MSE Newborn to 1 year (& beyond!) baby club 3

sunshine_1988

Thanks for all your tips guys very much appreciated. We have some h and m ones for nursery. I do find, not sure if anyone else with a boy does too, it's very limited on the trouser side for boys!! With girls you can do all the different leggings, tights etc etc where as boys it's jeans, chinos or joggers - which are always very plain.

I have found some bits I love on zara for him. Next issue is trouser side, we have lots of zara tops and tshirts which fit fine in 2-3. I have no trousers and the zara ones I like only go up to 2-3, does anyone find them small?

Gilly, I feel your pain on those car seats - ouch!!

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sunshine_1988

Thanks Gilly. I'll order a couple of bits in each size and see what suits best. We still have room in 2-3, no chance of 18-24 anymore I do prefer the younger boys ranges though.

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Bangton

Mrsh. .how did the 'moving in his own bed go '?

Question from me? How do you know when to move lo from a cot to a bed (I'm getting a toddler bed first)? Xx

Saffagal

I'm not planning on moving A out of her cot (well taking the side off first which will make it like a bed) until I feel she will try to climb over the side or learns to remove her sleeping bag as she will then be able to climb out.

Obviously she'll have to come out sometime, but I'm in no rush. This morning she woke at 6. I didn't get up to her (she has a grow clock and I don't go in before the sun has come out unless she is ill/very distressed) and she went back to sleep until 7:30... With her in a bed we'd all have been up at 6!

Gillyx

I agree with Saffa, we only made the move when he could climb out his cot and it was no longer safe for him, however we had a great sleeper, since he went into his bed, his sleep hasn't been as good, whereas for some kids it's the other way around, when they move they sleep better? We had a cot bed so all we did was take the side off and reduce the height of the ends.

There isn't a rush really unless they're A - climbing out or B - you need the bed for a new sibling.

Morning everyone xx

*Nutella*

My LO will be 3 in May and she's still in a cot bed with the sides on - she's never attempted to climb out, and sometimes wakes up very early, so we're keeping the sides on for as long as possible, then taking them off, then getting her a normal single bed.

dizziblonde

Mine have gone into beds (well toddler beds, E is now in the bottom bed of a set of bunks since they were being given away and we'll need bunks in there eventually as their room isn't big enough to take two full-size singles - we've left the ladder off the bunks at the moment so the top one is out of reach) fairly early because they were trying to get a leg over the top of the cot and being so tall - they were close to managing it - about the 16 month or so mark.

Actually am glad I did it that early really - just made it much more matter of fact than being some kind of big change. Just taken the bed guard off R's bed completely (it's only a toddler one) - we have found the pair of them snuggled up in the same bed on a morning on a few occasions - either awake sharing a book being "read" to by the big one, or the little one zonked out at the bottom of her big sister's bed (don't know how she fits with the infestation of cuddly toys that E insists on having to sleep with her) and we had one 4am very indignant telling off session telling her little sister to get back into her own bed (was hilarious to listen to over the baby monitor - she broke out the full first name and surname telling off routine!) - but it's been fine generally.

Bobbi is the climber from hell now and can get out of sleeping bags and scale almost any vertical surface - her in a cot would be a nightmare (you can just about get away with a travel cot as there's nothing for her to get a foot up on)

sunshine_1988

We moved into a bed at 21 months. We had decorated his room so in order to put the cot back in we needed the sides off, so we trialled it leaving the sides off and he was fine.

As Gilly said, we were one of the ones who had massive sleep improvement when he went into a bed.

It just depends on when you feel they are ready....no rush at all.

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Saffagal

Dizzi, your two sound so cute with R joining E in bed and E telling R off.

I have another question regarding travel. We don't need to take a car seat with as I have one at our destination already. Legally, A can travel on the back seat without a car seat in a private taxi, but I'm not sure I feel comfortable about that as it would be about an hour's drive on the motorway. My FIL can't take us as he's having a hip replacement two days before we fly (and won't be able to fetch us as will be unable to drive for a minimum of 6 weeks. No other family can take us.
Options are therefore: drive ourselves and leave car at the airport. Take a taxi. Hmmm??

sunshine_1988

Saffagal wrote: »

Dizzi, your two sound so cute with R joining E in bed and E telling R off.

I have another question regarding travel. We don't need to take a car seat with as I have one at our destination already. Legally, A can travel on the back seat without a car seat in a private taxi, but I'm not sure I feel comfortable about that as it would be about an hour's drive on the motorway. My FIL can't take us as he's having a hip replacement two days before we fly (and won't be able to fetch us as will be unable to drive for a minimum of 6 weeks. No other family can take us.
Options are therefore: drive ourselves and leave car at the airport. Take a taxi. Hmmm??

I wouldn't travel without a carseat.


When we took A abroad, I contacted the transport company beforehand and they agreed to keep his carseat until we returned. I labelled it up and installed it before we left, then once they collected us, they just popped it in the back and we fitted it before we set off.


Could you perhaps try that? I am sure they would be fine with that - or if they do not wish to store it maybe ask if they can drop it at your in laws on the way back/a friend or family member collect it from the company and keep hold of it till you are back.


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