What age did your DC stop using sleeping bags and had a duvet instead?

[ilikeyoursleeves]

My DS is 16 months and is nearly out of his current Grobags. I'm not sure whether to get new ones in the next size up or graduate to a duvet? I'm just worried he would wriggle under it or not be able to cover himself up again if the duvet fell off. What age did your DC start using a duvet? Oh, and when do you start introducing a pillow? Thanks.

[andyrobo237]

Well we have been using a lightweight duvet and a lightweight grobag for 8 months or so. However the grobag zip broke two night s ago, so he is now in the cot with a Duvet! Doesnt seem to bother him, but his not too wriggly!

Started with a pillow about 18 months as he had a bad cold and it helped a bit. He is jsut 2 BTW

[dontdillydally]

My ds loved his grobags as he grew I just bought the next size up.

So many people stress or rush to move to the next stage and put their kids in a bed.

My LO slept well and felt secure with his grobags. The grobag also stops them from climbing out etc..

My ds went in a bed at the age of 2.9yrs (he just loved his cot so why move him!). So as you can imagine he was quite long - but I just bought the largest size they do which Ithink was age 3-6 years....on the continent they have been using them for years and alot of kids sleep in them even in a bed hence the age/size of the largest one they do.

When I moved him to a bed, he choose his quilt and pillow and was absolutely fine. Dont change him unless he;s in danger or hates his grobag

[dontdillydally]

forgot to say my LO always kicked covers off and would wake in the night when he was cold hence thats the why I put him in grobags

[ten10]

I have just switched my DS out of his grobag to a cot quilt,
this was because he finally grew out of his grobag,
he has just turned 2.
I thought he would grow out of it much earlier but he seemed to slow down with his growth and it lasted a few months more than I thought it would.

At first he just threw the quilt out of his cot, as if it didn't belong there, so I had to introduce it gradually by us playing with it during the day and me putting over him when he had gone to sleep.

he does kick his covers off, but I think it will just take him a while to get used to it.
When I go to bed I go in and rearrange his covers, and if he wakes during the night I just go in put the covers back and he tends to go straight to sleep again.

[dontdillydally]

Grobags go up to the following ages

18months - 3 yrs
3yrs-6years
and 6-10 years old

You cna get them from Bump to 3 www.bumpto3.com/category.aspx?DISPLAYCAT=sleep&CAT=Products&CATGRY=baby_sleeping_bags

[Surfermum]

DD was over 3 I think. She was a real wriggler and when she grew out of growbags I put her in fleecy sleepsuits instead.

[EldonAve]

Mine were in grobags til 2
DC1 switched to a bed and a duvet
DC2 is in a cot with a blanket (she'd started to complain about the grobags)

[IwishIwasmoreorganised]

We swapped when ds moved into a bed at 2.2

He had a pillow in his cot from 13 months I think

[dasiychain]

My little boy of 19months has just started sleeping with a 4.5 tog duvet. With him it was not a case of growing out of his grobag but more case of chanaging every thing at one time.
Last week he started to try to get out of his cot so to save him falling out we brought him a 1/2 size 'big boy' bed and with that we got the duvet and pillow. For me and him one big chanage is easier to cope with then swaping the growbag4duvet then add pillow then cot4bed. One week of broken sleep or 3 weeks?
I would say for my little man he takes better to one big chanage and rewards for doing good in the moring far better then trying to sneak in small ones. Some children cope with chanage better then others, you now your know child best.
Good luck with what every you choose to do.

[hobnob57]

We put DD into a duvet and pillow set when we took the cot down into the cot bed at 18 months. The duvet is sideways on and tucked in both sides, and we haven't had many problems there.

We did it in summer in case she got cold. She tends to sleep with her top half exposed, but on cold nights does manage to get herself deeper under the duvet. For a while to begin with, she was so chuffed at being able to get in and out of bed, she slept behind the door after going over there to play with her reflection in the wardrobe mirrors. Didn't bother her or us, and as I said she sorted herself out when it got chillier.

[ilikeyoursleeves]

Thanks, I didn't realise Grobags went beyond 3 years old! He doesn't have any problems with his grobag so will just get the next size up and maybe think about changing to a duvet once he goes into a bed.

[pinkmagic1]

My 2 where just over 2 when they stopped sleeping in a bag! Can't imagine putting a 10 year old in one though!

[giddykipper]

DS decided about a month ago that he wouldn't go in his 'bag' any more, so he's under a duvet now. He's 22 months.

[Hassled]

My DCs never had growbags. Had sheets and a cot quilt, then a duvet.

[DaddyJ]

Our dd is 2 and 9 months and still in her grobag.
She is getting increasingly rebellious about it
possibly because at nap times she sleeps without
and enjoys getting out of bed by herself?
Not sure.

I once did give in and let sleep with cover only
but she woke up twice during the night having kicked off her covers.

I suspect we will wait until it's warmer to introduce a light duvet.

[wideratthehips]

both ds stopped using grobags at around the age of two....they were just getting in a fangle!

have used full sized duvets in their cot beds but very light ones (i think about 4 tog) and they have always been very comfy

when ds1 moved to a proper bed he also had a bedspread over the top of duvet which kept everything in place.

we live in a very old house and our heating goes off at about 8pm so its always quite chilly.

i think a pillow was introduced when i realised if ds1 was lying on his side his head was angled because of his widening shoulders