I wanted to see how long fellow mamas out there kept your little ones in the crib? I have friends whose kids are almost 3 and are still sleeping in the crib and some got their kids out of the crib at 2 years old. Does it depend on when they start wanting to crawl out or actually crawled out of the crib? We are trying for baby #2 soon and would be nice if we don't have to get another crib for our newborn but I am not sure if it's too soon to let an almost two year old sleep in a big boy's bed(my son is almost 1 now and will be almost 2 by the time our new baby arrives if all goes well as planned). We have a convertible crib which can be converted into a toddler bed but that means we still have to get another crib for the new baby.
Not sure what I should do. I am not pregnant yet but will try soon so by the time our new baby is born if all goes well as planned my baby boy will be almost 2.
Thanks.
Thanks for all the responses. My son does pull up on the crib rail and would push it and jump up and down but have not try to climb out of it yet but we are keeping a close eye on him and see if he will do it soon. We try to tire him out before bed so he won't pull up on the rail too much.
We won't know what will happen by the time we really will have the baby but I guess alot can change in 9 months, I would love to keep him in his crib as long as I can if it wasn't for our plan to have a second child. We did have a bassinet but I regret to say that we got rid of it because when our son was a newborn he hated the bassinet since day one so we put him right in the crib when he was 2 months old. Instead of sleeping in the bassinet he slept in the stroller the first month of his life.
I am not sure if the new baby will have against bassinet but we don't want to invest in another one if he/she won't like it.
My son was in his crib until 3 years old. He LOVED his crib and slept GREAT in it.
The reason we stopped having him in his crib was, one day he simply said he was done with the crib and wanted to be in a bed.
So then he was in a bed.
He was fine!
good luck,
Susan
My son started climbing out around 18 months so he got his own bed at 2. It took about a week or two for him to adjust. I have friends that kept their children in the crib till about 3. I say get them a bed if they start climbing out or look cramped in the crib. I read somewhere that if they reach 36" they're too tall for the crib.
KEEP YOUR CHILD AS LONG AS YOU CAN IN THE CRIB~ My son LOVED his crib and stayed in it until 3.5 :0( Sad day for me, lol.... As long as your child isn't trying to climb out and getting hurt. I had a couple moms give me a hard time because my son was still in his crib but EVERYONE else said they would of loved for there child to stay in and were actually jealous.. By the time my son did go into a big boy bed it was SOOOO much easier explaining to him why he needed to stay in the bed.
With that being said, if you get pregnant soon you dont want to go out and buy another crib. (unless you have a friend to lend you one)...In that case you might went to put them in a bed but still wait until your about 6 months along to do that..
Good luck!
For me the answer to your question was "as long as possible." My son was 2 1/2 when we moved him out of his crib. I would have left him there until kindergarten, but he climbed out, so we moved him out. My feeling is that if you have a kid who is sleeping well in a crib, don't mess with it.
By the way, when your new baby is born, do you anticipate him/her sleeping in the crib right away, or do you have a bassinet for the first few weeks/months? My son slept in a bassinet in our room for the first 3 or 4 months. I ask because it may alter your timeline for when you actually need the crib.
We moved our son from crib to full sized bed at 20 months. We moved him because we got a bedroom set for free from a family member and I was 2 months pregnant and knew the baby would be needing his crib in the next 7 months anyways so that is how we decided. My plan with the second is to keep her in the crib until she starts to climb out of it. We had no problems moving him into the bed. A friend of mine moved her daughter into a twin sized bed at 14 months when she became pregnant with her second and that worked out well for them too.
I put all three of mine in a toddler bed at 18 months. I put a gate at the door to keep them in the room instead of wandering around at night or early morning and getting into things. My main reason for doing so was because of a back injury that was giving me fits and putting them in a toddler bed relieved me of having to pick them up to put in the bed every time. My second reason was that my 2 boys were in the 97th percentile in height and very close to the 97th percentile in weight as well. I was afraid they would attempt to climb out and hurt themselves. My daughter, I just did it because I had did it with the boys. My boys preferred to sleep in the floor at the gate for a while and I would just put them in the bed after they fell asleep.
My son is 15 months and figured out how to climb out of his crib at 12 months. We put him in his own bed at 13 months and he does great!!
until they tried to clim out or by 2.5 or 3
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All in all it is what works for you and your little one. As long as they are safe.
The best advice I ever heard (and saw it too late for me!) was keep them in til they're 3 or start climbing out. It will open a whole new can of worms once they discover they are "free" and can just get up & out at any time. I have O. child but imagine your life with a newborn would be WAAAAAY easier if your older O. is still in a crib when the new O. arrives. You can always borrow a crib, since it won't be that long that you'll have dueling cribs.
We literally just went through this. The initial plan was to move DS (26mos) to his big boy bedroom. We had a twin bed, new decorations, all of it. And after months of trying (we started trying to move him at 18mos), he just wasn't ready.
So, we finally decided to keep DS in his crib and just buy used nursery furniture for our newborn.
Then, DS started crawling out of his crib. Like, a month later. Constantly. So in the end, we wound up converting his crib to a toddler bed. It's been 2 weeks now, and I think we're through the rough part (a few VERY long and unpleasant nights of DS not staying in bed, not wanting to be alone, etc...). The newborn is coming on Friday (induction), so we'll see how that goes!
In the end, I think, keep the kids in the crib as LONG as you can. I would've kept DS in his until he was 5! He just didn't give us a choice, in the end.
We move our daughter to her day bed when she started claiming out of her crib, we already had the crib to its lowest so it wasn't anything to do after that.
She was 18 months, and the first week was very bussy for us because then she just keep getting out of her room, but after that she stays (almost always).
The first couple months we put a gate right outside her door at night so she wouldn't be walking around in the middle of the night.
We haven't use it in a couple months now and she comes to our bed around 6am, takes her baba and go back to sleep with us until we wake up, so cute.
I was wondering the same actually.
My son just turned two and still sleeps in his crib. Thankfully though he has never tried to climb out yet.
I'm also 37wks prego with my 2nd. And to be honest I went and bought a new crib. I decided that I wasn't going to put my son in a big boy bed yet. That way I won't have to worry bout him always getting out in the middle of the night when I'm trying to take care of a newborn.
I think it depends on the kid.
My daughter is 3 and has not figured climbing out yet so she is staying in.
Its a whole new ball game once they are in their little beds.
S
i would get him out soon. otherwise he will not want to leave his bed.. my daughter climed out at 9 mo. old.. we put the side down.. so she wouldn't get hurt and she got her big girl bed at 2.. my son was about 1 1/2 when he got his big boy bed.. good luck
Our pediatrician's advice: keep them in there until it's no longer safe (i.e. they're trying to climb out).
Our daughter was 2 in March, and she still sleeps in her crib and has NO problems with it. So, for now, she's staying there.
Our kids are 21 months apart. We moved our son WAY too early, and we've been paying the price ever since. Our daughter slept in our room in the pack-n-play, and we didn't need the crib as early as we thought we would.
I can completely relate to your post. My daughter had just turned two when my son was born and we faced this same delima. We too had the convertible crib and had specifically bought that so as not to have a toddler bed. We ended up buying a toddler bed anyway for my then 2yr old daughter to transition to. It worked great but it did not last long she grew quickly and outgrew the bed. If I had it to do again I would have just moved her to a regular bed to begin with. The crib mattress and the toddler bed mattress are the same size so there really is no difference. So if your choice is another crib or a regular bed I say go with the regular bed. When my son was almost 2yrs old we converted the crib to the toddler bed, because he was constantly climbing out and I was afraid he would get hurt. So to answer your question, I moved my kids out when my youngest started climbing out and my oldest to make room for baby. For our family the kids seemed to need more room to stretch while sleeping out as a growing two year old.
Well, when they started crawling out, I got them a big boy bed.............If you want to try it now, I don't see why not.....
Let him help you tho.......maybe pick out sheets, etc.....and talk to him....ask him if he thinks he would like a big boy bed since he is getting so big........if he says yes, then go for it..........just make sure his room has nothing that can fall on him, or tip over......with climbing......you might even put some glow in the dark shapes on his walls and ceiling to make it a different look....more like a big boys room.....or let him pick out some nice cheap decor for his "new" big boy room........
It will be easier now to get him switched over than when you are very pregnant and trying to get him to switch over if he isn't exactly keen on the idea........
Good Luck and take care....
