Grobag or duvet once baby is standing in cot?

[Padme]

ds is coming up to a year and since he was 10llbs has been in a grobag and v. happy too. Now he is standing and wandering about in his cot he has had a couple of tumbles and clonked his head on the cot sides. As yet he has not done any serious damage to himself but I worry that as he gets more active and wants to walk everywhere that he will.
Now it is getting colder I either need to get a 2.5 tog Grobag or a duvet for him. If I go for the duvet option, I don't know which is the safest and best. Have seen feather down and organic lambswool filled duvets available and think I prefer these to hollowfibre as they are natural materials. Does anyone else have duvets for their 12mnth olds and up?? What filling is best or is it just personal choice? I worry he will start to wake up because he is cold and I don't heat his room (usually about 18 degrees in winter) but am thinking that layering vest, PJ's and duvet of some description will be OK and he will learn to pull the duvet over him if he is cold, just as we do. Or, do I stick with Grobag and hope he learns that movement is limited in them?? Am being V. indecisive but have spent the last 12 months obsessing about temperature at night in his room and making sure he does not get too hot etc etc that I just want to know I am doing the right thing. Would love to hear anyones thoughts.

Hi Padme,

My 3-year-old is still in a Grobag. He sleeps in a normal bed and gets up and shuffles around quite happily. I don't really remember a "stumbling in the cot" phase, but we live in Malaysia and have the "summer" Grobags which are much longer than the others (there is one size from 6-36 months). Perhaps you could get your ds the next size up in Grobags so he can shuffle around a little in his cot. Would that help?

Our DD is 18 months and she's just started in her winter growbag (18-36 months) She shuffles pretty well now and is nice and toasty. Just wondering.....if you give him a duvet perhaps he'll be jumping out of his cot sooner than you'd like?

My dd in a grobag still too - she's 2.5 (yrs, not togs!). Did try her with a duvet when we put her into a bed, but she was having none of it. I think the action of actually zipping her up in her little bag makes it seem like bed time - just couldn't settle her with the duvet.
She's got very adept at shuffling with her bag on. Shufffles out of bed and across the landing - takes her a bit longer, but the way I see it is five more minutes in bed for me!

Padme, I have to ask, are you a Star Wars fan or is that your name ?
Re the grobag. DD has a duvet (2 yrs) but often kicks it off and doesn't know how to cover herself again so I would suggest keeping the grobag. Also the grobag should stop ds climbing out of the cot when he could do real damage. Keep the grobag !! DD jumped out of her cot the other night and was v lucky not to seriously hurt herself.

My ds is 2+9months and still in an 18-36 mnth Grobag. He can walk about in it quite happily and even climb onto the chair in his bedroom to turn on the light.

Tillysmummy - sadly, yes - a Star Wars fan! and when deciding on a nickname for mumsnet my mind went blank. Then remembered my friend who told me about Mumsnet in the first place who does an amazingly lifelike impression of Yoda - unfortunately, I do not look remotely like Natalie Portman. Shame.

Definately a grobag. For one thing you will find that he will probably keep getting from under the covers of a duvet, dd was always out of her blankets at that age and the cold woke her up.

Also I have a feeling that although thin coverlet type quilts are OK duvets are not recommended until age 2.

I too have always obsessed about temperature and how hot or cold my DS is. He's been in a Gro-bag since 4 months when he wasn't sleeping well and had learnt to kick his blankets off; he's also a proper little Houdini, so a Gro-bag plus cot-bed has had quite a restraining effect (except for the time he woke up in the middle of the night - extremely unusual- and there was no consoling him; I had to put him back in his cot to calm him and me down. The next thing I knew he was coming over the cot rail as if off a high-diving board and landed on his head; I have never been so frightened! He was fine though, but it gave me the worst scare ever. That was at 18 months.)

Last week at 2 years + 9 months I gave him a duvet; he's hasn't liked his sleeping bag for a while and on some of the colder mornings he actually felt cold. He's still in his cot-bed, so the duvet can't slip off; it is too big, but it does tuck under the matress at the bottom. He loves it and loves snuggling under it. Although Gro-bags were a God-send, I'm glad I've given him a duvet for winter.

thanks for all the advice. Think as DS is just coming up to 12 months that I will stick with a Grobag and leave the duvet until he is in a proper bed. Does anyone know of any other manufacturers other than Grobag itself? Also, is 2.5 tog the warmest?

Padme, Woollies are doing them now too, I think they were £14.99, not sure what tog. I'd stick with them as long as possible, dd1 is forever getting up in the night even though we tuck the duvet under the mattess (it's a spare double), and I yearn for those sleeping bag (or bean bag as she called them) days...