LO is in his crib now and I already bought the toddler conversion rail for when he's ready to get in and out on his own.
How long did your LO use their crib (set up to accommodate a crib mattress)?
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My kid is 2.5 and still in the full crib. No plans to change.
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He'll be 3 on 9/9 and I JUST got out the conversion kit because it's getting hard to get him in and out. I'm pregnant and it will only get harder. If he was a peanut I'd keep him at least another 6 months. Hes never attempted to climb out on his own and is a fantastic sleeper. So I'm scared but it does feel like time.
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27 months.
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17 months
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26 months full crib, another 7 months in the toddler bed version. Then we moved to a twin to have some transition time for baby to use it later.
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DS is 2.5 and we will have to go shopping for a bigger bed this weekend. He is very tall, though.
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DD1 turns 3 in another week and is still in her crib - she's never tried to climb out, sleeps well, and we like knowing she's contained now that we have a newborn as well. I'm guessing we'll had to transition to toddler bed in the next 6 months or so as she's asking to use the bathroom in the middle of the night more often now.
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@Mrs. Pickle: so what kind of bed is she in now? How'd that work?
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DS1- 2 1/2 years, the last 6 months as a toddler bed.
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DD is 2.5 and really tall but still using the full crib
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She made it 3 years + 1.5 mo in a full normal crib! She got upgraded to a big girl bed (we went right to a platform queen bed-- because we had an extra queen mattress and buying a platform frame only cost us like $120) and the crib is now waiting for 2.0, due in Sept.
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@travellingbee: she's in a toddler bed. Since DH and I built her crib it didn't convert. She transitioned really easily, even though we were dreading it. We thought about going straight to a twin but decided to get something lower to the ground. I think we'll keep her in the toddler bed until DD2 learns to climb out of the crib.
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we have a mini crib, so its smaller. my daughter moved into a full sized bed at age 25-26 months. we moved her into her new room in her crib, but the bed was set up too. we let her tell us when she was ready. it took about a month or two of being in the room with the bed. she has never gone through a phase of climbing out, and has never fallen out....but she's kind of a rule follower.
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19 months and then into a twin bed.
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@Mrs. Pickle: hmm interesting. I'd like to transition DS2 sooner rather than later because I want to put the boys in the same room and have a guestroom again finally. I'm thinking sometime after Christmas, when DS2 will be two.
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2.5 year old is in a toddler bed, same crib mattress but different bed because our crib was super cheap and didn't feel so study minus a wall. I hope he will be in that toddler bed until he is ready for a bunk. He's huge, so I am for sure pushing it, but there's not much choice.
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Each of my LOs stayed in the crib until about 2.5. LO 1 could have stayed much longer, but we needed it for the baby.
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L used her crib until 23 months when we swapped to a twin so baby sister could have it. R was in the crib until 25 months when she switched to a twin (bunk beds and sharing a room with big sister) since we were moving. Both transitions went well. Both times there was a reason we needed to move them out, but if there wasn't I probably would have left them in longer.
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3 years 4 months for DS1.
I doubt we'll go that long with #2.
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I hope my son stays in his til he's 10 years old. He's 19 months old now and doesn't realize he's tall enough to get over it.
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Til 4.5 years. And it was smaller than a typical US crib (UK "cot" size). At 5.25 she still sleeps in it sometimes for fun (it's still in her bed set up as a sofa/reading area). We lived in NYC though, so were in no hurry for larger furniture.
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None of my three made it to 18 months in the crib. I make early climbers.
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We converted the crib to a toddler bed at 2y2mo because he climbed out of it.
We are still using the toddler bed at 3.5yo. Eventually I assume we will buy him a twin. We have been unsuccessfully TTC a second for a year and a half, and when we started that process I figured that we would get him a bed when we needed a crib again for a baby. At some point we may just do it anyway.
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Today is her first nap in a converted crib. She's 2 y 5 mo. We were going to do it once she started crawling out of her pnp then she broke her leg so it was on hold for another 2 months.
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21 months, but not by my choice! So far it's going well though. We went right to a twin bed because we had it set up already and I like being able to lie down with her if she needs it.
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When ds was 2.25 I turned rhe crib into a toddler bed, but kept the low side pushed up against the wall. I had just had a c section and couldn't lift him out so I would slide the crib and he would hop down. We then flipped it around to a real toddler bed around 2.75 years old. He got a real bed at 3.25. So we got good use out of it. And will probably use it again for baby #3.
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Thanks everyone. Looks like I won't have to worry about a big boy bed alternative for quite sometime. I am dreading the day he gets the bright idea to climb out of his crib or over the baby gates leading up and down our steep stairs.
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First kid about 25 months, second kid....indefinitely!
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@Mrs. Lemon-Lime: it may never happen! Mine is almost 3 and has never attempted to climb out of his crib or the one gate we have.
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@Mrs. Lemon-Lime: 20 months for us...my son started vaulting himself out of his crib instead of going down to sleep. One afternoon, for his nap, he slithered off my lap and put himself into the futon and that was clearly that!
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My oldest is 4.5 and still using his toddler bed (converted crib with same crib mattress). Doesn't look like we'll be changing anytime soon.
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My girl is still using hers and she will be 4 in less than 2 months. We switched from the crib to the toddler rail at around 2.5 years. She was fallen out once (I say fallen because I honestly don't think she meant to climb out) and it scared her enough that she never did it again. We switched to the toddler rail while potty training, but could have kept her in the crib part longer.
LO2 will inherit the same crib when we move him out of his mini crib, so our crib is going to get like 7 or 8 years of use.
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@looch: this made me chuckle
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