My daughter is two now and about ready to get a ‘big girl’ room. She’s already in a toddler bed but we are still using the crib bedding and that theme. With her new furniture, we are going with a different, ‘big girl’ theme that will carry her into her teen years with little work to personalize.
So the question comes in here: DO I KEEP THE CRIB BEDDING OR SELL IT? Here’s my mental debate.

A: She’s our first baby. I spent months picking out the *perfect* crib bedding and bedroom theme. I spent hours painting and applying decals to her room, a labor of love, be assured. Its her first bedding, the thing I am going to most associate with her as a newborn. I should store it forever and offer it to her when she is older. Its in pristine condition and I would store it and make sure it stayed that way. (no leaky basements or dusty attics)

B: Its was a very expensive and still desirable bedding set. We went to the nines and made everything match. Down to the wipes container! I still have extra wall decals and a gallon of color matched paint. It would be a complete bedroom except for the furniture. (which I would never sell, much less buy a used crib) The money made from it would more than cover the price if new ‘big girl’ twin bedding.

So, I’m wanting some opinions as to what others would or have done in my situation. Did you keep it and store it, sell it or give it away to someone who needed it. What was your logic? Thanks!!
I won’t keep it for another child. I don’t agree with that, I would do the entire process over for another child.
I’m pretty sure I’m just gonna have to sell it. I see the logic in selling it but the only reason I would keep it is purely emotional.
(BTW, I do have the bedding from when I was a baby, I would use it if my husband didn’t insist on trains for a boy {I was suppose to be a boy})

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I’m 14, female and I still sleep with my baby blanket. I mean, I can sleep without it with no problems at all but I dunno, I just sort of like it

And yeah people say that it’s things like trauma that makes you cling onto security items but I can’t remeber ever having anything traumatic happen in my life.

So any ideas of why? And just wondering if lots of people sleep with their security items into their teen years?

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For my first child, I bought a "Million Dollar Baby" crib (the Emily model), and this is the description:

"Stylish solid pine crib accommodates child from infancy through teen years. Static side, with no moving parts, allows mom to take baby out of crib with little effort. Adjustable 4-level mattress spring system. Includes daybed conversion guard rail, plus full-size headboard and footboard."

Should I go ahead and buy another one like this for my second baby, and just convert the Emily crib I have now into a toddler bed? And when exactly can a baby start sleeping in a toddler bed? I am hoping that as my baby gets older, she might want to snuggle with us in bed and sleep with us. She has definitely not been a cuddly type at all, she hates being hold in bed, it seems as if she thinks she’s being held within her will and constrained!

Well, anyway, should I just buy a regular toddler bed for the older baby, or should I just get another crib that converts? What did you do?

Thanks for any and all advice.

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