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Offline Jessi

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Big Bed Transition-Gate on door?
« on: September 17, 2005, 03:39:28 am »
I'm going to be moving ds into a bbb soon and am wondering how many of you, when you did that, put a gate on the door or just closed the door.  I feel like I need to do something, because I definitely don't want him wandering the house in the early am or something.  Anyway, just wondering what you all did.  Thanks!
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« Reply #1 on: September 17, 2005, 03:47:30 am »
I got one of those doorknob shields that wouldn't let him turn the knob.  It worked wonders!  I know lots of people that used gates though, too.  Just try whatever sounds easiest for you.

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« Reply #2 on: September 17, 2005, 03:53:35 am »
X. was 15 months when he moved out of the crib so at that time, I only had to close the door.  When he learned to open them I went to the door knob thingy.  And when he figured that out we went to the gate.  In our last move we quit gating him in and now we have a bed guest in the wee hours of the mornings.  Hmmmm....

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« Reply #3 on: September 17, 2005, 07:35:50 am »
We use a baby gate, we close it when we put H up to bed, and then open it when we go to bed.
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« Reply #4 on: September 17, 2005, 07:46:58 am »
We shut the door which dd can't open (yet).  She has always slept with the door shut, so it's not a new thing to her.
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« Reply #5 on: September 17, 2005, 23:32:12 pm »
We'd always shut her door.  I put a gate up in the hallway so she couldn't go too far, but I still have her baby monitor on too.
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Big Bed Transition-Gate on door?
« Reply #6 on: September 18, 2005, 03:36:21 am »
Thanks ladies!  I don't think I feel comfortable closing the door, so I'll probably use the gate.  DS has a short hallway to his room with a door at the end, so I'll just close that one while we're all up.  Thanks for the input! :)
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« Reply #7 on: September 18, 2005, 04:25:11 am »
We moved Grif to a big bed at 12 months and shut the door. A gate didn't work for us because he shared a room with Brayton and:

1. Brayton needed to get out of the room during the night to potty.

2. Brayton needed to get out of the room in the morning and not wake up Griffin or me.

3. Griffin is a super light sleeper, and if the door was open too much noise was coming in the room.

4. Griffin could climb over the gate we had anyway.

When Griffin would wake up, he would knock on the door (and by knock I mean beat on it with his head and kick it :) ) and we would come let him out. When he learned how to open door knobs, we moved him to his own room and put a child lock on the inside of the door. He still knocks when he is ready to get up.

I think if Griffin wasn't such a monkey we would have just used a gate. :)
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« Reply #8 on: September 18, 2005, 04:46:24 am »
Gosh, we just leave the door open & if ds comes out (only once before 6am _ he's been in the bed 3 weeks - we have just taken him back into his room & told him he doesn't come into Mummy & Daddy's room until the light goes on... we have his light on a timer. This morning I heard him talking away & then he came in & I looked at the clock & it was 6.45am... which is when the timer is set for.
I guess I should count myself lucky!  Although he does call out for me most nights.
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« Reply #9 on: September 18, 2005, 04:49:37 am »
I moved my 19 month old in with my 3 1/2 year old earlier this year.  They share a full-size bed.  Whenever the 19 month old would wake up or stir, instead of just going back to sleep, she would jump out of bed and come to our room.  She also started waking at 5:30am every day.  I almost went bonkers that week.  So, we put up a baby gate before she went to bed one night so she saw it go up.  The first time she got up that first night, she cried.  I went to her and told her to go back to bed, night-night time, etc.  She threw a massive fit and eventually crawled back in bed and went to sleep.  That ended it and we dismissed using the gate after a few nights.  It was a very quick fix for keeping her in the bed.  We don't have stairs and I was not worried about her wondering the house....just waking us and her sister up repeatedly.
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« Reply #10 on: September 18, 2005, 05:23:00 am »
We keep dd's door shut for fire safety reasons.
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« Reply #11 on: September 21, 2005, 16:39:40 pm »
We moved Ava into a bed at 12 months as she couldn't deal with the cot any longer.
For a while we just pulled the door to, and put a gate at the top of the stairs.
However, this just resulted in her wandering through to us in the middle of the night and wanting to climb into our bed.

We now have a gate on her door as well, so when she wakes we can at least just turn her around and guide her back to her own bed.....
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« Reply #12 on: August 15, 2008, 02:51:55 am »
We put a gate and shut the door.  Even at 17 months she could manipulate those safety covers.     
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