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[quote=Anonymous]OP, can you see if she can articulate what it is about the crib that makes her feel safer? We just went through this with my three-year-old, who had the same problem--except we needed his crib for his little brother, so he really had to move (we started the transition six months earlier!) First he said he wanted a guard rail on the bed, so DH built one for him. Then he wanted it on the wall side (?!?) so we turned the bed around. Finally we figured out that the issue was that for all this time, he's been stroking the slats on the crib to self-soothe himself to sleep, and he was reaching for them at night and not finding them and freaking out. Modified the guard rail to have slats like the crib and he was able to sleep in the bed, and hasn't said a thing about the crib in the two months since. Could there be something like this, where your DD has an attachment to the crib somehow, that you could identify and replicate to ease the transition?[/quote]
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