Moving from cot to a bed

I wondered what everyone’s set up is for moving their LO from a cot to a bed? Our boy is climbing out of his cot every night now and we aren’t sure if to put a stair gate at his bedroom door or if there’s a different set up for this.. x

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Honestly we just did it and hoped for the best, we took the side off his cot bed when we found out we were expecting number 2 at Christmas and our boy doesn't leave his bed. Only twice I've found him out of his bed when he's woken and he's stayed in his room - once I think he had fallen out and once he had climbed over to the armchair.

We changed from a cot to bed ages ago. Probably at least a year or more. We have a stair gate and a thing to stop him from putting the door handle down as he kept opening the door and making it into a game. Until we added the door handle thing he just kept getting up about 50 times before falling asleep
Once the door handle thing was done he pretty much settled within 5-10 mins each night

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