Introducing pillow and blanket

[SassyPants87]

When did you introduce pillow and blanket for your little one? DD is 22 months and still content using sleeping bags. Thinking of introducing it soon as it’s getting colder and want her to get used to pillow and blanket before eventually moving to bed.

Also what tog would you recommend? We’re in a new build so it doesn’t ever get too cold in the house. The lowest tog I can find is 4 tog would this be okay? Thinking to implement before winter comes

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Just makes me nervous as mine shuffles around and doesn't just sleep in one place 😂

I really wouldn't introduce it as we get in the winter months and they always uncover themselves and wake because they get cold and can't put the cover back on their own.

If he's happy in sleeping bags, no rush to change!

Next spring you can introduce a duvet and he'll be mire dexterous to put it back himself if he's wiggled away from it. I have done "duvet training" with my DCs by asking them to show me how to cover themselves again and again if the duvet falls!

Good luck

I gave mine a toddler pillow at 2 years. We switched from sleeping bags to a toddler duvet at just turned 3 years just before we switched from cot to toddler bed.

Mine only came out of sleeping bags around 3 when they moved to a toddler bed. The bags are plenty warm enough for them and more reliable as duvets can end up all over the place. But when you do switch a toddler duvet tends to be 4 or 4.5 tog.

Mine never used a sleeping bag. I tried to introduce it a couple of times but he just wasn’t having it and fussed and kicked the legs so I gave up and he’s been sleeping with a blanket since he was a baby.

Pillow came not long after he’s 1st birthday. But he’s happy sleeping with or without it. He’s 18m now.

DD is just over 2 and we’ve introduced it this week.

Id have been happier to keep the sleeping bags, particularly as we’ve just bought some new ones, but she started making such a fuss getting them on. One night DH informed me he’d just put her in the cot without one on as it was ‘warm in there anyway’ 🙄 Rather than risk waking her up I decided to cover her with the cotbed duvet someone had given us as a gift. She actually seemed to sleep better (or at least longer before she woke wanting to get in with me) so we’ve stuck with it. It’s an I-baby one from Amazon and I can’t see a tog, claims to have something called outlast technology for constant temperature? Dunno what that means but it’s working fine.

The pillow started about the same time, she does often spend part of the night in our/ my bed and has started asking for a pillow so we put one in the cot.

She still moves around a bit and often ends up the opposite way round to the pillow/ on top of the duvet, but she usually finds her way back at some point.

My 4yo's had a pillow for over 2 years and I've never once seen her sleep on it, she just sleeps on the mattress!

I'd keep her in a sleeping bag till she starts undoing it, it's warmer and you don't have to keep getting out of bed to put it back on them.

I kept mine in sleeping bags as long as possible as they couldn't climb out the cot with one on, plus the wriggling around so duvets came off. They both got pillows around 1 year when they started using a teddy as a pillow, then duvets when moved to a bed.

My twins are 2.5, and still in sleeping bags. I was planning to get them duvets for winter, but reading this thread, will leave them in sleeping bags till Spring!