Claire (Alexia) Zlobin wrote:Hi,
My 18 month old doesn't like her crib anymore, so now she sleeps on the crib mattress on the floor. We have a convertibe crib, so we'll be turning that into a bed in the next two weeks. The last two nights it's taken us an hour to put her to bed, we have to lay on the floor beside her bed and then she falls asleep and we leave the room.
Did anyone else recently stop using the crib, how was the transition from the crib to a bed? How long did it take before your toddler went back to regular routine of going to sleep without you in the room?
Thanks
At about 14 months I noticed that my little one would go hysterical in the crib. She would wake up crying and screaming in the middle of the night. We actually went on a trip about the same time and I noticed that she would fall asleep just fine in a bed with pillows around her. Since she was already walking and able to climb down from a bed so I didn't worry too much. But the major thing was that I noticed that she was much calmer in a bed, even in a strange room than in her crib at home. When we came back from travelling we converted her crib into a toddler bed. She has been sleeping in it just fine since. I think that for the 'confinement' was too much for her. We just make sure that the baby gate at the top of the stairs is locked.
The transition from crib to bed was easy for us, but she did have to get used to it.
