Floor beds

Following with interest. We have one but my two year old has never slept in it 🙈

What makes you think they'll self settle better in a floor bed? In my experience of transitioning my eldest from a cot to a toddler bed he slept worse for a while, not better. He was getting up and playing instead of sleeping.

oh really ? My hope is that she’ll eventually go and lay down herself. She randomly lays down in the floor downstairs but not in the cot . I have to rock her/ feed her to sleep and I’m hoping with the floor bed. She can just play and eventually learn that if she’s tired to go lay down. But then she’s never done this and doesn’t just sleep anywhere ..

So just wanting people’s views and advice . As when she also rolls in the cot she falls into the sides and bangs her head .

We got our floor bed for our son when he was about 20 months old. It's not helped him to self settle at all but it has helped me - i still breastfeed so I can feed him and roll away. And because I got a small double instead of losing loads of sleep each night like I was doing, I just end up sleeping in his bed after the first or second wake up. I am easily getting at least 2 / 3 hours more sleep each night but my son is a bad sleeper and always has been.

I am not sure it will really help them to self settle though. X

We put our son on the floor bed at 14 months it’s our old mattress so it’s king it’s big enough so I could lay with him. I breastfeed him to sleep and then he usually wakes up twice. My husband goes in and walk him and then put him back to sleep right now it’s showing them security that you’re there by 18 months, they should be able to self sleep
At least that’s what I read so hoping that’s the case I’ll let you know in 3 months 😂😅 he has xx a gate on his door and when he wakes he plays for almost a hour before calling for us (we watch him on the monitor) we did a Montessori type lay out so he can choose out fits and what not ( he love to choose out of 3 options 😆😂) not sure if this helps xx

Ment to say rock him lol 😂

We transitioned to a floor bed at 13 months. Much easier to transfer him and means I can watch tv with my partner until the first wake as once he’s asleep I can just creep out. Lowering him into the cot always woke him. He’s never got out of bed either when he wakes he just sits up and shouts mama x

I’m thinking about this too!