Duvets and pillow - what age?

[Liskey]

DD is 21 months old though only just 9kg. At what age can we look at getting her a duvet/pillow? At the moment she's in 6-18 month sleeping bags.

She's had a heavy cold recently and I was thinking that sleeping with her head raised might help her breath a bit.

[Seona1973]

they are both considered ok from 1 year. Ds likes olbas oil on a hanky put into his pillow case at night as it helps him to breathe (when he has a blocked nose). We also use a plug in karvol vaporiser.

[bessie26]

DD1 got a duvet & pillow when she moved into her bed aged 2, but I think they are fine from age 1.

Re the snotty nose, have you tried books under the head of her bed? We (I) love olbas oil too & have just bought a "vapourisor" which appears to be a small fan which blows over a stick soaked in olbas oil!

[Liskey]

Thank for the replies.

DD (and I) have both been having olbas oil on a tissue in our rooms as I've also caught the cold. Its good poor DD does seem whenever she gets a cold to start coughing and then be sick in her bed a lot which doesn't help her. I might try raising her bed a bit with books.

Stupid question but where can you get pillows/duvets for toddlers from? Just mothercare?

[Seona1973]

I just used a normal sized flattish pillow and a single sized duvet although mine didnt get a duvet until they went into a bed - they were in grobags until then. Ds stayed in a grobag until 2 1/2 years but had a pillow from before then

[bessie26]

DD1 is in a toddler bed but has a single sized pillow & duvet as i wasn't sure how ling she'd be in it & didn't want to have to (potentially) buy all new bedding in a few months time!
I got a cheapy "value" pillow from the supermarket (as I didn't want a big thick one) and a 2.5tog duvet from Next (coz I wanted a light one for the summer)

[BsshBossh]

Just to hi-jack here, what tog duvet do you recommend for winter and toddler sized bed - 4.5 or 7?

[CurlyCasper]

My daughter (15 months) has a sleeping bag and standard pillow combination, which is great because she is sick in her cot when she coughs too hard as well. And the Olbas oil definitely works.

[Liskey]

Thanks for all the replies.

I might be looking a pillow this weekend then. Her cold is much improved now anyway - though I'm very bunged up!

I was wondering the same as BsshBossh actually - what tog for a cotbed? As the sleeping bags all seem so thin.

[Seona1973]

the maximum recommended tog for a cotbed is 4.5 tog whereas for a single bed it is 10.5 tog (something to with the relative surface area covered by the child)