Bedtime troubles - Worried for my wife

[Paul_B]

Hi All,

I am having to work away a little at the moment, which is normally fine. However, just after Christmas we moved our 2 yr old son into a toddler bed from a cot, and have been trying to get him to settle down without causing mayhem every night.

Unfortunately, although we try and be a consistent as possible, he seems to act like quite evolutionary, and suddenly gains a unstoppable resistance to our efforts. He ends up collapsing on the floor if we go to put him back into bed.

This is now a big problem, as my wife is 6 weeks pregnant and with me being away overnight shes scared of lifting him. Hes not small for a 2 yr old!!

Does anyone have any ideas we could adopt?

Thanks in advance.

Paul

 

[chezzabell]

Hva eu tried putting him in his bedroom and shutting the door, awful i know but he will soon get used to it??

 

[budge]

Hi All,

I am having to work away a little at the moment, which is normally fine. However, just after Christmas we moved our 2 yr old son into a toddler bed from a cot, and have been trying to get him to settle down without causing mayhem every night.

Unfortunately, although we try and be a consistent as possible, he seems to act like quite evolutionary, and suddenly gains a unstoppable resistance to our efforts. He ends up collapsing on the floor if we go to put him back into bed.

This is now a big problem, as my wife is 6 weeks pregnant and with me being away overnight shes scared of lifting him. Hes not small for a 2 yr old!!

Does anyone have any ideas we could adopt?

Thanks in advance.

Paul

have you tried velcroing him to the mattress?

 

[chezzabell]

Hi All,

I am having to work away a little at the moment, which is normally fine. However, just after Christmas we moved our 2 yr old son into a toddler bed from a cot, and have been trying to get him to settle down without causing mayhem every night.

Unfortunately, although we try and be a consistent as possible, he seems to act like quite evolutionary, and suddenly gains a unstoppable resistance to our efforts. He ends up collapsing on the floor if we go to put him back into bed.

This is now a big problem, as my wife is 6 weeks pregnant and with me being away overnight shes scared of lifting him. Hes not small for a 2 yr old!!

Does anyone have any ideas we could adopt?

Thanks in advance.

Paul

have you tried velcroing him to the mattress?

is that what u do to ur kids budge??

works a treat doesnt it

 

[Paul_B]

Closing the door wouldn' really work as he is able to open it (hes very tall!)..My wife has suggested putting a stair gate in his doorway so he can see out but not get out, and hpefully eventually give up and then wander back to bed... Unfortunately he also has a tendancy to end up sleeping on the floor which would still involve my wife lfting him back into bed.

Any other ideas, or comments on this one?

Paul

 

[chezzabell]

leave him on the floor he will soon get sick.

Yea a stair gate would help , do u read him bedtime stories etc??? you could always try staying with him till he went a sleep

 

[budge]

Closing the door wouldn' really work as he is able to open it (hes very tall!)..My wife has suggested putting a stair gate in his doorway so he can see out but not get out, and hpefully eventually give up and then wander back to bed... Unfortunately he also has a tendancy to end up sleeping on the floor which would still involve my wife lfting him back into bed.

Any other ideas, or comments on this one?

Paul

if he likes sleeping on the floor let him. prepare a bed on the floor where he can sleep safetl and comfortably. your wife can just leave him there all night then knowing hes ok and won't fall out of bed.

 

[budge]

and id definately get a stairgate put up. or a brick wall built even better!

 

[chezzabell]

and id definately get a stairgate put up. or a brick wall built even better!

trust you

 

[skatty]

Would a gro bag work or will he persist and trip over?

 

[Hypnorm]

We've just moved our 18m old son to a toddler bed, we found by trial and error that if we tried to pin him in to bed to to keep putting him back he foubd it as a game, and would fight back. so we tried taking him up to his room getting changed, brush teeth etc, then sitting him on his bed and reading him a story and giving him his drink , giving him he sleep toy.
dimming the lights and then gradulayy leaving the room, every time he poked his legs out of bed we would say NO, ITS BED TIME, so we would get out of the room and he'd get out of bed so we would say no etc and he would jump on to his bed, then we would get to the other side of the stair gate and he'd get out, so we would repeat again, but not taking him to bed, he would get in to bed on his own, the we would go down the stairs and wait at the bottom, he would usually appear at the stair gate, and we would say bed now and he scurries off to bed. we have a night light on the landing and all the other rooms are shut, and there is a night light in is room too.
this has been 3 weeks now and we have had no real problems, i think the more you force him the more he will resist.
I would suggest a stair gate at the door, taking anything noisy that he can play with out of his room.

Supernanny on the telly suggest taking them to bed 3 times with just the same words bed time and no other interaction, then after three times you just take them to bed, and keep doing it.

If he fallls asleep on the floor i wouldnt worry to much he will get the idea, ewan has only slept on the floor once and that it when he fell out! good luck!

 

[Urchin]

I would get a stairgate and set up a little bed on the floor. Saying that I'm sure if he slept on the floor for a couple of nights he'd soon realise he may as well get back into bed.

Good luck.

 

[bobtheunfortunateone]

(Hum brick them in you say)(Gets cement and bricks) Not at that point YET! But they do say the more you talk to them and respond to there actions the more they will act up! A gate at the door will workor a lock. She as too be firm, if he wants to sleep on the floor all night, thats his choice, they soon learn. Kids are not as stupid as we are lead to think, they know too much! They play us off perfectly! Get a routine and stick to it.

Im dreading it, but its worked with controlled crying, and biting, only give one warning.