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My biological son moved from the crib to a toddler bed at about 1 year old. Our daughter who we adopted from Ukraine at the age of 17 months is in a crib (from the advice of other adoptive parents from a poll I did much like this a few months before we adopted) Thank God we chose the crib. She is not ready for a bed and probably won't be for quite awhile. Since they were in cribs in the orphanage they didn't have any limits or routine around bedtime. Just put them in the crib and let them go to sleep. We have since traveled with her and had her sleep on a bed in a few hotel rooms that haven't had cribs and its been a nightmare (also very difficult when we took her to Kiev for processing without a crib) She just didn't seem to "know" that she needed to stay in bed and of course she didn't understand English and what we were trying to tell her. Those first couple of nights we must have put her back on the bed about 30 times or more. She seems to find comfort in her crib and so that was the right choice for us. Good luck!
Cristin
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