When to start using a duvet / pillow - Toddler

technic10

01/12/2011 at 15:27

Hi all,

My DD is coming up to the 18 months mark and we are currently using gro-bags, as she is about to outgrow the ones she has now we are wondering whether to start going for a toddler duvet?

She also uses her teddies as a pillow and we have been told you can get small children ones.

She has a cot/bed, but I think like lots of toddlers will fidget and move up and down the cot, change direction and so on..

Wondering if any of you have any experiences you could share such as; was there any sleepless nights, did they get used to it or was it harder to transition if you continued to use gro bags up to the age of 36 months etc...

Thanks

iwantanotherpls Platinum member

01/12/2011 at 15:42

i started using a pillow and duvet at about 14 months with Lizzie. i found she stayed more in 1 place with it!
lizzie sleeps in a fleecy sleepsuit with a single duvet, but she did have a toddler duvet to begin with.

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piggypops

01/12/2011 at 15:48

we started using a pillow at 12 months and we switched to a toddler bed with a duvet at 13 months x

kayssis

02/12/2011 at 08:06

We swapped over when ds outgrew his 12-18 month sleeping bags around 17months-pushed it as long as we could. We kept him in the grobag with a pillow for a week then introduced the duvet. Whenever we've tried him with a quilt before he always woke up
Cold so we got the grobag bedding set- the pillow case is attached to the sheet and duvet zips on, must say its been fab http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B003VYADVS/ref=redir_mdp_mobile?ref_=asc_df_B003VYADVS5493238&smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&tag=googlecouk06-21&linkCode=asn&creative=22206&creativeASIN=B003VYADVS
You can get cot size pillows and cot or cotbed size duvets

Blue_xStarx Platinum member

02/12/2011 at 23:57

Morning,

We swopped when he outgrew his 12 - 18 grow bages. He does kick things off now and then but doesnt generally wake up cold. The pillow def helped to keep him in one place . good luck xx

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A-Nonny-Mouse Platinum member

05/12/2011 at 08:16

We also swapped when she outgrew her 6-18 month grobags. It has stopped her moving about so much which is great.

helenbrown Platinum member

08/12/2011 at 05:30

We started using the duvet at 12 months. We hadn't bothered with bedding for most of the summer as it was too warm so when it started cooling down we got the duvet out. She uses her cuddly toys as pillows and we are happy to let that carry on for a bit. She does sometimes fidget out from under the duvet but I always pop my head in to cover her back up when I go to bed and she doesn't have any issues with staying asleep through the night.

KayeCee_And_Co Platinum member

13/12/2011 at 07:57

We started the transition at about 12 months (we needed to get her out of her cot at 17 months so the next one could have it!). First of all, we used her Grobag but added a pillow. Once she'd got the hang of that we swapped to a duvet and then once she'd got used to that we moved the whole package to her toddler bed x

Ruth77

10/04/2012 at 09:32

We started using both at around 15 months, but we use a light duvet & a light gro-bag with legs in it so if he kicks off the duvet (which he still does!!) he doesnt get cold. We got this type of gro bag - http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B004MW45NA/ref=mp_s_a_2?qid=1334064716&sr=8-2 - though not that pattern

blondefriend Platinum member

10/04/2012 at 16:34

We started in the summer so that it didn't matter so much if Abby kicked the duvet off. She was still in a cot at the time so it was harder to lose the duvet altogether. She was about 20 months at the time. Because Charlie was so poorly and didn't get home from hospital until 4 months old and then slept in a bouncy chair for 2 months we didn't move her out of the cot until she was 26 months (2yrs 2mths). By this time she was used to a duvet even through the winter and adapted very well to a single bed, duvet and pillow. I didn't see the point of a pillow before then and she has only started really using it since her 3rd birthday.

We will follow the same basic pattern with Charlie - move to duvet/quilt in the summer (22months) and then remove the sides from his cot bed once he is used to the duvet.

H x

scarlet_scar-alot Silver member

30/05/2012 at 20:22

it's pretty much a case of whenever you think they will need it as long as its anti allergy and not thick you should be fine.

my son was 11 months when he had his first pillow as he used his toys as pillows its not a big pillow just one for a cotbed and from that night on he slept though a lot better and the toys got kicked out. by his 1st birthday he needed a duvet at he was shivering in his grow bag and the cotbed got taken apart and turned into a toddler bed to stop him trying to climb out. now that it has warmed up he is back to just blanket and pillow.

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