Yesterday, before we brought Emma home from daycare, I removed the front side of Emma's crib and put on the toddler bed rail. Only a couple of times has she made any attempt to climb out of her crib, but we decided that it was time for her to move up to the toddler bed. Maybe it will help her sleep in other beds when we are out of town. When she got home from daycare, we showed her the bed. She seemed fine with it, climbing into it. She even sat down to "read" one of her books shortly before it was time for bed. However, when it was finally time to go to bed, she put up a huge fight! It took about an hour before we could get her to even sit in bed, and I had to be in her room with her, with my head lying at the bottom of the bed. Eventually, after much loud screaming, she settled down and went to sleep.
She ended up sleeping through the entire night and managed to get herself out of bed when she was done sleeping. We opened her door around 6:30 this morning, after we had heard some noise coming from her room through the baby monitor. At that time, she must have been standing near the door, because she came right out and greeted us.
After all of the difficulties we had getting her to go to bed last night, and the fact that she often screams and puts up a protest when it is time for a nap, I thought that nap time today might not go so well. However, I had no reason to worry. She went down for her nap just fine on her own today.
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