Now that she's a toddler, I've got a few questions!

[Kalah]

Just a few questions for the other mothers of toddlers:

1. When should I give her a pillow to sleep with?
2. When do you switch to a toddler bed?
3. When can you let LO walk around outside, like walking down the street with you? My LO is definitely too young for that right now but she's advancing pretty fast and likes to walk around outside but I'm not sure when it would be ok to try having her walk next to me out in public, she's just so tiny.
4. When will she let me hold her hand while walking? Or does that just either happen from the start or never happen at all?

 

[MissPiggy]

hello...my ones a little bit younger but i have answers based on us lol......

1. he's had a 'pillow' (rolled up gro bag) for a good few months, we're getting a pillow pay day (next week) i think genereal consensus is 12mnonths

2. Again when you feel ready i think...we're gonna take the cotbed side off in the next week or so, and see how he gets on...

3...Kaysons been walking since 9.5months, i let him out as and when i want to lol...sometimes its more difficult than others

4. Kay has NEVER let me hold his hand..and i dont see it happening in the forseeable future xxxx

 

[Jchihuahua]

1. When should I give her a pillow to sleep with? Daisy still doesn't have a pillow. I'm going to wait until I put her into a cot bed. She still uses sleeping bags and that's all in her cot.
2. When do you switch to a toddler bed? I will switch when Daisy is about 2.
3. When can you let LO walk around outside, like walking down the street with you? She doesn't tend to walk in busy places but if its somewhere pretty quiet I let her walk alongside me.
4. When will she let me hold her hand while walking? Daisy has always let us hold her hand when she's walking.

 

[XfairyhopesX]

Aiden had his pillow at about 9 months angel xx

 

[OmarsMum]

1. Omar has a pillow since he was a baby as he was sufferin from reflux
2. I don't think we will go for a toddler bed, I'm planning to get a low twin bed. He's still in our room, when we'r ready to move him out(maybe after his birthday) we will get him a new bed
3. We don't walk in streets, we always go to shopping malls for a walk or a park as we live in a main street which is not suitable for walking. Omar prefers to go into his stroller when the mall is busy
4. We never had problems with holding hands, when he goes down his stroller to walk, or when we go out of the car, he automatically holds my hand.

 

[DaisyBee]

Megan uses just a folded blanket as a pillow.... Not a real pillow yet. We went moving her out of her crib til age 2.

We only let Megan walk at certain times. Once we let her walk she has a tantrum whe we try to pick her up or put her in her stroller so I either start with the stroller or know it isn't going to happen without screaming the place down.

She hates holding our hand yet and will sit or kneel on the ground in protest.

 

[bubbles123]

1. When should I give her a pillow to sleep with? It's fine from 12 months but I've never given my LO one. Will do when I move him into a bed.
2. When do you switch to a toddler bed? When you think they are ready really. The toddler bed I have my eye on says suitable from 18 months. I plan to have him in one (or a single bed) by 2 but he's not ready yet.
3. When can you let LO walk around outside, like walking down the street with you? My LO is definitely too young for that right now but she's advancing pretty fast and likes to walk around outside but I'm not sure when it would be ok to try having her walk next to me out in public, she's just so tiny. You can try LO on reins on short journeys if you want. They won't be able to walk safely next to you for some time yet. My Lo only walks in parks etc he is in his buggy on the street as he refuses to walk next to me in reins and would run off without them.
4. When will she let me hold her hand while walking? Or does that just either happen from the start or never happen at all? My Lo let me hold his hand for the first time the other day! He is nearly 17 months.

 

[DebzD]

1. We got DD a very thin pillow just before her first birthday.
2. I have no idea about toddler beds! Going to play that by ear!
3. We let her walk down the street with us/round shops now, but only really quiet streets/shops. If we are somewhere busy she goes in the pushchair.
4. She has always been happy to hold my hand if she is walking when we are out but I guess they all do it when they want to.

 

[RJsMum]

My answers (as they relate to us):

1. When should I give her a pillow to sleep with?
RJ has had a pillow from probably about 7-8 mos but just for naps. It's actually MY pillow and it was initially given because it has my scent and it's comfortable. We probably won't give him his own until he has a proper bed instead of a cot.

2. When do you switch to a toddler bed?
He's 19 mos now and still in his cot. Our loose "plan" was to switch to a bed when he learned to climb out of his cot or starting trying. For now he seems happy in the cot and we're happy to keep him that way a bit longer. Perhaps we will try by next summer if he hasn't shown us he's ready before then.

3. When can you let LO walk around outside, like walking down the street with you?
We started doing little "dry-runs" in the park where he could safely walk along the path without the worry of traffic or things being too crowded. I would put him in his Little Life Bumblebee reins and although I'd have the lead on my arm, I'd still ask him to walk holding the push-chair or my hand (for now while he's this young). He can get quite excitable and run off which is when the reins come in handy. However, today when we took a trip to Weston, DH let him walk with the reins without holding his hand...against my suggestion and he had to scrape him off the pavement a lot because he'd run and then get stopped suddenly by the tug and pull and lose his balance. So much easier, IMO, to just teach them to hold your hand until they're old enough to understand a safe distance to walk next to/in front of you.

4. When will she let me hold her hand while walking? Or does that just either happen from the start or never happen at all?
He really only let us start around 14-15 mos maybe. It started when we'd walk around our garden with him (it's a HUGE garden). There is a slope that goes into a lower-leveled bit and we'd always say, "Hold Mommy's/Daddy's hand," and he would reach up. Now he instinctively does it -- BONUS! It just depends how she listens to you and follows your lead.