patton@houxz.UUCP (M.PATTON) (01/17/85)
Our daughter will be two in early February and we are expecting
our second child at the end of May. Our 2-year-old is still in
a crib, has not attempted to climb out, and seems content there.
We have not tried putting her in a regular bed at all, except
once or twice in our bed in the early morning.
My question is, how and when should we move her to a bed? We'd like
her to be in a bed before the baby comes, so she doesn't feel that the
baby is taking her bed. We won't use her crib for the baby for
at least 3 months, so we have a little extra time.
Rick Omanson for
Sue Omanson
houxz!patton
AT&T Bell Labs at Holmdel, NJ
Home: 212-530-8897
canopus@amdahl.UUCP (Flaming Asteroid) (01/18/85)
Rick & Sue Omanson: > Our daughter will be two in early February and we are expecting > our second child at the end of May. Our 2-year-old is still in > a crib, has not attempted to climb out, and seems content there. > > My question is, how and when should we move her to a bed? We'd like > her to be in a bed before the baby comes, so she doesn't feel that the > baby is taking her bed. We won't use her crib for the baby for > at least 3 months, so we have a little extra time. > Me: We were in a similar situation a few years ago: our second was born when our first was two. Our solution (recommended by pediatrician) was to put the new bed in the room with the crib, let Lisa take her daytime nap in the bed, then sleep at night in the crib [for a few days]. In less than a week she was sleeping at night in the bed. She could still see her crib in the room; I guess that made her feel secure. After a few more days, we moved the crib out. She didn't get upset. This whole process only took about 10 days. -- Frank Dibbell (408-746-6493) {whatever}!amdahl!canopus [R.A. 6h 22m 30s Dec. -52d 36m] [Generic disclaimer.....]
dwl10@amdahl.UUCP (Dave Lowrey) (01/18/85)
> Our daughter will be two in early February and we are expecting > our second child at the end of May. Our 2-year-old is still in > a crib, has not attempted to climb out, and seems content there. > > My question is, how and when should we move her to a bed? Our son started climbing out of his crib at 1 1/2, so to cut down on the black eyes and the threat of being arrested for child abuse, we moved him to a "real" bed. No problems were encountered. We bought a plastic slip cover for the mattres (for obvious reasons!). We also got a bed rail from Toys-(backward)R-Us. We removed the crib from his room. He does climb out alot of nites to sleep with us, but no "crib withdrawl" or anything like that was discovered. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Dave Lowrey "GORT...Klatu borada niktow" ...!{nsc,sun,hplabs,ihnp4}!amdahl!dwl10 [ The opinions expressed <may> be those of the author and not necessarily those of his most eminent employer. ]