Anyone else transitioning from crib to bed?

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Anyone with an older baby/toddler that’s sleeping in a crib still that you plan to give your March baby? My 2.5 year old sleeps in a crib still, we’ll be giving our March baby his crib but not until September because we’ll room share for the first 6 months. Debating if I should transition my oldest to a big boy bed now, before baby? When baby comes? Closer to September? He’s day potty trained but doesn’t wake up at night to pee, he sleeps my like a CHAMP (naps 1:30-3:30, sleeps 7 pm-7:30am) so I’m hesitant to change things up right now but people keep suggesting I do it before baby comes. And some have told me to take his crib out totally, some have said leave his crib in there and let him decide. probably overthinking this but I don’t know what to do!

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We just transitioned my almost 3 year old to a toddler bed last month. So far so good, no issues. I would probably do it now before the baby is born with some time to adjust to avoid too much change at once.

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We've been slowly working our 2.5 year old up to a "big girl bed". She got special sheets for Christmas and we've been talking about painting the room and getting the bed. We're taking it slow because we are also potty training, but we are also trying to do it before baby gets here so she doesn't feel "kicked out" by the baby. She is currently in a toddler bed that is a converted crib. We'll be keeping the baby in our room for a while so we don't need the room right away. I figured it would be nice to make it a whole personalized, exciting thing for her. She's excited about it all so far.

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I’m moving my 2.5 year old to another room soon (maybe next month) becoz I’m afraid my new baby will wake him up in the middle of the night. She’ll be sleeping in his crib. Plus, we’ll have the lights on when I wake up to breastfeed her and that may wake him up too. So he will be sleeping in another room.

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My little girl was 2 last month and we’re hoping to build her new bed before baby is here. Same reason as others I don’t want her to feel like the baby is taking her bed.

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My toddler transitioned to a toddler bed at 2. We have his old crib in storage and will put it back together at the beginning of summer. No rush since baby girl will be in our room for the first few months.

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My toddler is 20 months and we went to a toddler bed this month. She’s done great. I didn’t want to buy another crib so we just bought a toddler bed for her and allowed the crib the be empty until sister arrives.

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We just transitioned my 2 year old to a toddler bed over Christmas! I figured I would do it now before his brother comes and even though baby is gonna sleep in the same room as us for the first few months so I can put the crib out of sight out of mind so he won't be feeling like his brother took "his" bed. I also wanted to get it done early because I know we're all gonna be feeling the changes when he arrives so I didn't wanna wait and overwhelm him afterwards

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My toddlers only 18 months now and I have another baby coming in March. He sleeps super good in his crib and never tries to climb out. Since I planned to have the baby sleep in our room for the first 4-6 months I’m not going to make any changes for my toddler yet. Probably in June or July we’ll transition him to a new room with a toddler bed. But there’s going to be so many other changes when the baby comes him sleeping in the nursery in the crib for a couple extra months I think is best. I’m keeping the nursery exactly the same for next baby (unless it’s a girl I’ll just change artwork) since I kept it neutral from the beginning so I’m in no rush to have to change things.

Anyone else transitioning from crib to bed?

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