How do you keep them covered up at night ? Help with cold ds needed please....

[FairyMum]

My 2 year-old ds is hates being covered by blankets at night and always kicks them off. I find myself waking several times a night to cover him and I always find that he is really cold. Our house is kept cool at night and we sleep with windows open all winter. The rest of us covers up though, but what do we do with our ds? Anyone with any advise ? Do you all keep the house warm at night ? do you know where you can buy some really warm pyjamas?

He doesn't seem bothered by the cold at all and always kicks his blankets off on purpose. Could it be that he is actually warm, eventhough he feels cold ?

Could he not have a sleeping bag they do nice animal ones that he might love to stay in. Do they do those baby cosey toe things for two year olds ?

Oh and mother care do fleece babygrows that go up to age four

My dd1 had pink babygrows for years. It kept her warm because she would never keep the covers on. It stopped her waking as much too. I have baby sleeping bags barely used. She could not cope with the lack of freedom.

Great idea! I am rushing to Mothercare after work to by warm clothing. Hopefully they have some with animal prints on. He is very selective with what he wears like most 2 year-olds.....sigh....

I can't see myself getting up to DS unless he actually woke up himself which unfortunately he is doing. Might dig out last year's sleeping bag for him because that really worked a treat.

It sounds a bit like yours doesn't want the covers and isn't noticing the cold. Could you put him socks on. Also when you check is temp do you check his extremities or slip yur hand down the back of his pjs.

We have the same problem with our 2 yr old ds and have resorted to the Mothercare bags every winter! They do Buzz Lightyear and A red Michael Shumacker type one this year. Primark also do them but seem not to have them in stock until all extremities have been frozen off! I think they kick off blankets because they can - often I have seen ds trying to pull them back up and not succeeding (this in his sleep)so I end up going in 3-4 times a night and wrapping him up again!PS thye look really cute in the sleepsuits - beware you won't be able to resist a million big cuddles before bedtime!

I find sleeping bags are the answer to most night time sleep problems! We're also fresh-air-freaks, so if the kids seem too cold even with the sleeping bags then we either add blankets on top (harder to kick off through a bag) or extra layers inside, or - if we've misjudged and it's very cold - a cardigan over the bag, which we can put on them when we go to bed at night without waking them. Urchin (www.urchin.co.uk?) do an excellent one with removable sleeves, twice the price of most, but you effectively get 3 different weight bags depending on how you use it.

I get grobags from www.grobag.com

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My 2.11 yr ds is exactly the same - we have managed the last few (three? lost count already) winters by using the fleece sleepsuits, however these didn't actually solve the problem as he still kicked the blankets off, and you can't really use the sleepsuits when it gets warmer. This autumn I have bought him a duvet and I've found this has really helped. It's much more substantial than blankets and so is harder to kick off. I'll let you know what happens when we turn the cot into a cot bed though (imminent !)

I said before that i had fleece babygrows from mothercare, i just looked now and there from BHS. IT DID TAKE ME A LONG TIME TO FIND ANY BIG ENOUGH SO GOOD LUCK

Sorry about the caps lock, i wasnt making a huge point!

Some of you said that moving to a bed and duvet helped. DS moved to a bed in May and had a proper full-size duvet and still kicks it off and can't get it back. Since he is still in night-time nappies I am considering reverting to the sleeping bag.

why not wear really warm sweatpants/sweatshirt over their pj's? I would have thought that 2 year olds would feel too constricted by a sleeping bag? Hope your little one stays warm whatever you decide!
hana

sleeping bags.... grobag do them up to two or two and a half....that is all we have ever used with dd ( 14 months old) she would never keep blankets on when she was in hospital - once home straight into sleeping bags both summer and winter.

Like eidsvold would definately recommend Grobag, u can order over the www and they go up to 36 months.

Definitely go for grobags. They go up to 36 months.

Sleeping / gro bag definitely. Ds (26mo) loves his so much he refuses to take it off when he gets up in the moring. He has perfected the art of shuffling around in it & looks like something from the Addams Family...