Toddler bed

My husband wants to transition our newly 2 year old to a toddler bed. I'm extremely worried about him staying in his bed and not roaming the house in the morning. My husband thinks if we just leave his door open he'll run to our room in the mornings but I think that will only last short term.

He has never tried escaping his crib. My husband wants to be proactive before he tried and gets hurt. I told him he's going to hurt himself roaming the house while we are asleep!

What would you do?

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We transitioned at 16-17months

Is it an option to put a baby gate at like the end of the hallway that stop him from roaming all over...

And depending on how early I think would determine how playful he will be...

Ours wakes up opens his door closes his door behind him and goes to the bean bag in the living room and goes back to sleep for about another hour

We transitioned around 18 months(we moved and she refused to go back into the crib, but she was pretty close to climbing out at that point).

I was worried about her roaming the house as well, so I would close her in her room which worked until she figured out how to open doors.

Now she has the childproof door handle cover things on the door on the inside of her room.

If/when she gets up in the night, I hear/see her on the monitor and go to her rather than her coming and looking for me

Yeah we do the same as above. We just have our monitor still so the sound is on and when he gets up I go grab him. I personally would absolutely not let a 2 year old roam the house unattended. That’s just asking for trouble. Even when you think everything is baby proofed kids always seem to find something to get into.

I honestly transitioned both children at a year old they would either wake up and come crawl into my bed if it was still super early or play in their room until one of us woke up but I also had a baby gate up keeping them from going into the living room and kitchen area

We did it at 22 months but in our room we put the bed

Until we put a camera in the toddlers room!

We transitioned at 19 months due to climbing and I couldn't lift him well while being pregnant (he's super heavy). He was honestly just fine.
We also baby proofed his room, and put a child lock on his doorknob so we can go get him in the morning. His room is totally safe but we didn't want him getting out and harassing the cat or turning on the TV, etc.
But I will say, if you're not cool with it then maybe don't. It is a big transition for some kids

We have the gate at the hallway so he can run to the bathroom, and our room

in our community

Hour night wakes and 5am get up

Can anyone shed some light as to why on earth my child doesn’t want to sleep??? My eyeballs are bleeding!!

Never been a good sleeper, but the problems always changing. He’s nearly 9 months old.

Beginning of the month he dropped to 2 naps. We could put him to bed at 7pm and he’d get up for the day at 6am, with multiple wake ups every 2/3 hours.

Now we put him down at 7pm, he can do a good 4/5 hour stretch, but come 1/2am he’s up every hour then getting up for the day at 5am. This then completely messes up the day because I can’t keep him awake long enough to even get to 7pm, let alone later.

He has 2 naps, roughly about 1hr10 each but it changed based on when he wakes and trying to get him to a reasonable bed time.

What could be the reason for this? 6am is fine, but 5am is not 😩😩

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Has anyone donated / sold their supply, if so where do you recommend for this?

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In the uk there is an outbreak of meningitis, in a specific area mainly. My BD has family from that area and decided to go and meet up with them, I said if he does then he cannot have contact with the kids for 7-10 days after incase he picks anything up. Am I being over dramatic? I reallyyy don’t want my young kids getting anything serious

I think its fair

Me and my partner agreed to sleep in 1 day of the weekend.
He doesn't find it fair to look after both kids (my 4 year old isnt his) while i sleep so he looks after the baby while i sleep and my toddlers at his dads and ill look after both the next day.
Straightaway it was pretty unfair as i let him sleep in until he wakes up 10-12
He wakes me up when baby starts fussing because he wants milk (doesnt need it)
I cant pump as i dont supply enough.
So i get woken at 9/9:30 to feed baby then i get him sleep then theres no point sleeping in as my toddlers being dropped off.
I also find it unfair that i get both kids to sleep most night, i get my toddler to sleep everyday hes home (4/5days) and i get my baby to sleep most nights with the exception of maybe twice a month as his dad struggless then about 95% of his thru the day naps.
I have also been unwell for a few months (tumor scare) and am waiting 18 weeks to see a specialist so im obviously petrified for that, so unbelievably tired and alot of aches and pains, specifically these pounding headaches ive been having.
After i had been up til 11:30 getting both kids to sleep lastnight and my partner falling asleep at 10 then him ignoring the baby cries all morning until my toddler woke up im fed up slammed to door and rold him not to expect to sleep in unless he gets the baby to sleep the night b4.
I keep having issues with him not feeling the wet from baby being sick or weeing himself or being able to smell it do about 98% of the time hes given to me i have to clean him up n change him.
Including at night, we agreed my partner would change nappies (1 a night at 5am) while i feed (2,4,5,6:30) but every night when i get him hes pissed through and my partner gets annoyed when i wake him up n moan about it.
Then the morning after hes annoyed at how much washing there is (thats his job) and moans about how often i change myself (baby constantly shits thru and sicks on me) and baby
Honestly im just so tired all the time

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Don’t get me wrong, I tried zipper ones it’s easy to zip in and out when putting it on the first time and taking it out, but I find it difficult when changing diapers especially when baby is asleep.

I prefer those kimono style buttons where it’s easy to button or too down button with crotch snaps.

Is everyone thinking the same or different? Lol

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