Just Wondering???????????

I moved my son into a toddler bed at 14 months old. He just flat out stopped sleeping in the baby bed. He was crying all night long, and was actually sleeping better on the floor and empty bed in the house during nap time. So I too down the baby bed and got a "big boy" bed and he started sleeping through the night instantly. He has never been one to get into things that he's not allowed to though. I had an aunt who needed the baby bed, didn't want to buy a "big girl bed" so she put the twin size mattress right on the floor. My little cousin LOVED it and took to it immediately. Different families move children at different times as needed, or what fits them. I know a family that kept their child in the baby bed until they realized she was climbing out of the bed, to go to the bathroom and then climbing back into the bed (using a near by dresser). Good luck!

I was one of the people who mentioned a toddler bed. My daughter has one of those at my parent's house. At home, I took off the side rail to her crib, put up a saftey rail, and she now sleeps in her daybed. She's 15 months old.

The reason for this, is at daycare she has been moved from the baby/infant room, to the transition/toddler room. In that room, the kids nap on cots rather than in cribs. She LOVES it. Now if you try to put her in a crib, she has fits.

I only suggested the toddler bed since you seemed so nervous about the older crib. I'm sure you could find a toddler bed for the in-laws at a yard sale, Craigslist or used store fairly inexpensively. I would think you'd rather "waste" the money and have a little piece of mind at your in-laws than the uncomfortableness over the arguments regarding a crib from the 80's.

You're choice, it was just a suggestion/option. You don't have to listen to it. I will say though, that this post makes people like me decide to just keep their mouths shut though. I'm not being nasty, just saying.

T.-
I completely agree with you about the toddler beds - I think they are the biggest waste of money. I have a 4 yr old daughter, and I moved her from the crib to a twin bed (with guard rails, of course) when she was 2 yrs old. I had the rails off w/in the year and she has been in the same bed ever since. The bottom line is, YOU'RE the mommy. Don't let anyone pressure you into using a toddler bed or antique bed or whatever, if you're not comfortable with it. Trust your gut - I don't think you can go wrong there. Good luck!
-A.

I moved my daughter straight to a big girl twin bed the day after her second birthday with a protable mesh guard rall. She did and still does get out of bed in the middle of the night and when going to bed but that's when the training begins. It's just a new set of lessons for her to learn. There have been nights where my husband has sat outside her door and every time she would get out of bed at bed time he's put her right back without speaking to her. Supernanny does know her stuff on this issue. And Yes, there have been nights of crying and fits. We do have a rule that if she is sick in the night we sleep with her or she sleeps with us and if she gets up after 5:00 am in the morning she can come cuddle until 7:30 am when we get up but if it is before that time she goes back to her own bed. It's not easy. Personally I think toddler bed are a waste of money unless you have a crib that transforms into one.

D.