Dreading This Stage of Toddlerhood

15 mos.? My advice is to wait longer. My son started to climb out of his crib when he was under 2. We bought one of those sleep sacs in a large size (you can buy them in fleece or light weight ones). This prevented him from climbing out (couldn't move his legs individually). I even had to put it on backwards for a while when he learned to zip. It worked for a while until he started to throw both legs over the side! At that point I moved him to a mattress on the floor... he was over 2 and it was a difficult transition to get him to nap again, but bedtimes was fine. 15 mos is still a baby and even if he is tall, should still be able to sleep in the crib fine if you can keep him in it! Good Luck!

Honestly both of my kids went to bed so much better when we moved them from a crib to a toddler bed. I always had to rock them to get them to sleep in a crib. When it was time to move to a toddler bed I just told them they get a special new bed to sleep in. I would lay down and read them a book in bed, put a baby gate in the doorway and leave. They could get out of bed but had to stay in the room. I thought it would be a hard transition but with both kiddos it worked out great.

I must have been really lucky in this area. My son never had a crib. Let me rephrase that he never slept in his crib. He co-slept with us until he was 3 then he finally started sleeping in his own bed. My daughter was about 18 months when we got her transitioned from her crib to a twin sized bed (just the box spring and mattress to keep her lower to the floor) we left the crib up for a night or two so she could pick where she wanted to sleep. She picked the bed the first night and has been great ever since. Hopefully your daughters transition wont be as bad as the first

I didn't have issues with my oldest and I moved him at a year. My youngest I had to move younger cause he was climbing out of the crib at 7 month. Yes no joke 7 months. He could pull himself up and over before he could walk. He was in our room so for a long time he ended up with us. I would have never left either on in a crib that long but that's cause I have monkeys. They love to climb. They will climb anything they can and they are 10 and 14.

OMG.. My daughter is almost 2 and still in crib, she is small and hopefully we can get another year out of the crib.

My son- climbed out at 21 months, we had to wait 3 weeks for the conversion kit. We had it on order a week before he started climbing out. So we were "stuck" and had to wait. in order to keep him in the crib, we had to lay on his floor. Once we got the conversion kit, turns out they ordered the wrong one.. We said forget it, and got a toddler bed for him.

We started the sitting in the hall to keep him in, but I swear it was not easy.

Best advise, no talking other than "bed", keep returning until they stop getting up. But don't get mad, just return to bed.. keep talking to a minimum.

Good luck.

I say wait until your child is ready. Is your crib as low as it can go? My kids did the "leg on rail" for a long time before they actually tried to get out. My first child never actually tried to do it (although he did the leg on the rail act to try to get my attention). When he was 3, he decided he wanted a big kid bed and we moved him.

My second - well - he tried to get out just after 12 months. I panicked and put up the toddler bed. Then he REFUSED to sleep in the toddler bed. After a few days of exhaustion, I decided sleep was most important, and I put him back in the crib. He was actually really good a climbing in and out and so I let him stay in the crib until he decided he was ready to move - that was just last weekend, and he's 3. I know everyone will say "but what if he falls??". But, my 2nd was really coordinated and never fell. He was a good climber everywhere else - the playground, etc, and it served him well with the crib.

For both kids, since I waited until they decided to move, it was one of the easiest parts of toddlerhood.

I had very few problems transitioning my kids. With my daughter, we moved her right into a twin mattress, but had her crib right there.she quickly decided to try out the big bed for nap, but she slept in the crib a few more nights. She was young, 20 months. We told her she had to stay in the bed, and that was that.

My son never got up.

A friend of mind had a similar experience with her two kids.

Mattress on the floor+tall baby gate = sleep.

I also pull a pull switch on the light so I could disable the wall switch.

My son is really tall for his age too, but I waited to move him to a (twin) bed. I figured the older he was, the more he could understand the "new bed rules". He did follow them too. He had a sticker chart and every week that he stayed in his bed he got a reward of his choosing--trip to the park, pancake breakfast, stuff like that. After a month of staying in bed, he got a big stuffed animal(of his choosing) that stayed in bed with him. That was the final reward.

If your child would respond to a sticker chart, how about doing one now while the crib is still holding her back some. Staying in bed,( whether it is a crib or not) is a boundary you have to teach. Then she will know the rules before moving to the toddler bed.