Big bed, big disaster
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Topic: Big bed, big disaster
Posted By: FionaS
Subject: Big bed, big disaster
Date Posted: 03 August 2008 at 9:04pm
After hearing all your lovely stories about your kids moving to big beds we decided to give it a go. We set up the bed and Elle was very excited and climbed in. Then came bed time and she was soooooooooooooooo upset. Very rarely seen her that upset. I just went on and on and we couldn't get her near the bed. She was too beside herself so we've now shifted her draws into our room (charming) so we can fit the bed and the cot in her room.
I don't think she knows that beds are for sleep....I think she thinks they are just for jumping on. Everytime I've tried taking her in bed with us she has just ended up crying and refusing to lie down. ------------- Mummy to Gabrielle and Ashley |
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Posted By: Kels
Date Posted: 03 August 2008 at 9:13pm
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Awww hun sorry to hear it didnt work out too well for Elle. Maybe it will just take some time for her to be comfortable with the idea. I remember a friend of mine ringing me crying in the middle of the night while her Dh was putting up their little girls cot as she was beside herself, I will never forget it. All I could hear was a mother frantic and toddler wailing Best of luck hun and I hope she warms to the big bed soon!! ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
Busy mum to Miss 15yrs, Miss 10yrs and Master 4yrs |
Posted By: KH25
Date Posted: 03 August 2008 at 9:20pm
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Is she normally quite sensitive about change? If so then I personally would leave both in the room, let her get used to the bed in there and let her play on it, then hopefully one day she will ask to sleep there :) ------------- Kelly, mum to DD, 19Jun06 (26wks 1lb15oz) DS1, 24Oct10 (32wks 4lb11oz) and DS2, 31Dec11 (32wks, 4lb11) http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: FionaS
Date Posted: 03 August 2008 at 9:23pm
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Nope, I would say she is good with change. We can mix things up in terms of routine/outings/sleeping in different places in her portacot etc and she is perfectly settled. She has never been willing to sleep with me and seldom slept in her pushchair or the car but if we take the portacot she'll settle anywhere with no fuss. ------------- Mummy to Gabrielle and Ashley |
Posted By: Bombshell
Date Posted: 03 August 2008 at 9:34pm
isnt she in DC some days tho? maybe get them to start using the beds there instead of the cot....i know ours have those army style fold outs...im hoping that will help when we ease ella into a bed...or she demands a bed cause she has one at DC! 
I think from all my nanny experiences and what ive read transition to a bed needs to be well handled and a HUGE deal...eg shop for linens she wants, eg Hi5 or ugh probably Barney in our case! then make it a wonderful experience for her to become a BIG girl....I wonder if it was all too quick for her and she didnt get how major this change is for her in a good way?
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Posted By: FionaS
Date Posted: 03 August 2008 at 9:40pm
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No BS she doesn't go to daycare at all. She goes with her Nana and Poppa twice a week and to a friends for a couple of hours on a Wed (my friend is a prof. nanny with 2 kids of her own + she looks after a few others in her home) .
We've been building up to it for ages and yeap, she helped pick everything out. She was hugely exicted and wanted to get in the bed etc, just didn't want to sleep there. She was very very tired tonight though. Her cot is kinda like her safe-haven though, she loves going to bed and never cries at sleeptime. ------------- Mummy to Gabrielle and Ashley |
Posted By: Mazzy
Date Posted: 03 August 2008 at 10:02pm
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Don't worry too much Fiona, we thought we had it sorted with DD1 when she went fine into her 'big bed' the first night and then it was a nightmare for a week after that, she just wouldn't settle.
In the end we put up her portacot next to the big bed and slept her in there for a good month or so, getting her used to the bed but still in a place she felt comfortable. In the end it took us about two months to transition her into it, but we never put the other cot back up, just the portacot as by that time I was pregnant and we wanted to have a good long break for her so she didn't get too possesive about the cot when it went to the new baby. Good luck! ------------- Mum to two gorgeous girls! |