Please provide advice/tips/tricks to help move a child (2 1/2) ou tof crib & into their own Toddler Bed. Also on helping child adjust to new room, etc.
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we have given up lol she is so sticky to us when even sleeping!
what we plan on doing is that she will sleep in the middle now and i will take the edge and get a baby bed there, hopefully the new baby will move out before she does. 
ps. i am of no help
Re: Help - Advise on moving child to their own Bed.
So there are two transitions you need to make Afro
Out of the crib and into a bed
In their own room
where is the 2 1/2 sleeping now?
You need to set up a room for the 2 1/2. Make sure you get their choice of bedding. Have some toys around to make them understand that this is their room.
I would get a full size bed in the room and start putting the child. Sometimes at the age - they have a hard time going through the night alone.
I had my 2nd daughter when my older one was 20 months so we had to move her out of our bed into her own room.
My hubby would put her to bed and stay with her until she fell alseep.
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I transfered my son to his own bed when he was like 2 yrs old. we bought a sofa cum bed cuz while living in a joint family sys. we had only one room and had no space for even a small bed... So we introduced that bed to him quite early. not to mention how much criticism we had to face while doing so. Anyway I used to pretend while lying down with him on his bed that I was sleeping with him.. and when he fell asleep I would go back to my own bed.. in the middle of the night when he used to wake up, i had to again go to his bed. After many sleepless nights we finally managed to have him sleep all thru the night.. After sometime we moved out of the country, there we had a 2 room apartment and I moved him to his own room when he was 3 yrs old, and I was pregnant with my second child..
He got scared in the beginning but I told him that if he wakes up he doesnt have to get scared, all he has to do is to come to us.. and after a week he loved sleeping in his own room.. Still I had to stay with him quitely when he was trying to sleep.
He got used to the idea that he can anytime come and sleep with us.. he used to wake up atleast once during the night and then we had to shift him back to his own bed..
Alhamdolillah he adjusted well....
But now when we have moved back to Pakistan in the same room with less space and 2 kids.. we've bought a bunk bed for the kids.. cuz the other room is in FIL's use and the third room is at the other end of the house, kids are too young to be sleeping that far away from parents at night :(
I dont know when will we ever move them out of our room....
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Wow great advice guys. Right now he sleeps in his crib but in our room. But sometimes he wakes up in the middle of the night crying to sleep with us. Stressed
When you move baby to new bed, how do you soothe them when they cry to continue sleeping in new bed? Should I take son with me to pick out his bedding? I mean isn't he too young...oh boy so lost.
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Gosh Sadaf I feel bad for you! It's already confining enough having only one room in a house for your use, but then to have that not even be private must be hard on you! Think of a plan now....and present it to your husband out of concern for your kids, don't make any criticism of your in-laws! Just say 'bache ab bare ho rahe hain' etc...I mean do you want your kids to be sleeping in your room when they are 9,10 years old? Have to act now to prevent this situation!
But now when we have moved back to Pakistan in the same room with less space and 2 kids.. we've bought a bunk bed for the kids.. cuz the other room is in FIL's use and the third room is at the other end of the house, kids are too young to be sleeping that far away from parents at night :( I dont know when will we ever move them out of our room....
Sadaf, why can't the FIL move to the third room at the other end of the house and u get the current FIL room for your kids?
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Jalebi and sadia... its not easy.. I tried that initially we had the room close to our room for our kids.. but FIL insisted that he wants to sleep in the kids room, reason being he's really old he doesnt want to sleep in thr room away from ours so if anything happens to him at night he's able to knock our door and call for help. Initially, my son used to sleep in that room with FIL but that didnt work out cuz in summers FIL wanted to have fan on the lowest setting and obviously a kid cant sleep without an AC. so we had to move our son back to our bedroom...
Every other day I present the idea of atleast decorating the other room (that's far from ours) for the kids but we are still reluctant to do that.. We even thought of moving to that room ourselves and give this room to our kids, but it wont help either. Cuz the kids would still be far from us..
:-/
its really disturbing for us and we need to come up with a solution for this problem.
When you move baby to new bed, how do you soothe them when they cry to continue sleeping in new bed? Should I take son with me to pick out his bedding? I mean isn't he too young...oh boy so lost.
Afro thats a good idea, take ur son with u and let him select the bed himself...
Initially you'll have to sleep with him in his room not with him on his bed but in the same room, and in the middle of the night when he wakes up and cries you'll just have to go with him and tell him that you're there. Dont pick him up and transfer on ur own bed, but encourage him to sleep on his own... During the first week when he sleeps all night on his bed, reward him with something and tell him that its for him being brave and sleeping on his own bed.
Repeat the words "do you want to sleep on ur own bed like a big boy?"
lets go to ur own bed room...
and trick him into liking his bed by saying " oh ur bed seems so good and comfy, i want to sleep here... can i take ur bed?" etc...
He'll start atleast liking his bed... But u cant really help him from waking up in the middle of the night and wanting to move in with u guys. Its going to take some time and patience, but inshaAllah it'll work.. dont encourage him to go and sleep in ur bed.
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Oh man Sadaf :-( FIL is not a baby that he needs u next door! Cann't u get him to contact u in another way if he needs help.
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^ LOL sadia.. bus yaar, it really isnt easy.. I stay quite mainly because he is the owner of this house. If it was our own place I could have done something for the kids' room.
You know you cant convince an old man. He still asks us to shift our son along with him but i dont want to do it for multiple reasons. I think kids also need their own space, which is near to impossible with a person like him.
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Hi afro,
I moved Heba into her own room when she 7-8 months. She’s always slept separately, but moved into her own room at a young age. She has never been clingy so thats what made it easier..
we’re gonna get her a junior bed soon, but im thinking of how i will do that… i know with her, it’ll ber very easy cus she thinks she’s a princess and deserves new things all the time :halo:
this is what i might do… whats his favorite thing? like cartoon? is he into anything? how about you get him a bedroom set that has his favorite cartoons on it.. and just all fun stuff.. that might help the transition?
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Sadaf, have you got a baby monitor? in our new house, we might have to shift heba in year or 2 to a bigger room which will be further away, but i think with a baby monitor it shouldnt be an issue...
i feel for you
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buy him his favourite cartoon character bedding or even something very colourful, definitely put a night light or lamp int he room,accessorise his bedroom with all his favourite things, and start psyching him up, and tell him he's a big boy now..but he might be too young to undertsand all that.
it will be a difficult week or so when you do shift him, when my daughter first moved to her own room, i found i'd be making a few trips to her room every night just to settle her down, i never lay down next to her, but sat beside the bed and held her hand, and told her to call me in the night if she needed me