Hellobee Boards

We switch between 2 & 2.5. We transitioned him into a toddler bed. He dropped his nap a couple months after the switch (not sure if it's related but I think he still sleeps at daycare to my disappointment). Now he's in a twin bed at 3.

No real problems sleeping through the night, but he's picking up delay tactics like a kid in a candy store. Which, I think is more age related than bed related, but who knows!

We switched at 2y10m to a toddler bed, and it was rough for the first few months--mostly because he started really stalling at bedtime. bUT it coincided with him mostly dropping his nap, so that helped, because he was so exhausted. But forget napping once he was in the toddler bed--that never really happened again!

Switched at 23 months to a queen bed. It sucked for 2 weeks. Then it was fine and she is still a great sleeper.

Switched right before she turned 2 because she was climbing out. Was fine at first, but now (2 1/2) she gets up at least once a night and either has to be put down screaming by daddy or have mommy pat her back for an hour...
We need to be consistent and just have daddy keep putting her back in.... lots of incentive to stick to a plan now because #2 is on the way!

We switched to a floor bed at 20 ish months. It went fine. He was so excited about his bed. Now 6 months later he has only left his room twice. He always stays in bed and waits for us to come get him even though he can open his door and come downstairs by himself. I think doing it earlier was good for him and our family.

We just did it about two weeks ago the week of J's second birthday. He wasn't climbing out so I was worried that I was messing with a good thing, but we needed the crib for #2 next month--I didn't want to buy a new crib, and wanted J in his new bed for a while so we weren't "stealing his room" for the baby.

We had a double in that room that we used, so we didn't buy a bet yet, we just painted and got new curtains. So far it has been really great. He is SO proud of himself. We bought some re-stickable wall stickers that he put on the walls right before his first nap. The first nap I lay down with him until he fell asleep, and haven't had to since. DH always holds him for a few minutes before he leaves (he did this with the crib too) but he goes to bed awake.

I don't even want to type it, but he hasn't gotten out of his bed yet, he sings or talks to himself before he falls asleep or when he wakes up-which is what he did in his crib. Sometimes he kicks the wall, which he did in his crib too.

I really like the mattress on the floor, since if he does roll out its not that far. When he's awake, he can easily get in and out-- not as easy for me when I lay down with him since I"m 32 weeks along, but its good for him

We transitioned LO1 at 28 months from her crib to a twin. It went smooth as could be. One rough night, then all was well.

We switched around 22 months and she went onto a floor bed twin mattress. She wasn't good in the crib, so it wasn't any worse in the big girl bed, but it had its challenges.

We switched to a twin at 33 months in preparation for the new baby. It went perfectly fine!

We switched before 2. To a queen. There wasn't a big change in LO1s sleep because she wasn't a good sleeper before the change. We had a golden age where her sleep was semi decent and she didn't get out of her bed and just called for us when she woke up----

But somewhere after she turned 2 when we 1) had another baby 2)paci weaned! 3) potty trained, LO1 figured out she could get out of bed and now we are back to sleep problems.

We have the Okay To Wake clock, and that's helping somewhat. But she still wakes nightly at least once and will either scream cry for us or come to our room and shout, which wakes the baby.

But...I'm not sure it's a bed-transition thing. It could be a paci weaning thing. Or a potty training thing. Or a new-baby thing. Surely, it has something to do with all of the above.

DD1 went from a crib to a toddler bed (convertible) around 20 months. It was the best thing ever for her sleep. Bedtime was atrocious and taking almost 2 hours. It literally magically solved our problems.

Bedtime is wonky with DD2 right now. I'm not quite at the desperate stage yet.

I didn't answer about the age because we switched at 18 months. We switched to a twin floor bed and it went really well. We put all of his toys away during the transition so his room was basically just his mattress and bookshelf, and after a couple weeks of him falling asleep in random places around the room and us moving him to his mattress after he fell asleep he started sleeping in his bed. We shut his bedroom door and he wasn't able to open it, so he wasn't able to leave his room once we said goodnight. We are planning on doing the same with our daughter in the next month or so. She is 13 months.

We had no reason to switch, we just did randomly one day. She was 2.5 when we did. It went really well, we had no problems originally. It's only been a few months, and we've only ran into one issue. Sometimes, for whatever reason, she will get up and climb up her change table. We think she does it because she knows we will come in and take her down. ( We do have the table anchored to the wall!) I think I might take it out, but I still use it so it would be annoying not to have it. Aside from that, it's been good.

We just gifted our 3 year old a big boy bed for his birthday. And we took his beloved pacis away and it has worked wonderfully so far #knockonwood. We talked a lot about it leading up to it but the set up of the bed was a surprise for him. He is so proud that he keeps telling everyone who'll listen or won't (he doesn't really distinguish here) where is old crib went to and that he now is a big boy.
His bed is 2m x 90cm (so 6ft 6in x 3 ft) since a toddler bed didn't make sense for our 3ft 4.5in 3 year old. He could get out of his crib since he's about 2 since our crib has removable slats. This is necessary since he is not wearing diapers at night and thus needs to be able to go to the bathroom.

We haven't moved DS yet.... We are wAiting until he starts to climb out. Our pediatrician said not to mess with a good thing. He is 2.5.

@Mrs Green Grass: Your story gives me hope! Xander is 3 and a great sleeper and I'm scared of making the switch. Did you lose naps when you switched? I'm not ready to lose naps...

We just did this in February (LO was 32 months). Her crib converted to a toddler bed, so we just took the rail down. Week 1 was like nothing ever happened. Then she figured out she can get out and started coming out of her room wanting to get in bed with us (she never slept in our bed so that was weird). That lasted for a week - us returning her to bed, trying to calm her down, etc. And then we locked the door, because bedtime was taking hours, and nobody was happy. Locking the door worked like a charm. For two weeks she would still get up and try to leave but once she found the door locked, she would lay around on the floor, tinker with her toys, whatever, and eventually fall asleep. And then a couple weeks ago she just started staying in bed outright, so fingers crossed no further adventures

We switched to toddler beds before 2 for both of our girls, eldest DD was only 18mos, and it went great! I think doing it early is *why* it was easier.

We moved when she was about 2.5. My parents gifted us Lo's bedroom furniture and we just got a full sized bed. Before that, we were all living in one room at my parents house as our house was getting built. We had a toddler bed in there but she never slept in it and would always crawl into our bed. It was just easy to switch as we moved into the new place. The switch went okay. Bc it's a full sized bed and taller, she doesn't get out of it like she did the toddler. Occasionally she does come into our bed in the morning but it's rare.