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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 63817" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Something to try - read him a naptime or bedtime story. Snuggle up in his BED, let him move around while you're there to get a comfy position. If he falls asleep while you're reading, tiptoe out but keep listening. If he wakes later on and wants his crib, put him in it, but keep up this routine until he realises wherever it is in his head that he NEEDS to realise, that it's safe and OK to sleep in his bed.</p><p></p><p>My mother used to read to her grandkids at naptime, on her bed. Sometimes she would stay and nap with them, sometimes she would ease herself off the bed and go and potter around the house. No monitors back then, she just had to keep an ear out for them. And quite a number of my nephews were difficult child, well and truly!</p><p></p><p>Something else my mother invented - probably illegal now. It was a harness which was made of soft calico. It was like a very wide belt which tied up with bows around the child's waist, but was stitched with a single line of vertical stitching, to a very wide band of calico which wrapped around the bed and underneath it. Putting a toddler to bed in a normal, 'big' bed can be dangerous, especially the old beds we had which were quite high. We used tis so they couldn't fall out of bed, but still had freedom to roll from one side to another. The cleverer ones could even undo the bow themselves when they woke up - generally if they could undo the bow, they no longer needed the belt because they were safe enough in the big bed now. We'd listen for them to wake and go in and untie them. Often they'd be sitting up in bed (it really did allow a lot of movement) and playing with the toy or book they'd taken to bed with them. They weren't upset, nor did they feel confined, because we only used it to keep them safe while asleep. It could be too easily abused, if it was something on the market. But they did feel very proud when they were permitted to nap without it, because they were now big enough to keep themselves safe.</p><p>I think my mother invented this because of difficult children - my oldest brother, and a lot of my nephews. She figured it was safer than a too-young child falling out of bed, or wandering around playing with stuff she hadn't been able to child-proof. Often she'd be in the next room with another child - she had 24 grandchildren! Thankfully, not all at the same age.</p><p></p><p>The harness also gave the toddlers the confidence and sense of safety. And looking back, I do wonder how many of them felt secure with that belt snugly round their waist - I think of difficult child 3's "hug vest", easy child 2/difficult child 2's preference for wearing tightly laced corsets ("It feels like wearing a hug") and consider other aspects of these kids, and wonder about Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD) incidence in my family.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 63817, member: 1991"] Something to try - read him a naptime or bedtime story. Snuggle up in his BED, let him move around while you're there to get a comfy position. If he falls asleep while you're reading, tiptoe out but keep listening. If he wakes later on and wants his crib, put him in it, but keep up this routine until he realises wherever it is in his head that he NEEDS to realise, that it's safe and OK to sleep in his bed. My mother used to read to her grandkids at naptime, on her bed. Sometimes she would stay and nap with them, sometimes she would ease herself off the bed and go and potter around the house. No monitors back then, she just had to keep an ear out for them. And quite a number of my nephews were difficult child, well and truly! Something else my mother invented - probably illegal now. It was a harness which was made of soft calico. It was like a very wide belt which tied up with bows around the child's waist, but was stitched with a single line of vertical stitching, to a very wide band of calico which wrapped around the bed and underneath it. Putting a toddler to bed in a normal, 'big' bed can be dangerous, especially the old beds we had which were quite high. We used tis so they couldn't fall out of bed, but still had freedom to roll from one side to another. The cleverer ones could even undo the bow themselves when they woke up - generally if they could undo the bow, they no longer needed the belt because they were safe enough in the big bed now. We'd listen for them to wake and go in and untie them. Often they'd be sitting up in bed (it really did allow a lot of movement) and playing with the toy or book they'd taken to bed with them. They weren't upset, nor did they feel confined, because we only used it to keep them safe while asleep. It could be too easily abused, if it was something on the market. But they did feel very proud when they were permitted to nap without it, because they were now big enough to keep themselves safe. I think my mother invented this because of difficult children - my oldest brother, and a lot of my nephews. She figured it was safer than a too-young child falling out of bed, or wandering around playing with stuff she hadn't been able to child-proof. Often she'd be in the next room with another child - she had 24 grandchildren! Thankfully, not all at the same age. The harness also gave the toddlers the confidence and sense of safety. And looking back, I do wonder how many of them felt secure with that belt snugly round their waist - I think of difficult child 3's "hug vest", easy child 2/difficult child 2's preference for wearing tightly laced corsets ("It feels like wearing a hug") and consider other aspects of these kids, and wonder about Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD) incidence in my family. Marg [/QUOTE]
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