Transition from sleeping bag to duvet - how/when to do it?

[ellesabe]

A bit of background...dd1 is 20mo and dc2 is due in November.
We live in a v small 2 bed flat so the dcs will share a room and we have ordered some 'bunk-cots' to arrive in September. Toddler will go straight into the bottom bunk as a bed, rather than a cot. The baby will go above her in a cot once it moves out of our room.

I'm fairly happy with the idea of having dd in a bed and think she will cope well with it but I'm not sure whether to keep her in a sleeping bag until she's settled in the bed or whether to introduce the duvet when she's still in her cot. Or do I just introduce the duvet at the same time as the bed?
She also still has a dummy to sleep with and I'm not sure at what point I should try to get rid of it. I don't really want to enforce too many changes all at once, especially with the upheaval of a new sibling!

I know a lot of this is probably just up to me to decide what is best for dd, but I wondered what other people's experiences were of this.

SImilar gap to mine - although ds was evicted from his bedroom for the baby! He went from a cot-bed in one room, straight to a single bed in a different room. He only fell out a couple of times. We made a big thing about his new bed and new room though, and played up how exciting it was.

Now's probably the ideal time to try it. WE started with ds in his sleeping bag, but it was painful watching him shuffling to get anywhere. We gave the duvet a try, reasoning that if he kicked it off, at least he wouldn't freeze.

Ds was much more adaptable than I thought, and we've never looked back. Don;t know about the dummy, but I think I read on here somethign about leaving it in a bag on the washing line 'for the fairies/dragons/monsters.'

I used sleeping bags on both my DDs and I found that the time to lose the sleeping bags is the time when your DCs say they want a proper duvet.

My DDs both did this at about age 2 and 3 months - they were just very very clear about it. I put both of mine in adult beds with bed rails at age about a year because we had an oddly-sized (narrower than usual) cot and my very long DDs were getting themselves wedged across it. On moving into a bed, the bags seemed to 'train' them out of the idea of getting out of bed and exploring once they were in - certainly neither of them were night-time wanderers/sneaker-downstairers.

So I'd leave the bag situation, introduce the bed and then change to duvet when your DD asks to.

Our DD went from the cot into a big bed and we used a duvet which zipped up the sides so she couldn't fall out.

It was this one from Grobag. Grobag Duvet

She used it for ages!

LadyFErret that sounds fab, they didn't have those in my day...

2.7 y.o. DS still has a sleeping bag - age 18-36 months. You can buy the next size up. He's been on a single mattress on the floor since 4 months though so we've not had any change of bed issues. He still rolls around way too much for me to want him under a duvet - I value my sleep too much. :)

bunk cots¿?
They really have invented everything.