The Big Girl Bed
We are in the process of switching Amelia to a big girl bed. Actually a toddler bed, but it’s much more grown up than the crib. We started on Sunday night, so this was her 3rd night with the new bed. She did good Sunday night, although it took an hour to get her to tire enough to stay in bed, but she slept all night long and got up just after 5am. Monday night, we started the the whole bedtime thing too late and she ended up overexhausted and had a meltdown so we put her in her crib to cry it out. It only took about 5-10 min for her to finally go to sleep. Then last night, we started much earlier. After about 30 minutes of getting back out of the bed, we left her nightlight on and closed her door, so at least she had to stay in her room. She cried, but after 20-30 minutes she had settled down. And when DH went to check on her, she was sleeping on her changing pad on the floor in front of the door. He moved her to her bed and she slept til about 1:45 when she got up and went to the kitchen. She went straight to the fridge wanting a cup of water. I gave it to her and took her back to bed, telling her it was still night time and she had to stay in bed and try to go back to sleep. I guess all she needed was a drink, because she stayed in her bed, although I’m pretty sure it took her a little while to get back to sleep. I could hear her coughing. And she stayed there sleeping til I woke her around 7am this morning.
So it’s going okay for the first few nights. I hope she keeps it up and soon realizes that bedtime means staying in bed and not playing. And maybe by her birthday we’ll be able to take the crib out of her room for good. My baby really is growing up.
