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Crib question

About what age did you transition your child into a toddler bed?

Tyler is almost 2.5 and has showed no signs that he is ready like trying to climb out of his crib and is perfectly happy.

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Re: Crib question

  • I apparently slept in my crib til I was almost 4!

    If he's happy, I wouldn't be in a rush. I have a friend with an almost 3 year old who is still happy in her crib. We only put the toddler rail on ours after T threatened to fling herself out one night in a fit of fury. She also now gets up sometimes to go to the bathroom on the little potty we keep in her room, but she always calls us while she's sitting on it.  (there is a gate on the door). We'll be transitioning to a regular bed around her birthday before baby 2 comes. 

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  • We kept Alex in his until just before his 3rd bday.  He never climbed out or anything.  My neighbor recommended keeping him in it until 3 bc it would be easier to talk to him about staying in bed and all that.  It worked well.

    Foster will be 3 in January and he is still in a crib.  I dread taking him out bc bedtime is pretty easy right now.  And as of now he says he doesn't want a big bed. 

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  • We just transitioned Charlotte into a twin bed (with a rail) in May, when we moved :)  She was about 3.5.  She loved her crib and never tried to climb out, so we just let it be.

    Really, we switched her b/c we moved and figured it was a good time (and once we told her, she was SUPER excited about her "big girl bed") to do so.  We didn't want to put together her crib again just to have to switch it a couple of months down the line.

    Also, she fully potty trained (including nights) this summer, so it worked out well b/c now she can get out by herself if she needs to go potty. 

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  • I wouldn't have moved DS, except he finally did crawl out (right at 2.5 years) and we needed the crib mattress for #2.
  • DS was a little over 2-1/2 when we transitioned the crib to the toddler bed.  Then we moved in October and he was a little over 3, we bought him a full size bed since new LO would be needing a crib and we thought the transition to a new bed would be better when we moved then after LO arrived.   It worked out really well for us. 
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  • We moved Luca at 17ish months, because he could get out.  We moved Lila just before 2 because she started to climb out.  I guess my kids are climbers.
  • Finley is 3 and still in her crib, she is happy there.
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  • Anastasia is also 3 and still happy so we have no plans to change it.  She loves it.  My only complaint is the times she does wake in the middle of the night to go potty but it is rare so it really isn't a big deal.
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  • Connor could get out of his, but he kept sleeping in it until he was at least 3 1/2.  Probably closer to 4.  At that point, we bought him a mattress, and he slept on the mattress on the floor until we were sure he wasn't rolling off it... Then DH built him a bunk bed.

     

    One of my favorite pics of him is that first night he was jumping o that mattress...lol 

  • We skipped the toddler bed and went right to twin beds with the boys.  G was 2 and J was 19 months.
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  • Right after his 1st bday, we skipped the toddler bed and went straight to adult furniture. DS has a queen bed against one wall with a rail on the other side. He crawled out of everything.
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  • imagecharlotteL:
    We skipped the toddler bed and went right to twin beds with the boys.  G was 2 and J was 19 months.

    Same for us.  Did it at C's 2nd birthday.

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