toddler bed and own room help

[Googiepie]

Right now I share a room with both my toddler and my 2 month old! Thank fully they both sleep through the night so they don't wake each other. I bedshare with my toddler. However, I think it might be time for her to have her own room but I'm nervous!!

Our rooms are upstairs and we have gates for the stairs. Would I leave her bedroom door open? Close it? Have a baby monitor? What if she falls out of the toddler bed? She moves around so much!! I guess I'm just too nervous!

How did you transition little one?

 

[zorak]

I think it's one of those you just have to do it. Our LO already slept in his own room so that made the transition easier. Due to the layout of our apartment we put a baby gate on his door but leave his door partially open.

He has been waking at night and standing at the gate shouting for Daddy but I have a newborn and think it's more to do with that. (He dived out his crib the night we took baby home so our hand was forced with the transition. Not great timing!) At the moment Daddy has been going to him and half the time ending up sleeping in there with him. We are giving it a few more weeks before doing some form of CIO. (He responded v quickly to this in the past with minimal crying).

 

[Button#]

I keep the door closed because my DS likes it dark. I just have stair gates on the stairs and if he wants me he shouts. We also use a baby monitor because I have white noise on in our room for DD and I worry OH wouldn't hear him otherwise, also means we can hear him if we go downstairs.

I tuck a rolled up towel under the edge of the sheet so he doesn't roll off and I put a pillow on the floor incase he still falls.

 

[MindUtopia]

We moved our daughter to a toddler bed (in the evening, still bedshared at night for a bit) at 18 months. We keep the door closed and use a monitor. We're too noisy otherwise and wake her up.

We've never used a stair gate since she went into her bed, as we moved house the month before and our stairs are unusually wide now, so our stair gate no longer fit. She's opened the door and snuck downstairs once and just opened the door to the lounge and popped in about 20 minutes after I thought she was asleep. It scared me to death and made me really nervous, but actually it never happened again after that. If I think she's likely to get up and come looking for me (we have the monitor, of course, but she is pretty stealthy!), I just keep an ear out for her for a bit after I put her to bed. But she's never done it since and she's dropped her nap now so she's so tired by bedtime that she's out as soon as she climbs in!

For the first week, I put a duvet on the floor next to her bed and a pillow against the wall so that in case she fell out, she wouldn't hit her head on the wall and it would be a soft landing. She has fallen out a handful of time (it's been almost a year now), but it was no big deal and she didn't seem too phased by it. We were away on holiday a few weeks ago and she was sleeping in a really high single bed and fell out in spectacular fashion. Like we were in the room below and the whole house shook! She did cry. But as soon as I got to her, she pretty much fell right back to sleep and I just tucked her back into bed. She was fine. Some toddlers just keep sleeping and stay right on the floor asleep. I think it's more upsetting for us than for them.

 

[apple_20]

We pull his door closed at night and close the stair hate at the top of the stairs (though to be honest not every night as he doesn't get out of bed. We put a big pillow (my old pregnancy one) on the floor by his bed incase he falls out, which he very rarely does,mainly if we've been away and he's got used to another bed. We are about to transition to a single bed (out of his cot bed- little sisters having it) we are putting a bed rail on it as it's higher up.

Good luck and don't panic if they go through a 'let's run out of bed isn't it funny' phase we just kept putting him back in without talking to him, a week or so later he stopped and hasn't done it since.