We just moved Julia (she turned 2 in January) to a toddler bed (out of necessity - I'd rather have her in her crib but she can climb out and it's not safe) a week ago. My perfect sleeper has gone from sleeping 13 hours a day to sleeping EIGHT hours out of the day. At least once if not twice a night she gets up, turns on her bedroom light, stands at her door and either cries or yells "Hi, Mama!!" until I wake up. I cannot go to her room to get her or she freaks out when I try to leave, so poor DH has to do it.

I am at a loss (and I'm getting really cranky from interrupted sleep)...when you moved your toddler to a big boy/girl bed, how did you get them to stay in it? I am getting pretty close to moving EVERYTHING out of her room and leaving nothing but the bed! :tearhair:

I'm honestly no help on this one because Caroline has been in a bed since last summer and it has only lately started occurring to her that she can get out (thankfully she's not brave enough to do it in the dark, so she only gets herself up and comes downstairs after her nap - I have no problem with that). I guess it depends on how well she can be reasoned with. :dunno: If you think she'd "get it" if you told her DO NOT GET UP if it is dark - if you need Mommy just call me, but do not get up.

I don't have an answer either. Sorry. Both Aidan and Colin have always willingly just gotten out of bed and trudged into our room at night or to the gated top of the stairs in the day. It drives me mad too. Colin comes in our room nearly every night between 3am-4am right now. We just go and put him back into bed. But I can't find a solution on how to keep him in there, short of tying him to the bed. ;) (Uh, to be clear, I'd never do that. :crazy: )

No suggestions, either.
It took Aidan a long time to get used to sleeping in a regular bed. He'd come to our room at night and crawl in bed with us and for the longest time, we just let him. Only recently did I start carrying him back to his bed (he's 3) and he'll stay there till morning when, if he wakes, he'll come back up to our bed.

I am hoping my twins never learn how to crawl out of their cribs. If they do, they are getting crib tents till they hit the crib weight limits :lol:

No suggestions, either.
It took Aidan a long time to get used to sleeping in a regular bed. He'd come to our room at night and crawl in bed with us and for the longest time, we just let him. Only recently did I start carrying him back to his bed (he's 3) and he'll stay there till morning when, if he wakes, he'll come back up to our bed.

We weren't good about putting Aidan back in either...Aidan still goes through periods where he comes into bed with us, and is so quiet climbing in we hardly know he's there til we wake up. Although I will say it's been months now since he's done that so maybe the phase is over? :dunno: Now he just comes in around 6am or 7am and goes back to sleep. So still in our bed at some point, but that's not bad at all...a little cuddle time, really. :heart:

Probably because of Aidan, we are much better at putting Colin back in nearly immediately after he comes into our room. And usually once we put him back once, he's back in there for the night.

No suggestions, either.
I am hoping my twins never learn how to crawl out of their cribs. If they do, they are getting crib tents till they hit the crib weight limits :lol:
After what we went through with Aidan (he had a bad transition period going from crib to bed but we had no choice since he was climbing from the crib at 18 months, and had already had a broken leg ;) ), I had NO desire to get Colin into a bed until he climbed out...but then about 6 or 8 weeks ago was rejecting sleep, he just hated the crib. So it was no sleep for any of us b/c he was screaming or moving him to the bed where he mostly slept well, just got up here and there. Not a fun choice either way. He STILL can't climb out of the crib, actually...so I have the benefit of using it as a punishment spot. :crazy:

I guess I'm lucky; we switched Jada & Justin into toddler beds and they just stayed in their all night and still do. When they wake up in the morning they will just call for one of us to come get them and not until we open the door will they get out of their bed.

I think the best thing to do is keep consistently putting her back in bed and eventually she'll get the hint. It only took Sean a couple weeks to get the point, and he went back to sleeping his regular 10 hours a night.