Age of putting child into a big bed?

It depends on the kid - Seb is probably ready for a big bed, he's been able to climb out of his cot since 18 months, so it's a bit useless. He can climb back in too though, so it's not a huge race to get him into a big bed - will probably be there by the end of this week though.

Other kids will be fine in a cot up till 2 1/2... I think 2 is about the average.

Alan went in to one about 20 month's. and Mikey went into one a 16 month's. think it really depend's on hte child. Alan was not ready earlier but Mikey was.

Was wondering the same thing, no 2 due when Leah is 22 months so will probably try for her birthday.

Paris we moved into her own bed at 11mths, provided... it was a double bed, we short-sheeted the bed, and she couldn't roll over (one of the good things about this was no getting out of bed) We put her into a big bed before she could get out, she didn't really try too much and never worried about it.

Ayja, well, she's coming up 3 and we've just taken the side off her convertible cot again after a 5 mths stint with it back on after she proved she was sooo not ready for a big girls bed. she is now on a 100 night star chart in the aim of her getting an actual big girls bed. She has to stay in bed and not get out at all to get a sticker the next day (we should be up to about day 40 by now, but she's just hit the 25 sticker mark.. not toooo bad for her), every once in a while we remind her and show her the picture of the bed and the duvet set again and she's reminded. darn it i dunno what we'll do once she gets the bed!   (for those wondering, we were planning to buy a new bed anyway, but it's fairly $$ so thought that really she needed to earn it, and what better way....)

anyway, if you do end up needing to leave newbie in a basinette for longer, use your portacot with the basinette piece (if you don't have one already, invest in one they're pretty cheap and soo worth it) because the basinette piece is much roomier, my girls stayed in them till about 5 mths old, you only need to worry once they start to 1 - get too heavy like paris did, or 2, learn to roll over and try to climb out - like ayja did.

Edited by mum2paris

Maya was 20-odd months, we'd spent 2 months travelling so she hadn't been in her own cot for ages and she seemed ready, we had no major dramas. I did use a rail to sto her falling out.

Gremlins are nowhere near ready, they'll be in cots till they're 5 if I have my way They have cots that convert to beds tho so we have to buy a new cot for baby anyway so that's not an issue for us, altho even if it was I don't think I'd be rushing them out of their cots coz I kinda like that they are semi-contained.

I know, I am insane, I don't know WHAT I was thinking, except that like you, fertility issues with the gremlins fooled us into a false sense of security and whoopsy!

Maya wrote: I know, I am insane, I don't know WHAT I was thinking, except that like you, fertility issues with the gremlins fooled us into a false sense of security and whoopsy!

The gremlins are in wooden cots right? They'll learn how to climb out of them, surely you can't expect otherwise with their track record! And unlike Seb with his portacot, they won't be able to get back in

LOL at Andies comment. Tristen is being so cheeky i think i may need a lidded cot for him. Today when I told him off (yet again i mite add with a little hand smack) for touching the Cds he turns round to me and says oooooooohh. - ratbag

Yep im with you about the fasle secuirty issues with fertility we were prepared to go another 2 years .... but obviously not. I did another preg test today just to be sure (may have been a faulty one  ) but the two lines came up funny though DH read the back of the box to make sure that two lines meant pregnant not the other way round

We have a narrow bassinette so moved all our girls into the cot pretty early. Our cot is not convertible.

Hannah, we moved her into the bed at 17mos so she had two months to settle and wouldn't feel 'expelled' from her cot.

Briona was climbing the bars at 15mos so I high-tailed her outta there. She took to a bed like ducks to water, I think probably because she was 'being like Hannah'.

Kryssi was moved out at 14mos. She wasn't trying to climb out but she's too tall (over 80cm) and I didn't want her to topple out (like the bath last night! )

Now we have no baby in the cot...

OMG maya thats us exactly DH was saying when did we ??? I said well once is enuf.....