We Bought Another Crib...

After a lot of discussing, we decided that Lorelai loves being in her crib...and we love it too. We decided to buy a used crib for Lorelai and put the new baby in her crib. Why? Well because we already planned the new nursery decor around Lorelai's old crib.

I tried not to buy doubles of things with the new baby arriving, but this is one of those things that even if it helps me get 2 more nights sleep (and I suspect it will give me much more than that) it will be worth the $70 for the used crib. This way we can take out time and transition her when she is ready.

She was so excited to get a new crib that when we built it and put her in to "try it out" she ran around in circles for a good long while before she would let us take her back out. Overall, a great transition experience. The toddler bed will come, but not until she is ready to move into it.

Did you move your oldest out of the crib before your new one arrived? Are you glad you did it? If not, are you glad you waited?

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Amanda Ellis said…

We did move the big sibling out of their crib each time we brought home a new baby. I think what worked for us was the fact that there was an older sibling as the role model for sleeping. Boy 1 was 5 when Boy 2 was born so he was already in his big boy bed. Boy 2 was 3 when Boy 3 was born. However Boy 2 was still sleeping in his crib at 3 years old because he never ever tried to climb out of his bed thankfully! So he was excited to transition. When Boy 4 was born, Boy 3 was only 16 months old so he stayed in his crib while Boy 4 co-slept with me until he was about 14 months old. Then we did a HUGE bed transition where everyone upgraded to a new bed (twin bed, toddler bed and then crib). Now we have Girl 1 in a bassinet in our bed until we eventually rebuild that old faithful crib again :-)

**Hope that wasn't too confusing! Lots of boys in the house!

August 15, 2018 at 9:03 AM

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