Toddler Bed Question

My daughter is turning two in early October, but she started to attempt to climb her crib, we watched her on the monitor but it just scared us to death and since her crib is as low as it can go we decided to talk to her about a toddler bed. We bought her a gorgeous toddler sleigh bed and she has the same mattress, new pillows and her favorite blanket so she’d be as comfortable as possible.

However…. We introduced the bed slowly and she even watched us build it but she refuses to sleep in it. She used to sleep the whole night in her crib but now she wakes up constantly and sleeps on her floor. We’ve had the bed a week or so now and we were putting her back in it every time she fell asleep on the floor but we finally got tired and stopped.

Any tips or tricks on how to get a toddler to stay in bed?

Also, She has a night light/white noise machine and she gets 30 minutes of cartoons on a sleep timer before bed. She has a cup of milk at bed time and never fights us or tantrums. She just quietly sleeps on the floor or sits up with her blanket on the floor. She also has no door, we took it off and she has a tall baby gate there instead and our room is across hers so we can always peek in to make sure she’s okay. We also have two cameras in the room so we always hear/see what’s going on because we have a newborn son on the way this week and we will use them for him as well. Sorry for so much info but I’m desperate and curious if there is more we can do to make her happy in her new bed. There’s a pic of the bed included to help show it’s a great bed!

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The only thing I can think of is play with her in her bed , read to her in her bed and introduce naptimes, maybe after she falls asleep for naptimes to put her in her bed, awww poor baby is tired lol

I haven’t gone from crib to bed but I did go from co sleeping in our bed to now being in the crib.. it was hard at first but like the above comment ^ I started by letting her play in it and taking day naps in it. Now I give her the evening bottle, turn on white noise and she’s out within 10 minutes…it’s been going good so far so maybe try the daytime naps in the bed ?

What a gorgeous room !

Such a lovely room 🥰

I'd suggest that she's probably just trying out her new found freedom! I wouldn't worry about her sleeping on the floor whatsoever, she's probably just doing it because she can now, she'll likely start sleeping in her bed more and more as time goes on 😊

This is a nice room!
With my daughter, I got her so excited about the bed and told her I wish it were mine but I can’t fit in it and made it sound like it was the best thing in the world lol
We started by having her take her nap times in there when I started my 2nd trimester, then, she wanted to start sleeping there every night, specially bc of the freedom. We also got her a mattress topper so she would find it even more comfy. we needed the crib for baby so we really tried to make her love how it feels and looks

To me it sounds like you already did a lot to make it favorable to her. I think she’ll eventually get used to it and it doesn’t sound like something to worry about, but out of curiosity, what do you do when she wakes up at night to go sleep on the floor? We have a ring cam in her room, so any movement she makes we’d be able to see and get a notification right away, maybe you can catch her while at It and encourage her to go back to bed before she gets comfy on the floor.

Maybe put a rug down like one of those shell ones? She could just be in a mindset that “what if she falls off the bed or something. Or she could be just trying to make her own choice and decided that’s what she wants to do..” I wouldn’t worry about it, sounds like is a phase some toddlers do. Maybe set up a sleep bag or blankets and pillows for her on the floor and let her choose. Sleep is still sleep though so if she’s otherwise happy and well rested, I would just leave it x

I used to lay with my first kid until she fell asleep then sneak out, with my second I just snuck out as soon as I could as I didn’t want to make that a habit and now my first kid (who is seven) still wants me to sleep with her haha but I don’t mind but I did train the other two to sleep on their own ❤️

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