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Transition from Cot to Bed
Hello Everyone
We got my daughter (2 in feb) a toddler bed
this week as she has 'really really' outgrown her cot, and she LOVES the bed, even brings visitors up to see it and always wants up to it during the day, but at night - thats a different matter.
She goes to bed ok, as she has a great night routine, gets a bath at 7pm, in bed for 7.45, where I read her a book and she falls asleep fine (as long as one of us are with her, when she was in her cot we could just leave her) and she has a night light. Its when she wakes up in the early hours the problems start.
she has been waking every night this week around 1am - 1.30am and refuses to go back to bed, gets herself Hysterical. The first night I was determined to keep her in the bed and kept bringing her back to her bed, tucking her in, kissing her and left the room,but she was out of it straight away, this went on until 6am, (6 hrs) until we gave in
and brought her into our bed, this happens every night now, I've litterally been
up from 3am this morning (and in work exhausted) as
she now refuses to even get into bed with us. We are exhausted as you can imagine, but she is also exhausted and not getting any sleep what so ever, because its not as if she will finally go to sleep.
We have to be out of the house for 7am, now that we have started going back to work, and don't know what to do now, its not helping with my relationship with hubby as we are at eachothers throats now.
your advice would be appreciated.
TopCat1 03/01/2006
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ. By toddler bed do you mean one with a little barrier at the head end? Is she sliding down the bed and falling (or has she fallen maybe just once) out of bed do you think?
My youngest was a real wriggler & roller & need extra barricades.(I wedged the side of the dismantled cot next to the bed with a chair) I think they must subconsciously adjust to not rolling too far after a while.
Hope you get some sleep soon!
It takes a lot of perserverence at first, but within a week or two, if you're consistent, you will see results. Good luck - Diane
We had a similar problem with our little one - she loved her bed but demanded attention in the night. We did the putting her back in bed and leaving her thing but she kept getting out of bed and coming into our room.
We finally resorted to putting a baby gate across her door - so we could get in easily but she couldn't get out. She screamed a bit for the first couple of nights but eventually got quieter, and finally gave up completely.
It was so successful that we left the gate on for a long time so that she didn't come into our room as soon as she woke in the mornings. Now that she's 4 she asks if she can come in our room in the mornings, and if we say no she's fine! We have privacy!!!