21 Mth Old Just Figured Out How to Get Out of Crib!

Crib tent. It's a little expensive but works for my 30 month old twins. They actually asked to be zipped up in their tent at night. They are not ready for a big boy bed. I'll be switching closer to three.

Definitely put him in a toddler bed. My son did that at 18 months and we changed his sleeping arrangements immediately. He is almost 2 and is more interested in sleeping in his new bed than he ever was in the crib. I feel that after we read books & do the bed time routine he is more willing to get up in his bed and fall asleep; rather than sticking him in the crib & being confined. We will still encounter them waking in the night for years to come, just refine your routines as your intuition tells you. Is he going to bed too early, did he eat enough, is it hot/cold in the room, etc. My son has bad dreams sometimes & now i can go in and sit next to the bed tohelp him back to sleep, it's so much easier. Hope this helps.

N.,

With the night waking, he may be teething. My son, also 21 months started waking up crying at around 11 pm for a couple nights. I'd go in give him Motrin, and put him back in his bed. After a couple nights of this, I decided to give him Motrin before bed. He stopped waking up in the middle of the night the next night. I stopped giving him the medince two days later, and now he has four molars!

You must purchace a net that ties over the crib. This is very important as he will get hurt.

Getting up in the middle of the night could haVE STARTED FROM something you did. Maybe when he was sick etc he woke and you responded?? If so or if not you have to let him be or this willbecome a nightly ritual for him and YOU.
nighttime is for SLEEPING:)

You don't want him to get hurt, so you either need a crib tent or move him to a toddler bed. The crib we have just converted into a toddler bed by removing the side. We just moved our son (24 m) to a toddler bed and the first week was a challenge but now he is sleeping through the night no problem. And we let him help pick out the sheets (Cars - his fav) so that really helped with the initial transition.

Good Luck

I have a crib tent on my son's crib and it keeps my sanity! He is used to it and doesn't know any different.
I didn't on my older daughter's crib and it was a nightmare always worrying. Both my kids are "active". I got it from babies r us but seen them online.
You can then sleep train him. The book Healthy Sleep Habits Happy Child really helped my sister and my family figure out every sleep issue.

Get a crib tent - Babies R Us. works wonders and I presented it as a "camping in your crib" tent.

Good luck!

My son started climbing out of his crib at 18 months. So we moved him into a twin bed after a month of him climbing out. He never got hurt or fell, he just kept climbing out like an agile monkey :D!

I we thought about a toddler bed, but for us it wasn't worth the money seeing as they only use the toddler bed for a few short years. So we bought a new mattress set and found a simple wood frame at a local thrift store. He LOVES his Big Boy Bed. It took a couple of weeks for him to figure out that he had to stay in bed (lots of putting him back in before he actually fell asleep). But since then he has been fine. He is now 3. And since he has been in a regular bed, he has no problems sleeping in a regular bed at hotels or anyplace else that we go. We also put up one of those cheap removeable wood gates on his door only at nighttime to prevent him from roaming the house in case he did get up at night. He can now climb over the gate and take it down himself, put he still falls asleep faster when the gate is up (I guess seeing it there is kind of like a security thing for him) so we still put it up.

Sounds like your baby is growing up. And now he can pass his crib onto your new baby.

S.