🚨 Advance warning 🚨 This forum will be closing on 1st May – please see our pinned thread for more information.
big boy bed
Well its just taken 2 of us 45 minutes to convert the cotbed to a bed! You wouldn't think it was so hard would you!! Anyway cole seemed mightily chuffed that he could climb on his bed himself! WE decided to do it as he keeps getting his legs caught in the bars and he's started to try and climb into the cot at bedtime!
am a bit worried though as we've got one of those bedguards and it does make for a bit of a gap at the edge (hubby swears the bottom of the bedguard is meant to point up but I think it should point down) so I've jamemd a blanket down the edge of the bed!!
he's gone to sleep for a nap just now with minimum fuss cause he's tired..but not sure how tonight will be! Wish us luck!!
am a bit worried though as we've got one of those bedguards and it does make for a bit of a gap at the edge (hubby swears the bottom of the bedguard is meant to point up but I think it should point down) so I've jamemd a blanket down the edge of the bed!!
he's gone to sleep for a nap just now with minimum fuss cause he's tired..but not sure how tonight will be! Wish us luck!!
0
Replies
Star11 - Bren used to have a sleeping bag in his cot but just before we moved him into a bed he started getting fed up that his legs were getting tangled in it so we just moved him into a bed with a duvet instead and he had no problems. You could still use a sleeping bag for him though if that is what he prefers xx
Its so funny - he's so pleased he can get on and off his bed himself, and he kicked off till I turned his sheet down for him.
He lay down for bedtime ok but i can hear him burbling away... all his noisy toys (I hope) are turned off cause I don't fancy them going off in the middle of the night - he can get out of the bed round the bedguard so god knows where we'll find him asleep when we go to check on him! Just have to remember to keep the travel gate up on his room at nights now... roll on the next asda baby event for a cheap gate!
Only problem we have now is that he's seen the bed be taken apart and keeps flapping at us to unscrew the screws he can see. he had fun 'helping' take it down. Am very glad we got cotbed though as i think its made it easy for him to accept it
We'll move Gracie inot one just before her 2nd birthday. She's still in a sleeping bag and doesn't try to get out of the cot so keep her contained for as long as poss lol.
think when he goes in bed we'll do the duvet etc and say your a big boy now!!!
he was so chuffed this morning to get himself out of bed and when he goes into his room he always climbs up on it - he's so independant its funny. And..he's been in his room alone for 5 mins and no screaming yet so...fingers crossed one day this year i might get a shower in peace! Just off to clean my teeth and then let him in the bathroom while I shower..not pushing my luck just yet.
Am glad we've switched to a big bed - he likes it and thats good enough for me. Course I might regret it when he figures out he can get out of bed in the night lol
waiting for baby - does zach sleep with you every night? does he have a cot he goes off to bed in and then when he wakes he comes in with you?
xxx
If you are going to do that I would do it while they are still in a cot as once they are in a bed it is a bit more of a nightmare having to go in and put them back into bed. xx
he goes to bed 7.30 (although recently been creaping till 8) and some nights stays asleep till 6am others 5am but he thinks its morning and thats it no going back to sleep! but then we have nights when he wakes crying at all hours and nothing settles him! i am slightly worried if i dont sort it before baby comes along it'll be totally shattered dealing with 2 up in the night and i cant be letting fin in our room with a baby with us in night they both end up awake thinking its morning!
xxxx
Do you have a black out blind in his room? If not may be worth getting one so the early daylight doesn't wake him up.
Also remember if there is nothing in particular upsetting them (like teething) then the only reason he is crying is because he knows crying = nice mummy putting him in bed with her and giving lots of cuddles! xx
xxx