3yo that hates duvets/blankets

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Just turned 3yo DS. Slept in a cot with a sleeping bag until a few months ago when he started climbing out. He’s tall for his age so getting decent sleeping bags that fitted properly was also tricky (and expensive! 😅)

Now in a toddler bed but HATES the duvet. I’ve persevered for months hoping he’ll get used to it but it’s just not happening. Every time he stirs in the night he pushes it to the bottom of the bed. He’s then waking lots and it seems to be when the temperature dips so I’m assuming he’s cold. I’m currently going in multiple times a night to cover him back up when he’s asleep. Then inevitably he comes in to my bed at 2am or so and wants cuddled all night - but won’t let me have the duvet near him so I’m freezing 😅

Sleeping bags are a no-go because he can now walk about and he falls in them. I ordered a couple from LoveToDream which are quilted all-in-ones with fold over feet so that he can walk properly but he hates them 😅 wakes up complaining about the zip hurting him or the fabric all twisting round.

Can anyone give any advice? Any other duvet haters?! Any particularly cosy pjs/bed socks out there for 3yo.
Currently costing me a fortune in heating so any advice is appreciated 😅

@DNLove the bigger duvet cover is worth a try, thank you!

@Bumble84 I’ll have a look at the “Ready for bed”, thank you!
Actual sleeping bag has been tried and he just tries to get out and gets posed off trying to find the zip 😅

@olderthanyouthink Thank you 😊 I am so beyond paranoid about appliances etc being left on overnight 🙈 He might sleep better but there’s no way I would 😅

@LittleOwl153 I prefer being wrapped up so cosy at night so I worry about him being cold! Thermals etc is definitely my next attempt I think! X

My ds was exactly the same from being around the age your ds is now until about 3 years ago when he was 10! He's 13 now and loves nothing more than being snuggled up under his fleece duvet, but he does have some sensory issues which we attributed his dislike of covers to. He's outgrown many of these now thankfully. I tried all sorts at the time, a sleeping bag worked for a while short because of the novelty but not for long, I tried a bed tent so that any heat might be held within, I tried under sheet heated blankets which did help to some degree actually as they don't cover you, but he would always be freezing all winter and I'd be covering him up all night, it's tiring. Hopefully your ds will outgrow it soon.

It's difficult when the kid goes against your natural instincts! My eldest (teen) sleeps with the window open.. even last night when the temp was already -4 at 9pm... I used to shut it when I went to bed assuming she'd freeze... She'd just open it again in the early hours!

Thinking about it she tends to wear her layers rather than a quilt. She only has a 4 tog quilt year round, but layers up the fleecy pj's, onsies etc. I think it's about being free and unrestricted with her.

Mine's like this. Still at 8. What worked for us was really warm bed clothes but footless. Cold feet don't seem to bother them the way they do us and if you wrap him up so his body is warm (think PJS and a fleecy onesie for instance) he'll be overall warm enough and won't wake up, in my experience.

We have this issue with my 3.5 yo. Since 18 months she has removed herself from all sleep suits and sleeping bags. At 2 we moved her to a bed with a duvet. I'm the summer she keeps the duvet on but as soon as it gets cold she kicks it off.

We have an electric heater in her room on a timer switch so we can heat her room and not ours and we have just bought an electric under blanket to see if that helps but we have only got that yesterday so don't know if it will help yet. I'm looking at getting a higher tog duvet, we have tried to put extra blankets on but she does that the covers get launched across the room not just kicked off

I've skimmed the answers on here so sorry if someone has already suggested the below, but I have the exact same with my son who's 3 this week.

We stopped using sleepbags in the summer and he was fine in just normal cotton PJ's, wouldn't use the duvet but as the weather was warmer he didn't need it. Now it's a lot colder he does need something and we noticed he still wouldn't use a duvet and would wake up cold and crying in the night often.

I went and got him loads of fluffy / fleecey PJ sets from Primark - about £3-£5 per set. And lots of packs of fluffy socks with the rubber suckers on the bottom (I size up so they aren't tight on his feet). This works a dream keeping him warm, we always tuck him up before we go to bed but he often kicks the duvet off again and will still sleep through as the PJ's are still warm for him. We've avoided onesies due to night time potting training.

He's also recently developed an attachment to a fleece blanket he got at Xmas and will wrap it round himself on the sofa when he needs down time, so we've also started putting him to bed with this blanket too and he will actually pull it over himself in the night. I've just bought an identical one for his bday so we're never without one 😂

Sleeping bag that you can leave the bottom unzipped so it's easier to walk in?