My 2.5 yr old has been very good about going to bed at night in her crib in her own room. This summer we have been spending most weekends at our shore house and we have been sharing the same room. She has her own bed and we have ours, but we are in the same room. She is in a twin bed with rails, the portable crib that she slept in the past 2 yrs she has grown out of. I know she has gotten used to being in the same room with us because each night at home it had been getting harder and harder to put her down in her own room. We let her cry a bit and eventually she fell asleep, but now she started crawling out of her crib and into our bed. 2 things happening here, we must now convert her into a big girl bed at home since she is crawling out of her crib, so this means she must sleep with us until we get her new bed and set it up. We can no longer keep her in her crib because she crawls out, we cannot begin to transition her to her new bed yet because we dont have it. This will also be in another room where she is used to being in a big girl bed in the same room with us...oh the mayhem..what to do! Please help...i do not want to confuse her but we must find some plan and stick to it.
Just throwing this out there...if you don't want her sleeping in the same bed with you you could put her crib mattress on the floor until you get the toddler bed set up. My sister currently has her 2 year old on a mattress on the floor as she transitions her into her toddler bed and my niece loves it.
I would just throw her crib mattress on the floor and remove the crib. I'd put it on the floor in her room if you want her to sleep in there after the big kid bed is set up.
We had a problem with my toddler coming out of his room at night. He would be disoriented and looking for me in the middle of the night and I found him downstairs several times. We installed a lock on the outside of his door because it was scary to me to think about him roaming the house alone, esp. going down the steps all sleepy. (We tried a baby gate but he got through it no problem.) Now if he screams in the middle of the night, I hear him on the monitor and go get him and bring him to our bed.
I would begin talking about being a big girl now. When we go home you will go into a big bed like older children do. You will get your own room. My oldest daughter was 2 yrs 8 mos and very excited about having her own room. We put up shelves, tranferring her toys to them, we brought in a dresser that was not new but age appropriate. It had a wardrobe section for her to hang her clothes on.
She couldn't wait to get into that new room and bed in September. My second daughter just moved in with her sister and that made both their transitions smooth as silk.
Might be expensive for such a short term fix, but you could consider a "crib tent" keeps little ones from crawling out. http://www.onestepahead.com/catalog/product.jsp?productId...
other ideas include - install a screen door to her bedroom. its a good barrier, but not a locked door.
good luck and enjoy your big girl.
I agree that putting the crib mattress on the floor is a good idea for the moment. As my mom says, "You can't fall off the floor."
I also have to deal with this issue for my 2.5 year old. I'm not looking forward to all the rearranging and having 2 kids that fight share a room.
