I've spent the entire day so far at work obsessively searching google for the answer ... i've searched some posts here too but I thought I'd post anyway since maybe some parents out there have a similar challenge, or some advice (i hope, i hope).
Just last week I was quoted saying what a great sleeper my 22 mo DS has become, he loves his crib, his animals, he sleeps from abt 8:30 til 7, life is starting to feel pretty healthy and great... And then BAM.
Two nights ago he woke up screaming and wouldn't go back to bed until we brought him in our room.
Last night, he became so upset at one point after we'd left the room that he somehow climbed out of his crib. And walked down the hall... he would NOT go to sleep in his crib.
He was saying there was a squeaky noise (he tends to be pretty verbal, and his crib does squeak, but it always has - it did two nights ago too!?)
Anyway, point is throughout the night he would wake up hysterical screaming(not night terrors, very much awake) and then at 4:30 tried again to climb out of his bed... and I heard a huge BOOM, he fell.
He was ok but this is not good. he ended up sleeping in our bed of course. So, he won that fight...
It's one thing to face the challenge of the bedtime battle, but the climbing out the crib? Its so scary and dangerous!
If this were last week, I never would have considered him ready for a "big boy bed" or toddler bed or whatever.
But now I feel like it's unsafe to keep him in the crib.
Does anyone have an under two year old who sleeps in a toddler bed?
Any other advice, in general?
Just last week I was quoted saying what a great sleeper my 22 mo DS has become, he loves his crib, his animals, he sleeps from abt 8:30 til 7, life is starting to feel pretty healthy and great... And then BAM.
Two nights ago he woke up screaming and wouldn't go back to bed until we brought him in our room.
Last night, he became so upset at one point after we'd left the room that he somehow climbed out of his crib. And walked down the hall... he would NOT go to sleep in his crib.
He was saying there was a squeaky noise (he tends to be pretty verbal, and his crib does squeak, but it always has - it did two nights ago too!?)
Anyway, point is throughout the night he would wake up hysterical screaming(not night terrors, very much awake) and then at 4:30 tried again to climb out of his bed... and I heard a huge BOOM, he fell.
He was ok but this is not good. he ended up sleeping in our bed of course. So, he won that fight...
It's one thing to face the challenge of the bedtime battle, but the climbing out the crib? Its so scary and dangerous!
If this were last week, I never would have considered him ready for a "big boy bed" or toddler bed or whatever.
But now I feel like it's unsafe to keep him in the crib.
Does anyone have an under two year old who sleeps in a toddler bed?
Any other advice, in general?