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Sleep Safety
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The good news: SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome) is no longer a concern now that your child is a toddler, and younger toddlers tend to stay put in their cribs. The bad news: As your child's second birthday approaches, some children may start trying to climb out of their cribs. This can be unnerving for parents who don't want to hear "things" go bump in the night.
But don't rush to move your climber out of his crib. "Many parents switch from a crib to a bed too early," says Jodi Mindell, Ph.D., a pediatric sleep researcher and author of "Sleeping through the Night: How Infants, Toddlers and their Parents Can Get a Good Night's Sleep." She says most 2-year-olds don't have the impulse control needed to stay in bed -- most kids don't develop it until sometime between...
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If it is time to move to a toddler bed smaller beds
close to the floor or mattresses situated on the floor without the bed frame
make a fall out of bed a little less painful. Bed rails also help and can be
used if your child moves around a lot in his sleep. If your problem is not
falling out of bed but staying in bed, let your child know that once they are
in bed, they stay in bed until morning. They may come to you with every excuse
why they can't sleep. Just march them back into their room, tuck them back in
bed and let them know that even if they can't sleep, they have to lie in bed
until morning. Sooner or later that get up out of bed game will end and they
will stay in bed with the exception of occasional bad dreams or bump in the
night scares.
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