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[pantryslut]

Last night we swapped the ladies' crib for a full-size mattress on the floor. Going to bed was relatively easy; they were excited to try out their new big-girl bed, although April kept asking "where bed?" and I had to keep telling her this was her new bed now, please put your head back down. Simone did slide halfway off in the middle of the night, but hey! Mattress on the floor, no foul!

They did fight over the sheet a bit.

This morning wasn't too bad, either. Nobody snuck out of the room and ran amok. Nobody made a huge mess with the newly accessible clothes, sheets, diapers, etc. They kept wanting to get back into bed and pretend to be asleep. OK! Eventually that game wore thin and it was time to get the morning routine started. At some point, then, the mattress morphed into the beach. A nude beach, no less, with naked toddlers sprawled out upon it, taking in the "sun."

So far, so good. Fingers crossed.

Next: bottles...

Comments

[bearsir.livejournal.com]

We're thinking about changing over. Stanley hasn't slept in his crib in I-don't-know-how-long - he thrashes, smacks a hand or foot on the bars, wakes himself, shrieks. Lather rinse repeat. So we've had him in our bed, but we'd like our bed back, at least sometimes. So we're thinking about getting him a single mattress, putting it on the floor and putting him to sleep there. Keep us posted on your adventures?

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

Neither of my kids slept in a crib because my firstborn climbed out of his crib at five weeks and then I just didn't want to deal with it anymore. I transitioned them to their beds gradually: first the bed was just a locus for their stuff, and then they slept in it on occasion, and then . . . I can't remember the rest of the steps . . .

[bearsir.livejournal.com]

Yeah, for a while there we could transfer him - somewhere between the Tiny stage when we kept him right with us for overnight eating and this new, very acrobatic Thrashy stage. Oh, well. He's snuggly and he smells good, even if he does tend to kick each of us in the ribs a couple times a night.

[jactitation.livejournal.com]

Why not just put the crib mattress on the floor?

[bearsir.livejournal.com]

Because our wee dude, 14 months, won't fall asleep without snuggles. Which is fine, and frankly seems perfectly reasonable. However, if we just put the crib mattress on the floor it means some one of his fat sleepy parents with bad knees has to lay on the floor next to his mattress while he falls asleep, which will not be happening. Thus, mattress.

[jactitation.livejournal.com]

I have different body issues, but I hear ya that the parent bodies are part of the equation! I have this thing like a single futon that I folded into thirds and sat like a chair next to his bed for snuggles, pillow as a chair back. And when he's sick, I unfold it and sleep next to him on the sheet I have folded inside it. (Except for last night when he had a brief, freak fever along with complaints of a stomach ache, and when he asked to come into my bed I happily complied so I could be touching him all night.)

I can see your point about going to the single mattress, but I'm trying to preserve as much floor space for play as possible until I can't put it off anymore.

[jactitation.livejournal.com]

Sounds fantastic! I also found that it was easier than I thought to get my kiddo into a bed with no restraints. But I am also still to engage the bottle battle...

[bearsir.livejournal.com]

What's the bottle battle?

[jactitation.livejournal.com]

And does it have to do with Tweedlebeetles? No, I just meant the day that I have to tell my kid that all the cool kids drink out of cups (tho he's already figured that out a bit, and one day told me not to give him bottles for nap at daycare). I was maybe assuming that's what pantryslut was referring to.

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

Yes, that's what I meant. We've eliminated bottles during the day, but they're still very much in play for naps and bedtime.