My son is 13 months old and has been having a tough time going down for naps and bedtime lately - he's always fussed a bit, but lately there's been more sitting up and crying than he's ever done in the past. He has also recently become obsessed with pillows and loves to pull them off the couch and lay down on the floor with his head on them. I'm curious to see if putting a smaller firm pillow in this crib would help him settle/lay down more quickly, but am not sure what the safety guidelines are around this. I've seen many different answers online, so I'm just wondering when you ladies felt comfortable with it!
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Still no pillow at 2.5!
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We gave her one around 20 months when we moved her to a toddler bed. At 2.5 she has 2 pillows in her full size bed and actually sleeps with her head on the pillow and stays there all night. Before she slept all over the place
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@sandy: I'm hoping to move him to a toddler bed around 17 months since I'd like to avoid buying a new crib for his little brother, so if we haven't started using a pillow by then I imagine that's when we would begin. He does tend to sleep a bit all over the place currently, I wonder if he would stop doing that or if it would just end up at his feet half the time.
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@wonderstruck: it helped her stay with her head on one side of the bed. I would say it was like 75% she slept with her head on the pillow. Then around 2 it became more consistent. And when she moved to her big girl bed she started to pretty much sleep the entire night with her head on the pillow
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Almost 2 1/2 and we just gave him one when we moved to the big boy bed. If he had been giving me problems, I wouldn't have hesitated to give him one sooner, he just never seemed to need one and doesn't require it right now either.
I would be all over it if my kiddo had an obsession with it, anything to make nap/bedtime easier!
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At 15 months when we moved her to a toddler bed. We got a flat stomach sleeper one from ikea.
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We haven't used one yet at 21 months, but my lo does the same as yours with the couch pillows! And she has become more interested in going in our bed with her head/back on the pillows. So I'm not planning to give her one yet but was wondering this.
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Around 2. I bought a small pillow for back support while driving but it was too big and made a perfect toddler pillow. I would have felt comfortable putting it in there way earlier though - she's had a blanket with her since before she was 1. Most of the time now she ends up rolling off the pillow, but she does like to start out with it.
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Around 20 months.
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LO is almost 20 months and has had a pillow since 13 months. We put a full size pillow under her crib sheet because she always liked to snuggle with pillows on our bed when we co-slept. When we transitioned to the crib at 13 months we tried the pillow under the sheet and it worked great! She transitioned to a floor bed at 16 months and we continued with the pillow under the sheet. I'm sure she'd be fine with a real pillow, but this is going great so I'm not changing anytime soon!
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When he asked. I think he was 2.
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I gave one around 2, but he doesn't use it still at 3!
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When she was around 15 months. We moved her to her own twin bed, and she expressed a desire to have a pillow. She's 19 months now and has two full size pillows in her bed. She will move them around, and sometimes hide underneath them.. I think they make her feel safe. By the time she is asleep though she is laying on top of one of them the way she's supposed to. I had originally bought her the clevamama toddler pillow, but she hates it. She likes having a big pillow like mom and dad.
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I've been wondering this for E, but she uses her jellycat mostly as a pillow, which is weird and hilarious. And she sleeps fine,so i'm avoiding it for now. I think we'll probably move to a floor bed+pillow within the year
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At fourteen months dd took a pillow to bed with her and refused to let it go. She uses it probably 75% of the time now. She was definitely wanting one earlier but I held off.
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We gave LO a pillow around 2.5 years old when he moved into his big boy bed. At 3 his head is on the pillow about half the time. He always starts on the pillow, but he moves around a lot in his sleep.
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21 months. We were on vacation and the rental home provided a pNp but it was rock hard so I gave him a pillow. When we got home he was excited about having it in his crib. He uses it every night but doesn't sleep on it all night.
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Now that he's 2, I feel comfortable letting him use a pillow.
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At 18 months she doesn't have a pillow in her crib. But whenever she sleeps in our bed she gets her own pillow in between us and she does fine with it.
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Still no pillow at 2
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if our 17-month old showed some indication that he liked pillows and wanted to sleep with them, i would let him have a small one, but he doesn't so it hasn't been an issue. i can't remember what he was like at 13 months--it depends on the baby and your comfort level, you know your little one best!
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Around 15 months. We moved her to a floor bed, and had a body pillow at the head of the bed just kind of as a barrier against the wall - she started using it as a pillow on her own. Now at 17 months she balls up blankets and dolls to use as pillows if she doesn't have one.
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I give my one-year1olds little pillows for nap time, not for nighttime. They love them
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I gave DS a pillow every now and then to see if it would comfort him since when he co-sleeps with us, he likes to nuzzle up against my pillows. I'll lay him down to sleep on the pillow, but not even 5 minutes later, he's rolled off of it and sleeps without it. DS is currently 11 months.
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18 months when she covered to a toddler bed she insisted on taking a pillow, and she sleeps on it normal.
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My LO is 2 and she doesn't sleep with one in her crib, but when she plays in her tent, she always asks for her pillow and blanket. We do have one that's small and soft so she plays with that and lies down on it in her play tent. But she doesn't want it for her crib.
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Token bad mom here! Around 13m or so and she loves it and either has her head or whole body on it most nights!
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@Beebug: Haha, I don't think you're a bad mom! But maybe that's just because I'm strongly considering doing the same thing.
I think I'll give it a try soon and just watch him on the monitor for awhile to see how he does with it. It seems like by this age SIDS risk would be pretty darn low for a 1 year old who can pull himself up to his knees and crawl and climb everywhere. Maybe I'll start with it at nap time and see if it helps.
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@wonderstruck: we were shocked to see her use it properly, seriously adorable! I vote go for it
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