Mummascribbles – Another big day!! – Mummascribbles

Well today has been another big day in our house…today we changed Zach’s cot into a bed!! I don’t know if it’s the right thing to have done but he was really starting to dislike being trapped behind the bars of the cot and bedtime has been a nightmare for a few weeks now so it made sense to give it a go.

Last week I spent hours trawling the Internet trying to find a duvet and pillow, and trying to find suitable bedding. You wouldn’t believe how hard it is finding non expensive 100% cotton bedding sets. Most I came across were a good £50-60 which considering it’s a toddler bed set is gross! I don’t even pay that amount for our kingsize! Because Zach suffers with eczema I try and keep everything to pure cotton as it’s more breathable for his little skin.

I eventually found a nice set in mothercare and another nice set from a company called Baroo for not too much money. I also managed to find a duvet and pillow from Asda that was 100% cotton and was really chuffed with that little find as I’d convinced myself that was not going to be completely cotton!

All deliveries arrived by Thursday so I got them all washed and dried for today’s transition!

He was upstairs with us while we were changing his bed around and was very excited about it. He had a little tester and kept saying Zach go to bed, turn the light out, turn the stars on but it wasn’t bedtime then! It was actually dinner time!

And so this evening he had his bath, got in his pyjamas and went to his big boy bed with his big boy duvet and his big boy pillow. He fidgeted just as much as he did in his cot, and bearing in mind he’s had no nap today, he still fought sleep – not for quite as long as he has been but he fought it.

At the moment, we seem to just have a toddler who doesn’t want to fall asleep and miss out on anything, and who equally needs at least one parent there until he’s asleep!

What is easier for us now that he doesn’t have bars up is that we can lean on his bed and read him a story and we don’t get our arms stuck while we are stroking his hand!

As I write, he did cave into sleep and I can see he is fast asleep. Let’s just hope he doesn’t roll out or kick the covers off! At least we got a decent lie in this morning if that is the case!

Wish us luck with our latest development, I’m sure I’ll be back in a few days with an update!! In the meantime, feel free to pass on your cot to bed stories and any advice you have for getting a not wanting to go to sleep toddler, to sleep!!

Here’s the little munchkin testing out his bed earlier!!

Tags: eczema, sleep, Toddler, bed, transition, cot