Wilf's new bed (and a little room tour)

Following on from this post on Wilf's sleep, Tom and I decided that we needed a change. Wilf has always resisted sleeping in the cot and for the past twenty months has really spent most nights either in our bed or the spare bed in his room (with one of us in it too).

It was clear he was used to sleeping on a mattress so it stood to reason that maybe we should ditch any attempts at a cot altogether and take the plunge and move him into his own 'big boy' bed. 

We were very kindly offered this bed from Kiddicare. We knew the height wouldn't be an issue as he is used to sleeping in our high bed and he can scale the upright ladders at the playground pretty well too. The only think we were worried about was climbing down in the night so we got a little two step ladder from IKEA and he is able to wizz up and down brilliantly! 

The 'Wilfryd bunting' was made by my friend Kimberly for my babyshower all that time ago, isn't it pretty! The canvas is something I painted back when I had just left uni, funny to think I am now using it for my son's bedroom! 

The bed comes with the amazing den which now houses Wilf's treasure chest of toys, a couple of books and a few teddies. We have been playing 'knock knock, come in!!' and pretend tea parties too! It's really funny, pre-motherhood whenever I romanticised parenting it was always things like this, tucking him in his big bed, playing games in dens. I never really envisioned the 'baby' bit and am very much enjoying toddlerhood!

I feel like Wilf's room is finished now he has his own bed, it feels like such a light and colourful space! We still need to get him some sort of night light I think. I've been toying with the idea of a grow clock, anyone had any luck with that? I mean he still wakes up at 5am so anything that could push it forward a little would be ace!

 The tree I painted Wilf in pregnancy, some of the leaves are letters I wrote him each week!

The play kitchen Tom made Wilf for his first birthday!

(yep the Y has mysteriously gone missing from that train set..)

It has been around five days since we moved him to the bed and although I don't want to jinx anything (touch wood!) it's been a great improvement! After his routine we now tuck him up with Panda and little ted and leave the room and..he just goes to sleep! It's a bit bonkers really the difference it's made but he LOVES the process of climbing up snuggling in his duvet and gathering up his softies. He still wakes through the night (of course!) but generally not until around 10.30 where Tom will go in stroke his head and tuck him in again. After this he will wake again a couple of times and we will take it in turns to cuddle up with him (why we needed a single bed not a toddler bed!) and he will be fine until around 5.30-6am when he gets up for the day.

I think from next week we are going to try and turn those 12-2am wake ups to just comforting him to settle without us getting in but for the first week I think we have had major improvements.

Wish us luck!

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