Argh - throwing duvet out of cot

[MegBusset]

DS2 (17mo) discovered two weeks ago how to take his Grobag off and since then his new game has been throwing it out of the cot umpteen times a night (then crying for it).

Tonight we have tried him with a duvet instead, guess what, he is still chucking it out of the cot and crying (been at it 40 minutes and counting).

Any ideas (other than staple the damn thing to him)??

safety pin the zip at the top of the grobag.

clever boy though

He can get out of the Grobag without undoing the zip [hmmm]

I mean

gaffer tape socks over his hands?
You have to give the lad a clap for being clever :o how about pinning the grobag to his vest/babygro?

get him a smaller one

I have just been up to see him again. He was sitting laughing in his cot with the duvet on the floor, his sleepsuit poppers all undone and he was making good headway on getting his nappy off.

I have put him back in the Grobag!

I did put the Grobag on back-to-front as a delaying tactic

My own daughter did this when she was a baby and my solution was to sew a keyring onto the babygrow and then once she was all in it I would thread the hole on the zipper through the keyring.

She never worked out how to undo it and it was safer than using safety pins as she could get those undone.

He never goes for the zip, it's the shoulder poppers that are the escape point. I think he stands up and kind of shrugs his way out of it.

Back-to-front tactic failed

You can get grobags with front zips and no poppers.

Really Iggly, do you know where from?

Obv that wont help you now!

You could put an extra layer on him, turn the heating on and leave him without a blanket for the night.

Wow I see, our grobags never had shoulder poppers! Stoopid plan! Pin the shoulders closed?

X-post - here

Click on the features tab and it will tell you.

Most of them are zip only for age 6 months plus.

Sorry I didn't mean to sound rude when saying wont help you now - I meant I wasn't being helpful!

If you want to stick with a duvet, get a large cot duvet and tuck half of it under the duvet, he shouldn't be able to pull it out.

OR pick one from here (think there's an MN discount code something?) and pick one that doesn't have shoulder poppers. Some only come with zips on the fromt from 18mo, but there are lots that don't have the shoulder poppers.

I think the zips zip down, rather than up, so harder for them to get out of. If he does get out of it, ripeberry's idea is inspired

gah.. I'm tired.

..and tuck half of it under the mattress (not duvet. That would be daft.

Put the sleep suit on back to front so you don't have the poo/ nappy issue.

If you can get him in and out of the ones you have just by the zip, you could sew the shoulder straps closed. (tomorrow unless you are in danger of losing your sanity)

Thanks all, I have ordered a couple of popperless Grobags (will teach me for ordering from a cheaper competitor!). So hopefully in a couple of nights the problem will be sorted. Until then I will just have to keep reinserting him - at least for tonight he seems to run out of steam!

X-posted to Sirius, that is a good idea re: the shoulder straps and I'll try it tomorrow to get through the next couple of days, though he is a strong lad so would prob rip through ordinary thread!

Update: popperless Grobags arrived this morning, so far so good although he has been contorting himself like mad trying to work out how the hell to get out of it :)

Meg, success!