Hellobee Boards

We moved my older daughter out and into a bed at 2 no problem. My younger daughter is 23 months and has been out of her crib just on a floor bed for about a month without a problem. So far, neither girl has fought sleep, dealt with massive falling out of bed issues or had trouble sleeping.
We moved my older one out 2 months before her sis arrived, and started talking about the crib as the bed for the new baby. No probs with transition.

I have bought a toddler bed for Lo#1 and plan to move her when we get back from vacation in a few weeks. She'll be 20 months old and this will give us 2-3 months to transition before LO#2 arrives. The only thing I'm apprehensive about is potential midnight exploring (that is getting out of her bed and playing or rifling through her dresser). A friend told me that she never showed her daughter (around the same are as mine) that she COULD just climb out of bed and somehow it just hadn't seemed to occur to the little girl?! Sounds crazy but I'm hoping I'll get lucky too!

i wish we had moved charlie sooner. the only reason he stayed in his crib until 26 months was because his sleep sack stopped him from climbing out. he could climb out way before then. the transition was horrific!

with olive, we inadvertently transitioned to a floor bed at 26 months. if we hadn't i think she would have easily been in her crib until 3+ and she never would have tried to climb out. but she started wanting to sleep on her floor bed recently (i used to nurse her and fall asleep next to her in the morning for an hour).

that is kind of young, but it really depends on the child!

We moved to a toddler bed at 15 months with no issues. She does sleep on a cot at daycare which helped with the transition I think.

@Mrs. Confetti: I was just going to say the same thing!

I'd use a PnP bassinet or something along those lines for the initial few months until you feel your toddler is ready for a big bed. My LO is 19 months and we've just had our second baby as well. I wouldn't feel comfortable moving my LO out of her cot yet, but we plan on using our PnP with the new baby for the next six months anyway so it's not an issue.

We moved LO to twin mattress on the floor at 19 months and he adjusted within a week. Recently at 2.5 we added the bed base underneath because he's big enough to climb up now. It was really pretty easy.