Pillow and Duvet in cot for my 2YO???

[Dalrymps]

Ds turned 2 at the end of oct and is still sleeping in his cot. He's perfectly happy there and hasn't attempted any climbing out antics as yet

He's quite small for his age so he can comfortably stay in there a while longer and we're in no rush to put him in a toddler bed yet. Tbh I am due to give birth to dc2 in march so don't want to add to the disruption by moving him in to a bed until baby has been here a little while and he's used to his little bro...

Anyway, he sleeps in pjs/fleecy suits and a grobag but i'm wondering whether it might be a good idea to introduce a pillow and duvet now? I just thought it might be a bit more cosy with it being winter and it might be more of a gradual transition for when he goes in to a bed.

Has anyone done this? Are there little duvets you can get that fit a cot? What about the pillow, just a notrmal one?

Oppinions please!

appologies for typos!

My dd4 turned 2 at the beginning of October and has always slept in her cot with a normal size pillow and a cot duvet, got mine from Musbury fabrics (they also make sheets for cots). Will have a look for the website.

www.musburyfabrics.co.uk/ password is usually the month you're in, November! Hope this helps.

Ds is 3 yrs and 3 months and still in his cot complete with normal sized duvet and pillow. He is also a titch and loves his 'pot' as he calls it. He's had a normal pillow and quilt for sometime now and it works well. He looks a snug as a bug in a rug.

DD1 is still in her cotbed (so it's maybe a bit bigger than your cot, not sure, it's 70cm x 140cm) and she is nearly 3

She now has a pillow (just a normal one actually, though it's quite flat) and a cot duvet from Ikea though she usually prefers layers of blankets.

TBH I feel she was warmer with the sleeping bag as she tends to roll around and throw off the covers. However, when we toilet trained her, she started waking at night to use the toilet and the grobag was such a faff. I would stick with your grobag for a bit longer if I were you (at least through the coldest weather so you avoid endlessly going in to re-tuck him in!)

x-post with boolifooli, glad I'm not the only one happy to keep their child caged in a cot for a bit longer.

DD1 is the only child of her age we know who hasn't been in a bed for months, but she would definitely be a nightmare with getting out of bed and wandering about (we tried it on holiday in September and she ended up in our bed everynight and took 2 hours to go to sleep as she kept getting up to put the light on/off or go to the toilet)

Ah great, will have a look at that site...

Yes, I have to admit I do think he'll be in and out like a fiddlers elbow once in a bed hence us not rushing for that to happen . Good job he's just little!

Will mull over the grobag v's duvet thing. Guess I just lie there in out bed with our lovely duvet and blanket on top and wonder if he's cosy enough... Although he probably would move all over and chuck the duvet off.

Might get a pillow first and then move on to the duvet

I used the quilt sets and quilt from IKEA in the cot.

DS2 went into his own bed at 21 months and he was used to a normal quilt then

We do have a quilt from Ikea somewhere that we haven'y used yet so will have a look at it. It's sort of a patchwork type one, is that what you've got?

dd1 (2.5) is still in her cot and has the basic ikea cot duvet - I think they do a little pillow as well.

I got her a girly cot duvet cover from Dunelm Mill which shouldn't fit the ikea duvet but it does!

I found that dd1 slept much better once she had a duvet which makes me think she wasn't as cosy in her grobag.

Ooh so your dd slept better with a duvet! I'm confused now which to do. Suppose I could stop being a wuss and just try and see what happens, can always go back to a grobag if it doesn't work out yet.

He's a great sleeper so I can't cope with the idea of disturbed sleep if it doesn't work . I'll have plenty disturbed sleep come march...

Dalrymps, you've answered your own question there! If he is a great sleeper just now, why change anything? Wait a while, there's no rush.

We've got the same Ikea cot duvet that meep linked to.

DD1 prefers blankets anyway. And is like a contortionist at getting out of her covers.