I got the same problem too. When my daughter半夜醒來唔見我, she will cry and request to sleep with me and come back to my bedroom. What can I do?? Shall I continue or give up??
Before sleeping, I will 陪她上新床睡覺, she said OK and promise will not cry at mid-night. But actually, she cannot.
When I moved my girl from BB床 to 兒童床, I let her to take nap in the afternoon in 兒童床 for a month for her adaption.
Then, tried to slept throughout the whole nite by accompanying her (just sitting aside), storytelling, singing hymns before she slept. Of course, I had praised her that she grew elder & had a big bed. And I had decorated the bed & room with growing cartoon stickers in the dark with her together. She enjoyed much & delighted to sleep in the new bed.
If you want to keep the BB床 for the new born BB, better to move the elder one well in advance to the 兒童床 & unfastened the BB床 for 1 to 2 months. Then, when new BB comes, the BB can sleep in the BB床 and the elder one will not have hard feeling that the BB gets her BB床 & let her to sleep alone in the new 兒童床.
Hi Miankie's Mommy,
my daughter transition to a toddler bed when she is 26months old. And she transition in 1 day without any problem because of 1 trick. I bought a toddler bed with her favourite cartoon character on it. In your case, you can perhaps buy some bedsheet with her favourite character on it. Since then, she refuses to sleep in the crib and wants only the new bed.
Since my daugher has been sleeping on her own for a long time (even when she was still sleeping in her crib), i.e. falling asleep on her own without my help, she never comes to me at night if she wakes up and not find me there. Therefore, you need to teach her to sleep on her own, i.e. walk out of the room when she is still awake and let her soothed herself to sleep. Then, even if she wakes in the middle of the night, she will fall back to sleep on her own.