WIBU to use a duvet in the cot bed?

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DD is 16m. She goes to sleep happily enough in her sleep bag in the cot, but 4 nights out of 7 she wakes up in the night and wants to come in bed with us. It's quicker and easier to plonk her in between us and everyone goes straight back to sleep.
She seems to like the snugglyness of our duvet and pillows, I have a duvet and cot bumper set I was given when she was born, and was considering trying her with a duvet instead of the sleep bag - that's OK at 16m isn't it?

Also WIB(V?)U to fold the bumper up and put it in a pillowcase for her? At the minute she screws up her blanky and stuffs it under her head in her sleep, so obviously finds having her head raised comfy.

Not sure if it's a daft idea or not!

It's fine for them to have a duvet and a pillow after 12 months. I tuck the duvet down the sides so it can't be pushed all the way down and leave them cold

That's what we did, it was fine.

Mine used quilts on cot beds ( with at least 1 side out) by about that age. I'd wonder about the weight of the quilt you have though if it came with bumpers is it a baby one? That might not be heavy enough to solve your problem. Mine had a 7tog quilt I think initially. And no I wouldn't use the bumpers as a pillow as it might come out and unravel...

I'd use a pillow though if she's stuffing something else under - just get a proper one.
I ditched sleeping bags once we got to the point of walking / sides down otherwise they are left doing the sack race

duvet and pillow are ok from 12 months. Heaviest tog duvet recommended is 4.5tog for cot bed/toddler bed

Thanks LittleOwl I hadn't thought of the tog rating, just checked and it's 4tog. We have NSH though so it's fucking tropical fairly warm overnight when they kick in, which should be ok I think.

Good point about unravelling too - I was thinking of a pillowcase inside a pillowcase with the open ends opposite each other iyswim but don't want to risk anything unnecessarily. I hate bumpers but seems such a waste to chuck them. Maybe I could sew them together...

We had a pillow and quilt from about 12 months. You can get ones specially sized for cot beds (they're sometimes called junior bed sets)

OK. Real pillow it is!

Cheers pixie - that's ideal

It's fine, although I brought a cot bed pillow and it was quite barrow so there was a gap at each side (like in a normal bed) that DD didn't like so we used a normal pillow at the moment.

We used cot bed size pillow and duvet as soon as DD figured out how to undo the poppers on her sleeping bag. She slept much better under her duvet.

I used this for my daughter’s cot bed : gro.co.uk/product/gro-to-bed/. The duvet cover zips into the mattress cover on both sides. It’s not cheap but it keeps them covered all night especially for toddlers who like to run marathons in their sleep.

My little girl was a horrible sleeper til 14 months when we got her a duvet and pillow. Slept through ever since, if she wakes up she can pull it back over herself too. IKEA do a really nice and reasonably priced little cot sized set, it's got a very thin pillow (about as thick as a 10 tog duvet).