come get us if she needed us. She STILL wasn't climbing out at that age, so we had just never transitioned. And for her, "transitioning" meant taking one side off the crib. We just now at 4.5 bought her a "real" bed.
DD2 - At almost 2.5 years, she started climbing out of the crib out of nowhere. She did it three times a row on a Monday night....I was being induced with DD3 that Saturday. My in-laws were scheduled to watch DD1 and DD2, and had expressed concern that DD2 was too old to be in a crib (prior to her climbing out) because she might hurt herself. I figured that since they'd said that, it wasn't fair to expect them to be responsible for the girls while DD2 was pulling crib antics, so we transitioned her on Tuesday by taking a side off her crib. Not ideal timing, and it did away with naps for a few days, but she's fine now!
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I really don't want to buy a second crib (I can just see me buying a new crib for the baby and then having DD1 figure out how to climb out). We'll probably be transitioning my LO in a couple months. We are moving soon and I'm hoping to keep her in the crib for awhile after the move and then work on getting her to sleep in a bed. She'll be 22 months when LO2 is born.
She definitely has climbed out of her crib and we have had to put her mattress directly onto the ground. She's already a bad sleeper so I'm really dreading the transition!
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I voted that it was hard to get her in/out, but that's because she was rejecting sleeping in it--she kept asking to fall asleep on the floor, lol. Fine for naps but not ideal for overnight! And it was definitely hard to move her from the fooor to bed without waking her
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Potty training. We wanted her to have access to getting up if she needed to use the bathroom.
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My 29 month old is still in her crib ..... I really plan on keeping her there as long as she's happy... She has never tried to climb out and sleeps amazingly . I'm due any day with baby #2 and if the crib is still working for dd1 I would consider getting a second crib.
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Potty training and I was pregnant with baby brother.
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Sleep was a nightmare - we were spending up to 90 minutes holding his hand through the bars of his crib - and we were going to have to sleep train him again. We figured we might as well switch to a bed and handle it all at once.
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We just wanted to do it before she climbed out or anything. The big kid bed horror stories I heard were always after they were climbing out and forced to switch. LO never climbed out of her crib and when we switched her she never got out of her bed - it was like the same thing to her! So I'm glad we did it on the fairly early side (shortly after she turned 2) although it was bittersweet for me.
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He was getting to big for the crib at 3. So a big boy bed it was.
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SIL got my girls beds for their 2nd birthday...which we were very grateful for. We were no where near moving them into beds and told her so when she said she wanted to get them beds. She agreed that they would be stored until we were ready....yea, a couple weeks later she says she's on her way over with the beds to have them put together. I was pretty livid tbh. The transition sucked the first week or so then got better. Sooo...other? Ha
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We needed the crib for baby #2, and she was 3. She had never tried to climb out or anything.
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Climbing and interest in big beds.
DD1 climbed out at 18 months and I found her in the big bed we had already set up in her room.
DD2 climbed out at 15 months and kept insisting on taking her naps in her big sisters bed. DD3 was going to need a crib soon anyway so we went with it. -
My DS1 climbed out the week before his 3rd birthday and hit his head. He is a very cautious guy and would not have attempted to climb out again but DH was freaked out and we got him a big boy twin bed. A few weeks later, after a failed attempt at room sharing with younger DS who was still in a crib, older DS requested to sleep in the crib again rather than in the bed. He stayed in the crib until around 3 yrs 8 mos when I was 8 mos pregnant and absolutely could not get him in or out (44 lbs), did the toddler bed for a few weeks and then he went back to the twin bed. DS2 was climbing out and leaving his room every time we put him in, that was about 1 year 11 mos, shortly after DS1 finally got into the twin bed actually.
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He was over 2.5 and it seemed like it as time
At my moms when we go visit she only has one crib - we wanted to put Dd in it
So much easier for travelling now. He can just sleep in a bed instead of having to find a crib or dealing with crappy sleep in a pack n play. -
My son was losing his cool every night over bedtime and nothing helped until he asked to sleep on his pillow (it's a floor pillow in his room). He did great, and we converted the next day -- solved all of our bedtime problems, at least at the time.
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I haven't yet but my motivation will be to use her crib for baby #2 due this summer and also just hoping she will sleep through the night. She still ends up in our bed every night so I have wishful thinking that if she has a bed that feels like ours that she will sleep better.
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We were having a lot of trouble getting to go to sleep. It was taking longer and longer and I was spending all sorts of time laying next to the crib singing and whatnot. A few of the moms in my birth month had done it early with success and encouraged me to also. So at 20 months we took the side off the crib and put on the little toddler rail.
It didn't do much for bedtime, but the transition was seamless. He treated it like a crib. I've found with him if we do big transitions early then he doesn't get too attached to whatever is. Like bottles or the crib.
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We moved him as late as we could stand it. He was over 3.5 years old, never tried to climb out, and loved sleeping in his crib. It was just kind of silly having such a big kid in a crib, so we made the change to a toddler bed (with no issues at all, he still kind of treats it like a crib and calls for us). I'm glad we waited, actually! Now with #2 on the way, he's in a twin bed and transitioned easily from the toddler bed to the twin bed.
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2 bedroom apartment and I didn't want to buy a second crib that would only be used for a short time. Ours is not convertible into a toddler bed. He was 22 months.
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Started climbing out at 21 months - no longer safe.
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She was almost three. We were moving so it felt like the right time to just start her in our new place in her big girl bed. And baby #2 was on the way (even though he's over 7 months old and has never slept in the crib
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We moved DD at 3 because I was expecting in a few months. We wanted to transition her before the baby came. Plus, I was trying not to life her anymore.
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We moved DS1 at 2.5 because his little brother was coming and we didn't want to buy a second crib.
Now that we're expecting DD, we ended up buying another crib anyway. DS2 is 18m and not even close to ready for a bed yet.
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Needed crib for #2. DD was 3, never climbed out or anything, we could have kept her in the crib if needed
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Potty training! We actually didn't transition Xander from crib to bed until he was 3.5, even though we started potty training at 2.5. As he's gotten older and able to go longer overnight without peeing in his pull-up, we were having to get up and go get him so he could go potty. Finally we got sick of it and transitioned him to a toddler bed so he could go himself.
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Potty training for us. Our older was showing interest at 2y 3m. I didn't know how long it would take to train so we went for the bed transition first.
LO2 is more adventurous and feisty. I want to contain her as long as possible!!
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Mine started refusing to sleep in her crib at about 26-27 months. We moved her to a floor bed and the sleep issues resolved themselves immediately.
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At 2y4m we haven't transitioned yet, and I'm REALLY trying not to do it until after we move in June. Right now, the only reason we'd transition is if 1) he starts climbing out or 2) he potty trains and need access to the bathroom (don't see that happening anytime soon!)
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She was a climber.
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They were consistently climbing in and out, so we decided we needed to before someone got hurt. I'm a big fan of leaving them in until you have to for whatever reason, though, so I say embrace that sweet containment!
For what it's worth, the twins were between 2 1/2 and 3 when we moved them to regular beds and the transition was SO smooth. I think because they were older we didn't have many problems with them getting out of bed. They seemed to be able to grasp the concept of what bed was for and it was no big deal. I had been dreading it forever, so that was a welcome relief.
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E was never a climber. We transitioned in preparation for potty training.
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@mamag @adira were you able to successfully night potty train by transitioning to bed? DD is just 2 and pretty much day trained but wears a diaper at night in her crib. Reading the other thread re: night potty training freaked me out that she would be in diapers for 2 more years if we let it be. Did you teach your LOs to get up and pee in the MOTN?
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Climber here. DH was actually in the bathroom while LO1 was supposed to be sleeping. He was washing his face, turned around and LO1 scared the crap out of him by standing in the doorway asking him what he was doing. We took the front of the crib off at 2 years 3 months!
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started climbing out after sleep was over at a little over 2. then a week later started getting out 5+ times before bedtime, so i switched the crib to a toddler bed that night!
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OTHER.... had to transition him to get the crib for the new baby.
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I can't believe how few of you have climbers although my LO is 90% for height so she has an advantage. Once she learned to get out though, she absolutely wouldn't stay in. The transition was fairly easy though. Took a few days for her to learn to stay in bed and go to sleep.
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