Switching from sleeping bag to duvet?

[florenceuk]

OK very trivial thread. DS(2) is driving me nuts by undoing his sleeping bag! During the day, he takes it off, then throws everything - toys, water, bag - out of the cot, then jumps up and down, yelling Mummy, Mummy and singing. Or he undoes his nappy, so I can't just ignore him. This carries on for about 3/4 hr or longer, until he drops from exhaustion. I know he is tired because he doesn't do it for the nanny, he just does it for the joy of me coming in at two minute intervals to do it up again. At nighttime he is tired, so he just undoes the bag, then goes to sleep, so I have to go in and do it back up again when he is asleep. I am wondering whether to switch to a duvet - presumably this is OK at his age? Or will he just throw the duvet off as well? How many of you have your 2-yr olds in a sleeping bag?

DS is 2.10 and has sleeping bag AND duvet!

Thats our eventual solution. He is in a bed and has a full size duvet but was continually knocking to off, getting cold and crying in the night.

We now have him in a summerweight sleeping bag with the full size (but old and fairly thin) duvet. I think because he wriggles inside the sleeping bag the duvet tends to stay on. He must be wriggling because his pj legs have always ridden up to his knees by morning.

Duvets fine from 12 months on safety grounds BTW.

kept dd1 in sleeping bag till she went into a bed (well, converted her cotbed into a bed) at 2yr 9 mths. now use kingsize duvet tucked under her mattress partly to prevent her from falling out of bed - happened a lot at first!
my sister put her little girl into a fleecy extra-warm all-in-one under a duvet because she has a loft bedroom and it's not that warm up there.

Take a big safety pin and pin it over the zip at the end of the bag. Stopped the sluglet from that trick.

I sympathise with you, one night I went in to check on her and found her completly starkers, fast asleep with legs bent at the knee to expose all!

i got ds a duvet about 2 weeks ago, he'll be 2 at the end of january.

he used to love his sleeping bag & giggle whenever it was mentioned, but started refusing to in it. our house isn't freezing, but it's colder upstairs & i didn't think blankets were keeping him warm enough. i bought a single duvet from ikea (full size, not cot size) & he's got that in the cot, folded over so he actually sleeps on half of it. he's very pleased that he now has one like mummy & daddy.

Aah, safety pins! Must try that one tonight. Hopefully he won't bust the bag from frustration. I don't want to put him in a bed until absolutely necessary. Thanks!

My 16 month old was forever climbing out of her sleeping bag/grobag thingy. We swapped her to a cot duvet (mothercare one) about 3 months ago and she has been fine, though I do go in to check on her before DH and I go to bed and she has often kicked it off.

I've been wondering about this kind of thing as we've got a heating problem at the moment and I don't think my daughter's sleeping bag is warm enough. The thing is she moves around in the cot so much that I've always worried about giving her a duvet or blankets in case she ends up with them over her head. how likely is this?

How old is she Evita? If you are worried what about cotton cellular blankets?

How is she sleeping. Do you check her temp - she might be warmer than you think.

Bozza, hard to tell at the moment as her sleep and temperature are a bit disturbed by a nasty cold and bad chest. I do have some cellular blankets - are they ok then if a baby gets them over their head?

Sorry, Bozza, she's 14 months.