The toddler bed update! – Mummascribbles

As some of you know, on Saturday we changed Zach’s cot into a bed, gave him his big boy duvet and his big boy pillow and hoped for the best. You can see the previous post here but I thought I’d give a little update as a couple of people mentioned they’d be keeping an eye to see how we get on.

Of course, it is still early days but I am pleased to report that it has so far been a success. I won’t say that getting him to sleep has been a huge amount easier – we have managed to get him asleep by about 8pm for the last two nights and it did just take me until 8.30 tonight but we are also trying to work out his daytime nap which could be affecting things! He still takes a while to stop turning over, asking us to do this and that and asking to see the book we are reading to him, basically anything to try and stay awake! Eventually, he settles and falls asleep. The good news is that he has pretty much stayed where he is when he is asleep. He did do an amazing roll out on Saturday night; he slid down onto his hands, almost into a handstand and slowly made it fully onto the floor. By the time I got upstairs to assist him, he was already snuggling to get comfy on the carpet! And so far, that is the only roll out of bed! He has kept the covers on him for the majority of the time and is pretty much sleeping through the night (he woke up early this morning but that’s not unusual!). He looks so snug under his duvet and he seems to really like his ‘new’ bed – he especially likes being able to get in all by himself and get himself under the covers.

The only downside of this transition is that while he is still sleeping brilliantly, I have been waking in the middle of the night paranoid that I’m going to find him on the floor! I have a monitor in our room and when I wake in the pitch black, I quickly plug it in so I can take a peek at him and as usual, he is fine! Hopefully I’ll start sleeping through again once I am comfortable with him being a lot more free at night! I’m turning into a bit of a zombie again!

At the moment, I can say that we definitely made the right decision but there is still time for it to all go wrong. It’s looking positive right now though and hopefully sometime soon, he won’t need us in his room to get him to sleep!