Twin/Full sized bed

I apologize if this has been posted before, I tried to do a search but yielded no return.

Question for the btdt moms. Can you please tell me how old your child was when you put them in their own Twin or Full sized Mattress bed?

Did your son have a hard adjustment time from crib/toddler bed to a bed of such a bigger size

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DD was 2 when we moved her to a regular twin bed.

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DD was 2 years, 4 months. We went with a twin bed with a guard rail. The first 2 weeks were a bit rough because she was going from the crib to the bed and was a little jack in the box - always climbing out of bed and coming into our room. . . but now she's a champ (we did a little bit of CIO).

We had gone away for a week in the summer and she was sleeping in the bed with us (no crib at rented house). When we got back home we put her in the crib and she immediately tried to climb out. We had bought the bed and mattress a few weeks before and were storing it in a spare room until she was ready.

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DD was a little older than 2.5 when we actually got her to sleep in her twin bed. We just told her that her crib broke when she questioned why it was disassembled in the hallway. For some reason she accepted that answer and it wasn't a big deal. However, she would not sleep in the bed when we still had the crib assembled in her room.

We just got DD a queen size bed to replace her twin (more so for when my ILs stay with us they have a place to sleep while DD sleeps on a blowup bed.) She only slept in her twin for a few months and used a safety rail with that (only one side was exposed with the twin). When the queen arrived, I didn't bother putting on the safety rail(s) and both sides were exposed. It has been about two months and so far so good! She loves her "Big Bed".

The one thing I did make sure was that the queen bed was low profile! I made the mistake of getting her a plush pillow-top twin, so it was on the high side (she needed a step stool to get on it , so we had to remove the box spring.)

Message edited 9/28/2009 4:23:51 PM.

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DD was not yet two but climbing out of her crib and she is big for her age. We started with a twin mattress and boxspring on the floor to transition her (for a couple weeks prior she'd been on the crib mattress, on the floor because she'd pitched right out of the toddler bed.)

After a few months we put the bed up on a frame. Ironically, she never fell out when the bed was on the floor but she fell out last week from the bed on the frame. But I think it was a one time thing- she didn't even wake up.

ETA- she did fine with the change- no problems at all. But I think she got to the point where she just was not comfortable in the crib anymore. She had so little space to move about.

Message edited 9/28/2009 5:16:14 PM.