My 17 month old recently went into her toddler bed (it was given to us). She has really took well to the change. However, she is waking up several times in the middle of the night and crying. We have a child gate up in the door way (we are on the upstairs level) and we pull the door shut, but leave it cracked. She was doing this before we transitioned to a toddler bed, but most of the time she would sleep thru the night. She has only been in her bed for a week, so maybe this is just still getting used to it. I am not sure. Can anyone let me know if this happened to them and what did you do? Any advise welcome!
Thank you,
does she use a binky, bottle, or sippy to go to bed?? if she does this may be the problem. if not you may just need to put on a soothing sound machine, some kind of night light(disco ball--chasing christmas lights). if she is anything like my kids and kicks off the covers and freezes all night even in the hot summer. so they would wake and need to re cover. good luck and god bless
My daughter did the same thing when she moved from the crib to the toddler bed. I think it is a "safety" thing. She was fine in the crib because she couldn't get out. She has fallen out of the bed (not that it is far from the ground), but when she wakes up on the floor - it's scary because that's not where she was supposed to be. It is startling to wake up somewhere different - even if it is just the floor. We now have an open door policy where her bedroom door is left open, and so is ours. Should she wake up scared, she is not stuck in her rom alone to freak out until you get there. She is able to walk to our room. Sometimes I hear her and she just walks to our room, looks around, adn then goes back to her room. Sometimes she wants to stay in and will bring her pillow and blanket with her and climb up onto the chase lounger and go right back to sleep there. You changed it up, and now she just wants to feel safe and know you are there.
You could try making a spot for her in your room.
does she have all her teeth? My daughter is doing this and it is either nightmares (she wakes up all sweaty) or her teeth. Does she go down nicely? Just go in and comfort her and tell her that you will see her in the morning and that it is time for bed. Lay her down stroke her hair or tickle her back for a little bit to let her know its okay. I think its just a bad sleep stage and isn't really related to her bed if she is going down good and took to it nicely.
My daughter is 3 and was still waking up crying up until a few weeks ago. What did we do different? We took away her cup. Sometimes we were giving her soy milk and sometimes water...she would wake up crying for one or the other and we would just give in because we were tired. Finally...we told her "no" because she was going to ruin her teeth(with the soy milk). We traded her cup for a new blankie(since she has a thing for blankies). She still uses a binkie but we are ok with that because it is only at night and it stays in her bed when she wakes up. Now that she's not drinking at night she's learned to sleep without waking up possibly "hungry" and needing to fill her tummy. Since I know that she will probably wake up crying at around 12am or 1am, I will go in there when she is still sleeping, change her pull up if she's wet, sit her up and give her a sip of water(I don't leave her cup anywhere in her room) and lay her back down. That way she's not waking up thirsty, she's dry, and she hasn't had enough water to make her wet again, so she sleeps until about 8:30a.m. As long as I do all of that, I don't have a crying kiddo. She used to wake up crying 6-8 times a night and no one really slept. Someone else asked about cups and things so I thought I would mention that we found it to be the cause of our daughter's night time crying! Good luck to you!!!
give it some time as she is still very young. Put the bed in a place to give her security. Put it up in the corner away from a window. Put a chair or something she would not pull down on her close to her end of the bed and make a litle nest. Mine, I moved at this age as I needed the crib for the baby and had the same issue. But once we figured out how to make a little nest out of the area, she felt secure and slept. So talk with her and have fun on how to do that. She will know.
