Changing from sleeping bag to blanket. How?

[Bayliss1]

My dd is 13 months old and is getting too big for the sleeping bags. She has slept in one from being a couple of days old (she hated being swaddled!!). A couple of times we have placed a blanket over her for extra warmth on cold nights and she has woken up hysterical because she has not known what the blanket was! I think it is getting to the time when she needs to be sleeping beneath blankets because she is in the largest sleeping bag available. Does anyone have any advice on how to change from the sleeping bag to blankets?? And how do I ensure she stays beneath the blankets?? (we live in a cold house so am worried she will get cold!!) Thanks for reading my post!! :)

Are you sure she's in the biggest size? Mine stayed in theirs til they went into beds at 2.6y - there are loads of 18-36 months available and actually I think Grobag do a few in even bigger sizes.

Sorry, I have no idea how to get her sleeping under a blanket? Maybe a thin duvet with a cover in her favourite book/tv character.

Just wanted to let you know that if it doesn't work John Lewis, amongst other places, do sleeping bags up to 36months. 6-18months and 18-36months.

yep what megbusset said you can get grobags upt to 18-36mths easily and on their website they do them for 3-6yrs!

they normally come in 0-6mths, 6-18mths, 18-36mths and then the big ones for 3yrs plus, you can get them in john lewis, tk maxx and online easily :)

ds stayed in one until he was 2½ years old. He had an 18-36 months one.

My long DD was in a up to 36 sleeping bag up to 2.6, too. Got them in a second hand toy shop and added extra blankets over the winter. Still had a bit of growing room, but we stopped using it when we moved her into a bed. She never had any problems with blankets as she was used to having them in the pushchair, in the car and even on the sofa.

Mine went from a sleeping bag to a cot quilt. I think because the quilt was bigger than blankets and less easy to kick off my 18month DD didn't really notice the change.

I have no idea. One night he kicked his way out of his sleeping bag, popping the shoulder poppers and wiggling out. He went under a duvet the next night and has had one ever since!

He was around 1.5 or so.

I have a sleeping bag, from france. I was given it by bil. I will check the make on it in the AM when baby is out of it. It fitted my daughter until she was nearly 4! has straps and zips to make it bigger of smaller, its fab!I washed it yday and it wasn't dry in time for bed. Little one woke up twice in the night cold. Thankfully it was dry for tonight.
My dd is now 5 yrs and kicks the covers off even if they are tucked in! Very warm pjs r the way to go, or them fleecey all in ones over a cotton sleepsuit

I didn't realise the sleeping bags went up to such large sizes! I'll have a look on the web to see what I can find in preparation for her growing out of the one she's in now! Thank you for all your responses!! I think I had the idea that she should be using blankets/baby duvet by now!! Dd is my first child and I'm still learning!! Thank again!!

Grobag and Slumbersac do bags for well over 18mo. We've just changed DS, 2.8, over from a sleeping bag to a duvet as he's moved into a bed. We kept him at bags at first but now he's under the duvet in a fleecy sleep suit (I think the fleecy suit give him the security the bags did).

Also we found that as DS became more wriggly we had to change from the bags with poppers at the shoulder (which he could escape from) to ones with a zip at the front.

Honestly, keep her in a sleeping bag for as long as you can. i think they are one of the 21st century's greatest inventions!!!!!!!

TK Maxx (round here anyway) always has lots of bigger sizes of sleeping bags. We used until DS was 2.5 but he could have stayed in (size wise) for ages. By which point we got him used to the idea of a duvet by hiding under the duvet and playing games whenever he came into bed with us on a weekend morning. Then got him his own, with own bedding etc, and played with that in his room for a few days, before introducing to his bed. The duvet wasn't an issue tbh, but he threw the pillow out of the bed for the first 3 weeks!

Keep 'em bagged as long as you possibly can . Apart from anything else, it makes it much harder for them to climb out of the cot. (Incidentally, DS2 tried the whole wriggling-out-and-undoing-the-poppers thing too - I just sewed one of the shoulders permanently closed - mwa-ha-ha-haaaa.)

DD2 is 9 although small for her age and was using one last summer in our caravan so they must go up to about age 6 or 7.

If you want to get your DD used to blankets anyway you could introduce one in her play. Make a pretend bed with cushions on the floor and give her the blanket to snuggle under. You could enhance it by reading a 'bedtime'story etc to encourage her to stay under the blanket and get used to the new sensation.

Once she's played with it a few times just put it over her at bedtime when she's awake and she'll probably accept it with no issues.

Bayliss also check out whether there are any upcoming NCT sales in your area. I've picked up several sleeping bags there for around £3 and they tend to have all sizes. Not new, but in vgc, and very clean.

I love your idea Timandra! I think I'm going to try that one! Thank you!! :)

Thanks everyone! I'm going to keep dd in the sleeping bags but use Timandra's suggestion, especially when dd has a tendency to be very sicky when teething so may one day run out of clean sleeping bags and need dd to sleep under a blanket for the night!!!