Beyond the gro bag.....

[tory79]

Ds is just coming up to a year. He has always slept in a gro bag. I am thinking of trying something else - what else do 1 year olds sleep in?! I'm a bit confused over the rules re quilts/blankets etc. also, he does move a lot on his sleep.....does that mean a gro bag IS the better option?

Sorry that's a bit rambly!

Our DD1 has just turned 3 and has only now moved on from sleeping bags to a cotbed sized duvet. She was also a very wriggly sleeper and I IMHO grobags are great! DD2 has just started sleeping in a grobag aged 4 months. I would stick with the sleeping bags if I were you

DD2 21 months has been too hot for a grobag, but I think we'll be putting her back in one for the winter.

dd was in a grobag up to 18 months and ds was in his until he was 2½ years old and went into a big bed.

I've always wondered why sleeping bags are so popular!
When DS was newborn and had to have nightime nappy changes there a right faff, then as they get older and fall asleep having milk, getting them into the grow bag wakes them up. Same now he's 1, he falls asleep whilst we read a story and then tuck him in with blankets!

If it's warm, he wears a vest and bottoms and a single cot blanket. If it was really cold, i'd probably put him in a sleepsuit because it keeps his feet warm, plus two or three blankets. There's no rules to it, just common sense of layering blankets! Once you're in bed, you can see what you're wearing/the temperature and adjust them to it by putting on an extra blanket or taking one off.

DS is a wriggler but he's always been fine. Blankets are useful for everything, warmth in cot or in the pram, maskshift sun canopy, for sitting on at the park. Sleepingbags only have one use!

you put them in the grobag first then give the milk so that when they fall asleep you just put them in the cot. You also get grobags with openings that make them compatible with the pram/buggy, etc. You dont have to worry about blankets over the face with a grobag and they cant wriggle out of them.

A 1 year old is more than capable of not getting his face caught in blankets! Just tuck them in!

I personally found breastfeeding in a sleeping bag stupidly awkward, and is DP was giving him expressed milk in a bottle it would dribble everywhere!

I just find it bizaare how expensive some of them are. The one we orignally had was a tesco one, but even then it was miles more expensive then a few blankets. I don't understand all the crazy things like swaddle wraps, it takes about five seconds to do it with a cellular blanket!

I'm keeping DD (11 months) in hers until she goes into a proper bed, tk Maxx do the proper gro bags for £10-15 but they do cheaper ones too.

For me the benefits outweigh the annoying things, put a bib on the baby when feeding them in a gro bag duh and open the zip when a bum needs changed not rocket science

I wish they did adult ones then I wouldn't have to share covers with DH :o

We moved dd1 out of her Grobag as she kept trying to stand in it and would fall over in her cot. She was just over a year. So we moved onto a cot duvet - £8 from ikea. Kept her in babygros and then shortly afterwards moved into PJs. No probs whatsoever!

Those fleecy sleep suits are good for over pjs in winter if you don't want to use a gro bag, prinark and asda do them!

DD at 17mo is still in a grobag. I bf with the grobag on. It's not awkward at all. But then DD can actually stand and crawl in a grobag. She can also walk in it with support from a walker or the wall or bed. She's just a kicker, turner and roller I can't see how she can stay in a blanket. We did start out with blankets when she was born, but she lost them all within half an hour.

DS 2.1 is still in a grobag too. One thing I am learning is they are GREAT for keeping LO from climbing out of the cot. So if you have a super active LO who is likely to start climbing at anytime but you don't want to move them into a big bed yet - keep them in a grobag for as long as you possibly can!

2 years and 8 months and still happy in a grobag!

Thanks all. I think we will stick with the gro bag for a while longer then. Unfortunately it does not get in the way of him crawling or standing, but I can see it would give him trouble with climbing

He just always seems to get them really twisted up, but I suppose that would happen with blankets too!