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When she gets up is she crying at the door? Or just wandering around the room? If she is just wandering around the room I'd let her be as long as the room is child proofed. With Lydz, we give her a stuffed animal and books in/near bed which she will look at until she falls asleep or if she wakes up early,

Sorry the transition isn't going smoothly for you

Oh no I have no advice but we will be transitioning sooner than later.

ETA: do you have a video monitor with a microphone? I know my SIL's LO tried climbing out of bed but she caught her doing it and told her to get back in bed. She dived back in and never attempted again.

Honestly, I would go back to the crib. It's miserable for both of you. The baby can use a PnP for a while, if necessary, and by then she may want to be in a bed so that she's not the "baby."

We put my DS back in the crib as well.. He's 31 months. We'll try again in a few months because I promised to sell my crib to a friend, haha...

We transitioned my older son to his toddler bed 2.5 months AFTER the baby was born, and it worked great. We made a huge deal out of him being a big kid, and my father-in-law bought him a fire truck bed and bedding, and we got him a new dresser, so he kind of got a room overhaul and he loved it. He was big on saying that he was a big boy now, so the baby could have the crib. He was about 32 months at the time.

We transitioned DS when he was that age, and it was horrific at first but, trust me, it got better. He would come out dozens of times and not fall asleep unless someone stayed in the room until he was fast asleep. What we did was be consistent, be strong, keep putting him back in, and eventually it got to the point where we could say "I'm coming back to check on you in 5 minutes" and he would stay in bed until we got back to check on him. Then we would stretch it out to longer and eventually he would just go to sleep.

We had him in the crib with the side taken off for about 3 months and then just last weekend we put him in the bottom bunk of his real bed, and it has been great. I think he's more comfortable (we got him a nice mattress), and he has his big-boy sheets and pillow, and so he doesn't get out of bed in the middle of the night anymore. Now the crib is free for LO#3!

I would move the crib to her new room! Probably will make the transition to the bed easier!

@HLK208: poor mama and poor E...I hate it when transitions are tough! Does your crib transition to a toddler bed? We removed C's crib rail and put the little toddler bed rail on so it was basically her crib with just a short little half rail. We did this around 19 months. And she only got out once during nap time and I saw her on the monitor and told her it was time for "night night" and that she needed to stay in her bed. I think bc it was basically still her crib in her room it was an easy transition. She's 2 years old now and we just moved her into another room with her big girl bed which is a full sized bed. I think the gradual transition helped.

If your crib doesn't convert to a toddler bed then maybe put her crib in her new room for awhile even if it doesn't match ;). When she's used to it being her new room then maybe switch it out to her big girl bed? I have no idea what I'm doing but those are just my thoughts

Good luck!!!