Montessori style floor bed
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@Gabrielle Does she get up at night at all? Also, has she always been in her own room?
yess, we have a montessori style floor bed and it’s full size so i can co sleep sometimes. we just lay with him until he is asleep and then go back to our bed. It’s been a game changer
We haven't transitioned and we don't go sleep anymore, but we did get a Montessori bed and we also went with the twin in case I want to read with him, or if he struggles with the transition I can cuddle with him. So I'm just seconding get a full size bed if you can. My only concern I have with it is my baby likes to sleep up against the rails right now so I'm not sure how he's going to do when we do transition him
We’ve done floor bed since birth and my daughter loves it. When she is having a rough night one of us will sleep on her bed with her. We cosleep with her as needed and that helped her transition better. We still lay next to her at night while she falls asleep to give her comfort but leave once she’s out
We’ve been doing a floor bed since 9 months. But she’s not totally independent yet. She sleeps independently for the first half of the night and then I join her once she wakes for the first time. So I don’t have any experience here, but I think if it were us, I’d have my husband start resettling/co-sleeping with the 19 month old at night and I’d focus on the newborns. But that’s just what I think would work for our family.
@Allie We are also planning to get a full size so one of us can lay with her. Is he in his own room? I worry about her wandering at night, lol. The playroom is right outside her room. I am hopeful she will cry or call us if she wakes up and can't go back to sleep. Usually she will call me and I'm always close by when she's in our room.
@Aly Good luck with the transition! Mine likes to wake up and be touching one of us, so I'm terrified she may not do well. Fingers crossed! We plan to lay with her each night, but she's never been in her own room. I think I'm going to take it worse than her. I'm not ready, haha!
@Darien Has she always been in her own room? My biggest worry is her getting up and wandering at night without me hearing her. I don't think she will, BUT she's always slept in our room, so I'm nervous. She obviously can't sleep in a bed in our room with twins, so I want her to get used to her own room without having the bed in ours.
@Cristal Before 9 months she was in between a crib and our bed in our bedroom. But I had to go back to work, so we moved a queen mattress to the floor in her room and I started sleeping with her there. She just sits up and cries if she wakes up and we hear her on the monitor. There have been 2 times that I’ve opened the door and she’s been standing waiting for us, but usually she sits on the bed and waits. As long as any stairs are blocked off, I wouldnt worry about wandering. We have it set up that even if she walked out of her room she’d be in a safe zone.
@Cristal I will also say, I remember being very sad about moving her to her own room, but I don’t remember it really bothering her, cause I still helped her fall asleep and she started sleeping for longer stretches.
My girl has been in a floor bed for a couple months. It’s worked fairly well, but hasn’t completely gotten us away from co-sleeping. She still wakes up a fair amount, so the floor bed was our lazy compromise so she can crawl into our bed when she wakes up 🫣 I am due in July with our second and have a bigger bed I want to try to transition her into and hopefully keep her in her own room a bit more.
We did. We switched last week. She’s been in a toddler bed for months now so it wasn’t much of a change but we got a twin bed so we could easily lay with her if we needed to.