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Keeping duvet in place at night

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GreenerGrass321 · 14/10/2023 12:28

Just wondered if anyone had any tips for keeping the duvet on at night for kids who fidget ALOT! Dc is known to roll around a night and kick the duvet off. That was fine over the summer but now as it get colder, we constantly find him laying in bed with the duvet on the floor or tucked completely underneath him.
we currently have him in thicker PJs but that won’t last for the colder winter months

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TizerorFizz · 14/10/2023 15:06

If he’s cold he will pull it over him won’t he? Is he a baby or child? He’s too hot with the duvet maybe? Get a bigger one and tuck it in? Does it matter that much? He’s going to wake up if he’s cold.

TokyoSushi · 14/10/2023 15:09

I still tuck ours under the mattress at the bottom and they're 11 & 13!

SeaToSki · 14/10/2023 15:10

I had a elastic strap thingy that went under the mattress and had clips on both sides so that I could clip it onto the duvet. I dont know if they still sell them as I have older adult dc now. It would ping off if the dc got too wriggly, and it did actually help them to lie still and go off to sleep as they didnt want to ping it off

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FallingAutumnLeaf · 14/10/2023 15:31

How old is he? And what sized bed?

If toddler bed, get a (lower tog that whatever you are using) single duvet, and use it sideways, so you can tuck loads under the mattress at one side. You could probably do that with a single bed and small child too.

BUT, are you sure he needs the duvet? DS2 (at secondary) is still sleeping in shorts, and using a very thin blanket. He might progress onto a 1.5tog duvet by mid winter.... I got the 10 tog duvet out when DH was away the other week.

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GreenerGrass321 · 14/10/2023 17:06

He is 3.5 years and in a toddler bed. It’s hard to know if he is getting cold or not, but I feel cold at night, and he is already snotty and got a bit of a cough, but that’s probably just nursery germs

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Lizzt2007 · 14/10/2023 17:10

Mines 5.5 and still ends up on top of the duvet more than under it, and he frequently sleeps naked. He's a wriggly hot bod, which is fine until he ends up in my bed and I'm freezing to death rather than pull the duvet from under him!

Blondeshavemorefun · 14/10/2023 17:13

Get single duvet. Turn round and tuck under mattress

TizerorFizz · 14/10/2023 17:30

@GreenerGrass321 Bugs are picked up at nursery not by kicking off a duvet. I’d try a very low tog duvet and hold it in place with a tucked in blanket when it gets cold. It isn’t yet. I’m not sure I’d worry about this. Dc don’t always feel cold as adults do.

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