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Cot or floor bed?

I’m not sure whether to change my 16 month old from a cot to a floor bed. She sleeps in her own room. I still bf & she wakes 1-2 times a night. I give her a quick feed & she’s back to sleep. I think it’s more of a comfort thing. She’s not walking yet. She pulls herself up on things. She doesn’t stand up in her cot. She’s on the smaller side. I’m just after options & how you went about the transfer, if you have?

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Following along as I am wondering too. My daughter is 16months tomorrow and still wakes 1-2 times in the night for a feed also and then goes straight back to sleep. She is walking and standing up in her cot and whenever she sleeps in our bed she sleeps so much better, I’ve just bought her a floor bed but am wondering when the best time would be to transfer also.

We have the floor bed in the box ready! Just debating when to do it. I’m probably over thinking things. I just don’t want to put her in the bed too early & she sleeps worse 😒

@Bec same as us, we have it ready to go! Haha me too, thinking if we set it up I’m definitely going to put a baby gate on her bedroom door so she can’t come out

We transitioned to the floor bed 1 month ago. I was very anxious at first and flat out refused to let her use a blanket, just a sleep suit she could still get around in. The poor thing fell out of bed once, but thankfully, she hasn't since. We also had one difficult night where she kept getting up and coming to her door. The things I think helped was, we started with her day nap on the weekend so we had time before she went back to daycare, it was the same position/direction as her cot, daycare was also transitioning out of the nursery to the toddler room here, she takes her straw cup water bottle to bed (for comfort), she also helped me put apart the cot 😊. I'm sorry I don't have any advice for how the BF wake ups would go...in theory it would be the same right? But it doesn't always work that way 😕