DS (3!) demanding his covers back on every bloody 20 mins - how do we stop this?!

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He's 3 and 4 months and last night was terrible. He went to bed at 7pm (knackered) but proceeded to arse about for 3 bloody hours. The main thing is he kicks his duvet off and then demands that one of us puts it back on. (What makes it worse is that sometimes if I go in he'll demand his dad, and vice versa.) He does thrash about quite a lot in his sleep and the last few nights we've had to go and tuck him in about 5 times through the night, it's like having a newborn again!

I've though about getting a sheet and tucking him in properly with that and putting the duvet on top but not convinced that would fix things. I'm tempted to just leave him to it but then he'd just shout for hours and wake up DS1.

Any thoughts please?!

we used this with ds duvet gripper

La redoute do an all in one sheet duvet that sort of zips them ib ifykwim....

I am surprised at all the suggestions to buy something else - madness IMO. He is just playing up and needs to be told to stop, what is so hard about pulling a duvet back over you? DD is 3.3 and manages fine.

I am not saying it will be easy to start with but you need to put your foot down over this OP.

That duvet gripper looks good.

You're right, doitnicely. He's a right little bugger - and it's mainly DH who goes to him for a quiet life. I'm much more strict. He's been a nightmare tonight, insisting he wants a drink but his brother's, not his, so he was in and out of DS1's room over and over having a huge strop. I ended up having to pu lt him in his room with the door shut ( he can't open it yet) and just leaving him to have a tantrum for an hour. I never did controlled crying with either of them but now he's three and just being an arse it'd the only way I can deal with him. without throwing him out of the window.

Duvet gripper is brilliant. Stopped DD (5) from losing it in the night. I'm even thinking of getting a king sized version for us as DP tends to hog it!

Single duvet turned sideways and tucked down both sides of the bed. At bedtime sit with him and demonstrate how to pull it back up (get him to practise it too) and explain it's up to him to do it now. When mine occasionally bugger about at night (playing up rather than genuinely upset/ill) I threaten removal of one toy every time I have to go back in to tuck them in.

I used a double sleeping bag over the bed, was a bit like the zip bedding but it was an improvisation at 4 in the morning.