Hi,
My 22 month old son started climbing out of the crib and we could not get him to stay in it!! Even if he would fall asleep on us he would wake up the second we would put him back and flip out. He always liked his crib, now he seemed afraid of it
We changed the crib over to the toddler bed, and he still resists going in it, but will eventually fall asleep in it. We are finding him asleep on the floor though. It seems he gets up in the middle of the night and never makes it back to the bed!
I am sure others have dealt with this, but how do i keep him in the bed and not the floor!!! Also, we cannot for the life of us get him to nap now!!!! We have to keep him in his room and all he does is play!!
I am not ready to give that up so i need some help there!!
I have known a couple of families that chose to put the mattress on the floor alone, no bed and found it successful for years.
My first son stopped napping at the same age. I think if your son sleeps on the floor it is fine as long as he is warm. Sometimes mine ends up under his bed! One day he will sleep in his bed and it will all work out. My first one fought so much it took hours for him to fall asleep and I was going crazy. Be thankful he does go to sleep, before you know it he will want a big boy bed!
for the naps during the day.. I would take car rides. She would just fall asleep right away. thank Goodness there was dunkin donuts drive thru ahahahahah
But, if u want your child in bed without problem.. I would skip the naps and just do the fun activities during day..because he or she will be so exhausted to argue w/ u when it hits 7pm library programs, dance around, have cousins over or playdates. with the transition.. My husband and i bought bed and just placed it next to me. So, the kid is in our room but, not in our bed. It worked.. Then a few weeks later.. Just moved bed in room but,placed it near the corner of the entrance of the door so she knew we were right there with door open and gate up. so she wouldn'g get out and i would have another mattress next to the bed just in case she got out of fell out.. Then we just
started closing the door put monitor on.. so we could always see what she was doing if she was falling out of bed etc. or on her way out of her bed.. so, We just moved bed further away from us and the door. So, finally bed next to wall w/ still another mattress on the floor so i could sit there. or if she fell out.. I put on a night light and the night lite has a sound like white noise. so, I give a bath, read a book, get sippy half of milk or water sit next to bed on the extra mattress turn off lights and keep night light on.. and sing ABC's quietly and rub back.. Then i escape out of room.. It WORKS.. Good Luck.. Barb G.
Hi There,
My 22 month old just started climbing out of his crib at nap time too... So, I bought a large sleep sack, and put him in that when he sleeps, now he can't get his legs up and over the bar. (I put it on backwards so he can't unzip it!) I knew he still needed naps, and wasn't ready to put him in the big boy bed yet... and this worked. (he was mad the first few days, but gave up and went to sleep and is back on a nap schedule now). It is too late for that now, since he is in a bed already. However, we transitioned my older daughter to her bed at 25 mos. (before my son was born). She also got out of bed during nap time to play. She still needed naps, so I started by reading her a lot of books, then lying with her in bed until she fell asleep (I ignored her, no talking- just put her back in bed if she got out). The next day, I sat on the floor by her bed until she fell asleep (again, ignoring her if she talked). I gradually moved myself further away until I was outside her door with the door open so she could see me, then gradually until the door was closed and I could leave before she was asleep. The whole process took about 10 days (I would just read my book while I sat there- usually on 10-15 minutes). This process worked, and she continued to take naps pretty consistantly for another 9 mos. I also found that if she was really active in the morning she wouldn't be as reistant to napping... and I read her quite a few books so she would relax at naptime. If you have the time, it is well worth it to try to keep your kid napping!
YOU may not be ready for him to give up napping but it sounds like he is. As long as he is playing quietly in his room during his usual nap time, just make it "downtime" for him. My oldest stopped napping at 13 months whereas my middle napped until about 3 and my youngest is still napping at 2 1/2.
As for the floor, if that's where he wants to be, so be it. Perhaps he doesn't like the toddler bed/mattress. Each of our children were out of their cribs by 18 months. We got twin mattresses and put the mattress on the floor until the kids got older. They slept so much better!!
Try purchasing his favorite character bed linens and getting a different mattress.
