What age did your kids stop sleeping in a crib?

[tonilea]

DS slept in the crib from birth to 2 1/2 months. He hated the bassinette! Then I have back to back gall bladder surgeries when he was 2 1/2 months old. We started co-sleeping then. It worked well until he was about 18 months old and then he started turning sideways in the bed, so we moved him back into the crib. He stayed in it from 18 months until he was almost four. He never climbed out.

As long as they are happy, I wouldn't move them. Just my 2 cents.

 

[ScottOKW2K]

At just past 1 y/o. Tried the toddler bed ( what a waste ) and after 2 nights moved her to a queen size bed. She's been sleeping in queen size since then - she's 16 now.

 

[disfan07]

I'm not a parent but from what i have seen in 9 years of babysitting, the most common times to move were either if they began to climb out or if there was a new baby coming.

But seriously...once they start climbing out, move them from the crib.

I babysat for a family once whos almost 4 year old was still in a crib adn he would continuously climb out and apparently he had been climbing out since he was 2 1/2. I don't get why once they can climb out you wouldnt move them.

That being said, they are the only family(out of12) where a child older than 2 1/2 was in a crib. Most of them were out by 2.

I was out of a crib at 13 months when i apparently tried to fly out of my crib. And than i stopped napping (apparently i never napped anyways.....yet 20 years later i love my naps...maybe i'm making up for lost time)

 

[themilesfamily]

co sleeping. We let the kids sleep with us in bed when they were younger. I breastfeed and it was the only way I would get any sleep.

We also co-slept.

We had a crib but really only used it for naps. We bought a toddler bed for DD's second birthday and gave her the option of sleeping there or with us. She went back and forth for a while and eventually transitioned into sleeping in her toddler bed full-time, on her own.

 

[barrett7890]

we moved our daughter just before she turned 2......after she vaulted from her cot one morning! that night the bed was put together

The napping during the day thing didn't matter as she hadn't napped for months anyway.

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[NHdisneylover]

DD was a climber and started climbing out of the crib at 9 months, so we put her in a toddler bed. She stayed in that just fine (she just wanted to climb I think). She was never a napper in the crib or the bed
DS was 15 months old when we moved to another state. We knew he was our last so we opted not to take the crib with us (it wouldn't have fit in the hotel room we were living in for 3 months upon moving anyway--after three months he has to be used to a bed). It was no problem and did not disrupt his sleeping/napping schedule at all.

 

[MIGrandma]

It's been too long ago to remember how old they were.

But as soon as they started climbing out of their cribs on a regular basis, that's when we moved them to a regular bed. To me, if they can climb out of their crib, and do it often, what's the point of keeping them in a crib?

 

[mjkacmom]

My 3 oldest were over 3 (and potty trained), but my twins were 2 (they kept climbing out of their cribs). If they're not climbers, I see no reason to move them. I actually had to bribe my older 3 - they LOVED their cribs, and were amazing sleepers, who napped until the age of 4 (unlike the twins).

 

[belle&sebastiansmom]

Lots of climbers here, buy my son was a chewer. He was chewing through his wooden crib, so we moved him to a toddler bed at 11 months. We had to get a huge hard plastic Fire Truck bed just so he couldn't gnaw through it. He just turned 2 this week and about 2 weeks ago we moved him to a twin bed. He was just to big and tossed and turned too much for the toddler bed. We put the mattress and boxspring on the floor, no bed frame. It's off the ground, but not too high that if he rolls out he'll get hurt. Bed rails won't work for him, tried those at Disney earlier last month and all he did was try to stand on them and jump.

 

[DMickey28]

Due to circumstances my DS started sleeping in a queen bed this summer at 2 years and 3 months. He has done fine. Everyone once in a while we have a challenge with naps but nothing crazy. He is also very large, over 40inches and just about 40lbs and is now 2.5 years old. My DH was fearful of him falling out of the crib trying to climb out.

He is going to be going back to his crib, converted as a toddler bed in a few weeks. We will see how that goes!! We may end up buying a bed sooner than we think!!

 

[Nancy]

I'd say it was between 2 and 2.5. Went right to twin beds..no toddler beds.

 

[suejai]

DS started climbing out of his crib at around the 17-18 month mark.

I remember one night in particular that decided us into getting rid of the crib. He was notouriously hard to put down and would cry and cry. This particular night I decided I would just let him cry it out. His crib was in our room at the time (don't ask it was a bad time in our lives) and when I went to check on him I could hear him breathing but it wasn't coming from his crib it was coming from our bed. I felt my way over to the bed and discovered him sleeping on our bed with Kleenex scattered everywhere and several magazines. I guess he thought he would read himself to sleep in the dark. We got him a bed after that.

 

[PatsGirl]

DS, now 19, started climbing out of his crib at about 8 months old and before he was a year I had switched him to a twin bed. This was after many funny stories of his middle-of-the-night antics which may have become dangerous I don't remember exactly when but it became necessary for me to share a room with him in order to get some sleep

DD had to be pulled kicking and screaming from her crib at about 3 1/2 years old. She LOVED it...except at nap time, when one particular afternoon she banged it against the wall for so long the screws fell out, the crib fell apart, and out of "no-nap" frustration, I threw it out the 2nd floor slider while she sat at the window and cried No, No, not my cribbie, I want my cribbie

 

[HelenePA]

My 3 oldest were over 3 (and potty trained), but my twins were 2 (they kept climbing out of their cribs). If they're not climbers, I see no reason to move them. I actually had to bribe my older 3 - they LOVED their cribs, and were amazing sleepers, who napped until the age of 4 (unlike the twins).

Okay how did it work out with being potty trained? Did they just call for you if they had to go during the night? My first son was trained at 22-23 months and out of a crib by then (I pray nightly it works out the same this time lol)

 

[Tasha+Scott]

Our dd switched from a crib to a toddler bed when she turned 3. We tried to switch her at 2 but she simply wasn't ready. She didn't want to switch when she turned 3 either but her brother was due to arrive a month after that and we didn't want to buy another crib so...

Our ds is now 15 months old and still content in his crib. I hope he will be for quite a while to come. It is nice having them contained for as long as possible at night.

 

[justhat]

Okay how did it work out with being potty trained? Did they just call for you if they had to go during the night? My first son was trained at 22-23 months and out of a crib by then (I pray nightly it works out the same this time lol)

Mine were out of the crib before they were trained, but with my son we had to put a fence at the door. He wears a pullup to bed, but when he does wake up to pee he would just call at the door and I'd come get him. He was also trained at 22 months so the same age as your son so I hope it works the same for your new one too!

Oh, and my daughter didn't have a fence, but she'd still want me to take her to the potty overnight even though she could walk there on her own. So I figured with the fence it wasn't a huge difference.

 

[DVC-Don]

My son was about 2.5 and daughter about 2 . They started climbing out at those ages.

 

[mickeyboat]

DD10 was older than 3. She was very content in the crib and never once tried to climb out. We put her into a twin bed when she was potty training at night. DD9 was a little older than 2.