When to move on from sleeping bag & cot?

[lataraw]

19 month old wears sleeping bags to bed and sleeps in cot

Sleeping bags say they can go till 36 months

Do I need to move on from either now or is it when sleeping bag is outgrown? When to move out of cot (wouldn't be able to climb out while in the bag!)

Is your child happy in the sleeping bag and in the cot?

Hello. I have a 2 year old still in a cot. He’s in 2-3 year old sleeping bags. He would pull a duvet off in the night and get cold otherwise. He will be in his cot for as long as possible probably until I think he would cling out!

When they learn to escape them or grow too big.

Unfortunately, they can learn to climb in a sleeping bag. Or simply how to remove it.

Ok thanks! Yes currently happy in there and a very active sleeper so don't currently see how a duvet would work!

Our little girl is 3 and this is the first winter she hasn't had a sleeping bag. She missed the sleeping bag when we stopped using it. She used to pretend blankets were a sleeping bag (during the day) and asked us to wrap her in them.

If she's happy and safe I wouldn't change anything.

Mine started climbing out of cot in the bag at some stage. Think that's when we changed the arrangement probably. He did roll out the bed a couple of times after that in his sleep, so can recommend a bed barrier thingy!

The bags can delay them climbing out. We used the bags and the cot till 36 months them switched to a toddler bed and duvet. Oldest never climbed out. Youngest climbed out once in a tantrum but never again.

If it’s working for you I wouldn’t change anything. My 2.5 year old started getting uncomfortable in her 18-36 month sleeping bags despite being within the height limit but I have changed them for tog sleepsuits as she moves around a lot at night and I will wait until it’s warmer to introduce a duvet. She is still in the cot and nowhere near climbing out although obviously would need to take the sides off if she could climb.

Lots of people move onto a bed when their child can climb out, but we found that DS1 could have climbed out, but didn't (except if having a tantrum about bedtime, when he'd be straight out!). So we kept the cot as long as possible. Think it was shortly after his third birthday when he announced he was ready for a big boy bed, and a couple of weeks after that before we had time to convert the cot into a bed. It worked well as he was reliable about his bedtime routine by then, able to understand his gro clock and when not to get out of bed, and safe to wander around the house and to the toilet if he did happen to get up. I was grateful to bypass any of the 'keeps getting out but can't be unsupervised out of bedroom' stage. DS would not have accepted a baby gate on his bedroom door, either!

Actually he still doesn't get up till morning. I pointed out he could just get up and go to the loo if he needed to, and he thought about it and said 'no I think I will just shout Mama'.

This! My boy was a big lad (still is!) and we had no choice but to move him to a duvet when he was about 18 months as he was too big for even the biggest sleeping bags and into a single bed when he was 22ish months as he was waking himself by banging against the edges/bumping his head on the top of his cot from being too broad and tall and he kept climbing out of his cot. Super safe 😅
If your little one is happy and fits comfortably, I would leave them where they are!

This is bringing back fond memories of having to stop DD1 climbing IN to her baby sisters cot at around 2 years old). She could climb everything.

Shes a teenager now and a regular at the local climbing gym. (Which is unfortunately 25 miles away or would be several times a week)

Keep them in the cot until the day they start to climb out!!

my son climbed out at just over 12 months and it was not fun having him in a toddler bed as he popped up in the house in the evening and night time.

DC2 I am hoping Will stays in the cot until at least 2.5!!!!