Can your child tip a dresser? Unlock windows? Pull down curtains? Think about timing. Avoid making the transition during other big changes like a new sibling coming home, starting school, toilet training, or moving. Do it a little at a time. If that goes well, make the full transition at night. Keep bedtime routines. Be prepared to have your patience tested. Kids will be kids. Be sure to base the timing of the switch on your child's readiness rather than on the need to free up the crib, however.
Many parents find out too late that it would have been easier to borrow or buy another crib rather than move their older child to a bed before he was ready. Some children adjust readily to this change, while others have a hard time with it. Every child is different. It's not unusual, though, for firstborn children to resist the transition. He may be very attached to his crib and all of his associations with it.
The move to sleeping in a bed is just one of many changes at this stage in a toddler's life — it may coincide with toilet-training, starting preschool and other pressures to "grow up.
Later-born children often have an easier time making the switch to a bed because they want to be just like their older brother or sister. They're eager to move from the crib, which is "for babies," into a "big-kid bed.
To ease the transition, put your toddler's new bed in the same place his crib used to be. If you're using a twin bed, you may not want to make an immediate switch to grown-up sheets and blankets that are tucked in.
Your child may find it soothing to continue to sleep with his old crib blanket, even if it's too small. Don't forget to put up a guardrail to prevent your newly liberated toddler from falling out of bed. Get your toddler excited about having a "big-kid bed" by taking him with you to pick it out, if you're buying it new, or by emphasizing its previous owner if that person is someone your child knows. For example: "This was your cousin't bed, and now it's yours!
You're almost as big as him now! The research team found that rates of crib-sleeping decreased steadily with age, with 63 percent of toddlers sleeping in a crib from ages 18 to 24 months, as compared to 34 percent still in a crib at 24 to 30 months and 13 percent from 30 to 36 months. Crib sleeping was associated with going to bed earlier, falling asleep sooner, waking up less often during the night, sleeping for longer stretches during the night and resisting less at bedtime.
In future studies, Williamson and the research team will use the app to investigate how parents start the crib-to-bed transition and what motivates them. Linger for a while. Don't just drop and dash — give your baby a chance to settle down and get comfy while you're still in the room.
One tactic to try is the chair method of sleep training. Have a seat or sit on the floor next to the crib as she starts to doze, and then move a little farther away the next night — and the night after that — until you're out the door and she's happy on her own.
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