Transitioning a 17 Month Old from Our Bed to His Crib

We did NOT do co-sleeping, so I can't speak from experience. But what my MIL did when she wanted her son (my husband) out of her bed when he was 2 yrs - she calls "Squeeze Play." He slept in themiddle of the bed. Each night they squeezed closer to him. He'd say "move over. I don't have any room." and they'd go on and on about what a 'big boy' he was and how "I don't have any room to move over on my side. You're just growing and growing into such a big boy...." They did that for a few nights that he got fed up not having any room and went to his bed on his own.

Just a thought.

We co-slept and wound up going to a toddler bed. My daughter was so upset by the crib and CYO that at 18 months she climbed out! Huge boom in minute #1...

With the toddler bed (mattress on a low platform), I would sit / lay down on the floor by her bed until she would fall asleep and then leave. If she woke up in the night (which she still does!) I would just go back in and we would start over.

She is now almost 3 and my husband is the bed time guy - she doesn't fuss and usually falls alseep shortly after lights out. When she has really bad dream she still comes to our room to climb in bed, but after a few minutes of cuddling I take her back to her room.

The process took awhile - I slept onthe floor for a month.. but we did it with NO crying.

Good luck!

I have a 17 mo old that has slept w me every night and finally I just bought a toddler bed and put it between my side of the bed and the wall I could still pat him if he woke up and in the morning he still woke up w me. I gradually moved the bed further and further until it was in the hallway and finally in his own room. We moved though and I brought him back in bed. Im a sucker but now he wants to sleep in his own bed.

Well, don't let him cry for 2 hours straight! Go in after 5 mins, then 10 mins, then 20 mins...pat him & tell him "time to sleep" and DON'T pick him up. It will be about 3-4 nights of HE&$ but he'll get it!
Crib is good til 3 if he's not climbing out so I would NOT do a toddler bed--it will be even tougher!
You can play a soft music CD on repeat in his room very softly for him.

We are going throught the same thing at our house Tiffany! We are tired too! I know we can get our 3 yo to sleep in her room. But, our 2 yo is another story :( He's always slept with me. I feel like if we had a week of decent sleep we could tackle the issue head on. We are just too tired, lol