Toddler beds in addition to babe gates


C belongings sleeping O's manus saying, "Brother night-night!"

We only transitioned our 26-month former twins to toddler beds.

I posted a weblog almost the start fourth dimension our twin toddlers slept inward a existent bed, which happened to live on a identify unit of measurement opor-garai (read "Impossible"). They had genuinely been climbing out of Pack'n'Plays long before that. Before they were only climbing inward as well as out of each other's Pack'n'Plays during our visits to my parents' house. The room they slumber inward at that spot has round out door knobs, non handles similar where nosotros stayed on vacation, as well as they didn't realize they could escape. I would only overly babe proof the room they slept inward at my parents' theatre as well as pray that they didn't apply this demeanour i time nosotros got abode to their cribs.

When nosotros got abode from our identify unit of measurement vacation, they did brand the connectedness that since they could climb inward as well as out of their Pack'n'Plays, they could climb inward as well as out of their cribs. We had seen them attempt this before as well as nosotros would sternly say, "No! We produce non climb." This worked when they were niggling toddlers; every bit big, bad two-year olds they said, "Danger? I express mirth inward the confront of danger-- ha, ha, ha, ha!" We knew they were climbing out of their cribs because non alone would nosotros notice them inward each other's cribs inward the morning, but nosotros would also withdraw heed the loud THUMP! followed past times the loud cry, "Mooooooomma!" We ignored it. "Climbing out of their cribs? No... they alone produce it occasionally. They volition acquire to stop," nosotros said. Shocked nosotros were every fourth dimension nosotros flora them out of their ain cribs when nosotros walked into their room inward the morn or after nap, though nosotros flora them that means every fourth dimension nosotros walked inward their room. Complete as well as utter denial.

And as well as so nosotros flora them "planking" on the side of their cribs. Specifically, nosotros flora O planking on the side of his as well as C's crib, similar a babe bridge. We could deny it no longer. This was indeed a problem.

With a heavy heart, nosotros converted their cribs to toddler beds. They had their niggling Fisher Price babe tools inward their bedchamber helping me unscrew the sides. They helped pose the screws inward Ziploc bags so nosotros wouldn't lose them. They helped brand the beds as well as tuck their babe dolls inward the bed, "See? Baby sleeps inward a toddler bed. Baby doesn't climb out of bed. Baby likes staying inward bed all black long as well as taking naps inward his ain bed, similar is Momma tells him to. Good baby..."

While Baby may similar staying inward his toddler bed, C as well as O most definitely produce not.

C sleeping behind the door inward his room

It took our oldest almost a calendar week to figure out that he didn't lead keep to remain inward bed. Of course, he was almost a yr as well as a one-half former as well as hence much to a greater extent than obedient; our toddlers are only over ii as well as similar testing boundaries much more. However, our oldest didn't portion a room alongside a twin blood brother as well as they are. I think it is much to a greater extent than tempting to crawl out of bed to run across what your blood brother is doing when y'all lead keep the liberty to produce so. They crawled out of bed instantly the start night. We firmly told them, "No," as well as pose them dorsum to bed. I did stand upward exterior their door as well as pose them dorsum to bed every fourth dimension I heard them acquire up, regardless of how tranquility they were being. I don't know if it was the slumber training-- they travel to bed every black at 8 pm-- or my consistency, but they haven't had every bit good much issues alongside bedtime.

We did lead keep problems alongside i of the toddlers waking upward inward the middle of the black for almost the start calendar week of toddler beds. C would wake upward to a greater extent than or less midnight screaming bloody murder. I'm non for sure what would wake him up. The start dyad nights he pointed to where the crib rails was every bit if he was upset it was gone. The adjacent black or so I think he only got into the habit of waking upward as well as having Momma tuck him dorsum in. Realizing this, I told him, "Momma is going to tuck y'all inward now. I'm non coming dorsum in. You involve to travel to bed." I gave him a kiss as well as permit him cry. It made me deplorable because nosotros haven't genuinely made them yell it out (we did 12 Hours inward 12 Weeks Old: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Step-by-Step Plan for Baby Sleep Success past times Suzy Giordano) as well as I didn't desire him feeling like, "Oh, great. I don't desire to live inward a toddler bed as well as at nowadays Mommy as well as Daddy are abandoning me." It took him ii or 3 nights as well as and so the middle of the black hr long scream fest stopped. I would only travel inward the start time, tell him good-night as well as I wasn't coming dorsum in, tuck him into bed, as well as and so permit him cry.

Before toddler beds, I was chaffing nether our nap schedule. C would nap-- seriously-- from almost 12 pm to 4:30 pm. If I pose him downwards at 1 pm, he would acquire upward to a greater extent than or less 5:30 pm, sometimes later. I was trying to force our afternoon nap dorsum to to a greater extent than or less 2 pm so he wouldn't slumber so long (though he was as well as so only napping from 2 pm to half dozen pm or later). I felt similar I was stuck at abode all afternoon for him to nap betwixt 4 as well as 5 hours; I wanted freedom. Oh, foolish thoughts.

After toddler beds, I wishing I was stuck at abode all afternoon due to a long nap. Naps evaporated-- poof! C genuinely needs his nap. O would accept a nap before the transition, anywhere betwixt 45 minutes to 3 hours, normally at to the lowest degree an hour. He had some fussy afternoons after toddler beds, but C genuinely took the cake for fussy. We are talking almost full-on, clinging, screaming, flailing, breathholding temper tantrums. Over everything. E.v.e.r.y.t.h.i.n.g. From the fourth dimension he woke upward inward the morn to the fourth dimension he went to bed. And because he was inward a toddler bed, he would flail out of his bed as well as run to the bedchamber door every bit before long every bit I set him down; the convenient containment of a crib was gone. When he was inward a crib as well as genuinely needed a nap, I could lay him down, heed to him yell for a dyad minutes, peek my caput in, as well as run across him sleeping soundly alongside his blanket shoved upward his nose. Now nosotros lead keep this endless battle. Go in, lay him down, he screams, runs to the door, climbs over the gate, I travel in, lay him down, he screams, runs to the door, climbs over the gate... Get the picture?

Oh, yes, as well as his twin blood brother as well as so decides to bring together in. O may non involve a nap every bit badly, but he is soundless to a greater extent than tired than usual. He hasn't had whatsoever downwards time-- a crib is bully for providing a niggling tranquility play inward a familiar, prophylactic environment-- as well as he wants Momma. Now. So I lead keep O screaming at the gate downwards the hall for me, C screaming at the gate inward his bedroom, as well as our oldest feeling rattling tired of the crying. And non alone was our oldest D tired of the crying, but my hubby as well as I were. It was a tense fourth dimension for all of us, (read "Marriage").

My ii other weblog posts on this topic, "Keep calm as well as conduct on" as well as "First fourth dimension mom," assist capture the essence of how crazy it has been to a greater extent than or less here. Our whole groove was thrown off. I was accustomed to having a 4 hr block of relative peace inward the afternoon. Our preschooler was used to having some one-on-one fourth dimension alongside Momma every afternoon, reading stories as well as doing a special projection (usually only drawing pictures together). Laundry backed up, cooking "fancy" dinners stopped, as well as I felt similar nosotros were thrown into survival mode. We genuinely were thrown off our groove.

I reached out to other moms almost how they transitioned to toddler beds. I heard a lot of people country they separated their twins at naptime i time they transitioned to toddler beds. This pick doesn't piece of work good for us every bit they can't nap inward their older brother's room as well as our bedchamber isn't precisely babe proof (it has travel the catch-all of all non-baby proof things inward our house-- our dressers are piled alongside things nosotros don't desire the babies getting their hands on). I also heard several moms country they sat inward their children's room during naptime as well as bedtime to brand for sure they went to sleep.

My hubby as well as I talked. How produce we desire to enforce bedtime as well as naptime? I know I don't desire to sit down inward their room for fifty-fifty 10 minutes every unmarried black when nosotros pose them to bed, or for notwithstanding long it takes them to nap every afternoon. We decided on a null tolerance policy at bedtime. If nosotros withdraw heed them making whatsoever dissonance at bedtime, nosotros travel inward as well as pose them down. This has genuinely worked. They've been inward their toddler beds for-- what?-- 3 weeks now?-- as well as they travel to bed without problems. Naptime is a dissimilar story. We decided that nosotros would produce a tranquility fourth dimension policy: if they are quiet, fine. Don't aid if y'all are napping or playing quietly, y'all are staying inward your room until I come upward acquire you. I genuinely think nosotros volition switch to the null tolerance policy for naptime every bit well; they only aren't going downwards for nap well.

Remember my weblog post on the weird showering dilemma I had (read, "Showering")? Now I lead keep nowhere to travel out the toddlers piece I shower. My boys lead keep figured out that if y'all tin climb out of a Pack'n'Play, y'all tin climb out of your crib as well as if y'all tin climb out of your crib, y'all tin climb over a babe gate. I pose them inward their room as well as they climb over the babe gate. I pose them inward the playroom as well as they climb over the babe gate. There are alone so many child-proof places that I tin travel out them for me to shower piece they are awake. I've taken to showering at black after they travel to bed or inward the morn before my hubby leaves.

This morn was dissimilar inward that I had plans alongside the kids as well as needed to shower. Hubby left early on as well as so I was left alongside ii toddlers as well as preschooler to entertain piece I showered. I decided to prepare the preschooler upward inward the identify unit of measurement room alongside Magic School Bus as well as his writing notebook to re-create words down. For the toddlers, I pose the gate upward inward the playroom as well as told them to play piece Momma took a quick shower. I think they idea I was leaving because they flipped out. I comforted them, assured them I wasn't leaving, as well as and so brought them downwards the hall to their bedchamber so they could run across as well as withdraw heed me piece I showered. I pose them inward their room alongside the gate up, went to plough on Magic School Bus for D, as well as when I came dorsum downwards the hall I flora ii naked toddlers dashing to a greater extent than or less their bedroom. I didn't desire to travel out them naked every bit they are nowhere nigh potty trained as well as so I got novel diapers, explained they involve to travel out their clothes on, as well as and so got them dressed. This distressed O greatly. He screamed, "Naked! Naked! Naked!" every bit he pulled on his shirt. He as well as so had an epic meltdown from which I could non recover him from. Forty-five minutes subsequently my hubby comes abode every bit I'm trying to acquire C to play inward the playroom piece I endeavor to acquire a screaming O to nap inward his bedroom. D is at nowadays on his 3rd or 4th episode of Magic School Bus. Hubby comes in, takes O from me, as well as tells me, "I've got this. Go shower." I took a ten infinitesimal shower. Ten. Minutes. That is all I needed to acquire clean, children. Why does it lead keep to live so difficult sometimes?

Emptying the dressers inward their bedroom

Hubby went dorsum to piece of work after I got out of the shower. I wanted to blow dry out my pilus as well as throw on some brand up, some other 10-15 infinitesimal procedure if I'm hurrying. Didn't happen. I did some to a greater extent than dorsum as well as forth betwixt the playroom as well as the bedroom. The toddlers escaped from the playroom as well as tore apart the kitchen. They were having so many meltdowns as well as beingness so impossible to command that I said, "Okay! Early naptime!" I pose them downwards for nap. They refused to remain inward bed as well as climbed over the gate. I pose them down. Again as well as over again as well as again. Until finally they barbarous asleep. I don't know why they caved as well as barbarous asleep, but they did. This is when I decided that Momma needed a writing intermission as well as so I sat downwards to write this weblog post. Over an hr later, I withdraw heed O yelling at the door, "Momma! Momma!" I worried that he would wake C upward so I went downwards the hall, cracked opened upward the door, as well as only stared at what I saw. C is sleeping behind the door (fully dressed alongside his blanket). O was standing butt naked inward the middle of a disaster zone. Every drawer is emptied, the contents scattered all over the flooring as well as piled on the chair. They pulled everything off their beds. The toy bin is upside down. Holy smokes. I lifted the naked O over the gate, unopen the door, as well as brought him out hither alongside me. He is at nowadays sitting at the tabular array eating a peanut butter sandwich wearing alone a diaper, large smiling plastered on his face.

Not every twenty-four hr menstruum has gone similar this since nosotros transitioned to toddler beds. Many lead keep though, which is why nosotros lead keep all been a niggling stressed. To acquire them into a routine, nosotros stayed abode for almost a calendar week as well as figured out a novel nap schedule. This pose us on the world's worst nap schedule. As my hubby wisely said, "At to the lowest degree they are on a nap schedule." C would travel downwards for a nap to a greater extent than or less 10:30/11:00 am as well as nap until 1:00/1:30 pm. O would travel downwards for a nap to a greater extent than or less 1:30/2:00 pm as well as nap until almost 3:30 pm. C would as well as so travel dorsum downwards for a nap to a greater extent than or less 4:00/4:30 pm as well as slumber until 5:30/6:00 pm. We were abode rotating naps all day. Once nosotros got them napping, nosotros started pushing dorsum C's morn nap, getting it closer to O's afternoon nap. This shortened C's 2nd nap. Now nosotros attempt to pose both toddlers downwards to a greater extent than or less 1:30/2:00 pm. The start twenty-four hr menstruum nosotros pose C downwards at this time, he slept for over 5 hours. I think he was exhausted from lack of sleep. Now they nap for roughly 2-3 hours, soundless shorter than C's pre-toddler bed nap of 4 to 4 as well as a one-half hours, but ameliorate than no nap at all.

We lead keep also had a divergence inward our wake upward time. In cribs, the boys went to bed for the black at 8 pm as well as woke upward to a greater extent than or less 7:45/8:00 am. I normally got them out of their cribs to a greater extent than or less 8:15/8:30 am. Now they are waking upward anywhere betwixt half dozen am as well as vii am. I am non for sure why so early. I suspect that O is waking upward early on as well as getting C up. I lead keep tried to either brand them hold off until vii am before I acquire them or for fifteen minutes. For instance, if they wake upward at half dozen am, I don't travel acquire them for an hour. If they wake upward at vii am, I brand them hold off for fifteen minutes. I'm *hoping* (<--fingers crossed) that I tin force their wake upward fourth dimension to at to the lowest degree 7:30 am. I'm non for sure if it volition occur or not. Even if nosotros can't force dorsum the wake upward time, nosotros are non waking upward whatsoever before than 7:00 am. Momma is not a morn person.

Both toddlers climbing over the babe gate


Besides naptime, the hardest piece of work of this whole procedure has been the ineffectiveness of the babe gates, at nowadays called "baby hurdles" at our house. Our garage is a babe gate graveyard. If y'all are looking to purchase babe gates, hither is a run downwards on how they volition produce when y'all lead keep toddlers:
  • Summer Infant Sure as well as Secure Extra Tall Walk Thru Gate: nosotros ain i of these. It industrial plant fine for infants, but all toddlers lead keep to produce is milk shiver the gate genuinely difficult as well as it volition eventually open. The to a greater extent than they produce this, the easier it is for it to open. This gate is much to a greater extent than of an warning system, really. "Oh, withdraw heed the gate? The toddlers made it through."
  • Safety 1st Perfect Fit Gate: nosotros own... 3 of these? Four if y'all count the i nosotros left at my parents' house. We bought the start ii (including the i at my parents' house) when our oldest was a toddler. It is the form alongside the holes inward it. It looks a lot similar this gate, but white. The holes brand it, essentially, a babe stone climbing wall and, permit me tell you, they are ever upward for the challenge. The adjacent ii nosotros bought were for the twins as well as they are the shine fancy looking version, similar inward the link. The toddlers are 26-months as well as only deadlift themselves over this gate. They perch themselves on the transcend to swing their legs over as well as travel downwards the other side (see higher upward picture). That is why nosotros telephone proper name upward it the babe hurdle.
  • Regalo Easy Step Walk Thru Gate: nosotros ain ii of these. This is the alone gate they haven't been able to acquire through when locked. You press the grip downwards as well as a tab slides over it. You lead keep to describe the carmine tab dorsum to release the handle, as well as so describe the grip upward to opened upward the gate. The ii measurement procedure is difficult for their niggling hands. It is also force per unit of measurement area mounted inward our doorways as well as they haven't felt bold plenty to endeavor climbing this one, peradventure because of the infinite inward the bars. Regardless, l-o-v-e this gate. Downside: nosotros oft trap our theatre guests inward rooms alongside this gate because it is trickier to opened upward and, if y'all don't lock it, they tin only elevator the grip as well as walk through. I think I country "remember to lock the gate" 800 times a day.
  • Carlson Extra Wide Walk Thru Gate alongside Pet Door: nosotros ain i of these, made past times the same people who did the Regalo gate, same wonderful latch. We haven't pose this i upward because it is every bit good broad for our doorways inward this house. I genuinely got this i free! Someone pose it on the side of the route alongside a "free" sign on it as well as I picked it upward i twenty-four hr menstruum on our means abode from church.
The swing gates are bully if y'all desire to travel out it upward long term, such every bit the i nosotros continue inward the hallway going downwards to the bedrooms. They are also easier to acquire through when carrying an infant (or two). The force per unit of measurement area gates are bully for doorways y'all won't work often, if y'all desire to travel out it upward as well as permanently block infants as well as pets from entering a room. The force per unit of measurement area gates are also bully for when fellowship comes over as well as y'all desire to block their kids from going to for sure parts of your home. I'll pose them upward for the afternoon if I desire the kids (and their parents) to know for sure areas are off limits, peculiarly when at that spot volition live lots of kids coming over, which tends to occur when y'all are friends alongside mothers of multiples. These force per unit of measurement area gates, though, alone dull our toddlers downwards from going inward or out of an area; they are so slow for them to climb over. Hands down, I dear the Regalo swing gate.

It has been a trying phase, most definitely. I experience similar nosotros lead keep finally reached some sort of routine, finally caught our residue as well as adjusted to our novel schedule. It was such a abrupt shift inward our daily routine. In "Terrible two's," I refer that these phases of maternity come upward inward waves. I don't desire to jinx it, but nosotros are figuring it out and, perhaps, getting the hang of having ii two-year olds inward toddler beds!

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