I want to pick out some big girl bed bedding for my 21 month old, but I highly doubt she'll ever be IN the comforter when it gets cold since she moves around... So is it really needed? Since I'm looking at bedding now wonder what I should get. I think I'd still get a duvet set so when the bed is made it looks cute, but at night probably just stack it on one end to act as a barrier...
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I think E will use one, at least at the beginning of the night.
Right now he's a bit obsessed with blankets and sleeps with 3 baby blankets and occasionally a blanket he steals from the living room.
I plan on getting a plain white or blue sheet set, and hopefully having my MIL making him a quilt that matches his 'woodland' decor. -
We transitioned to a big bed at 26 months and she's always used the comforter. She runs hot so it gets kicked off often in favor of just a sheet, but even with all of her moving around, I've watched her on the video monitor grab it and pull it over herself when she's cold.
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DS is nearly 4 and he treats his bed like a crib - no pillow, no sheets or comforter, nothing. We keep trying to add things, but he just takes them off. So I guess you never know!
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@josina: I am so confused about bedding! I'm debating getting a sheet set first and see what happens in the winter, or just starting out right away with a comforter/duvet set. It will be cold in the winter, but I just don't see her staying under the covers.....? It's hard to tell now b/c we all don't really go under the cover.
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She uses it every night. Her flat sheet gets pushed down to the end of the bed every night.
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We have a sheet set (and like @Smurfette the flat sheet does often get pushed down by morning). We started with a duvet cover and it was annoying bc somehow she would get the comforter inside all twisted around. So we moved to just a printed comforter from PBK and that has worked great. She's been in her big girl bed since she was 2 and she's always managed to mostly stay under the comforter. At 4 she sometimes kicks it around at night but she pulls it back up around herself in the middle of the night. I think the key is to have a comforter with enough weight and is actually made to be on the size of bed the child is using. Most people I know use smaller blankets and unless your child sleeps absolutely still that blanket is going to move around and fall off and is just hard to keep on. But a big comforter that comes down over and around the sides of the bed and that your child snuggles down into is better at staying put over the course of the night.
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She uses a quilt that a friend made her when she was a baby. She usually has the flat sheet and the quilt and if has trouble falling asleep (aka, getting out of bed 80 times), I'll give her a special sleepy blanket (just a fuzzy throw blanket) spritzed with lavender. It stays on mostly most nights.
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She uses her comforter every night. She loves it! It's just a plain lavender one from Target.
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Mine is in a toddler bed which is just her crib with the side off, so she is basically still using crib bedding. She has a fitted sheet, an A&A swaddle, and she uses an A&A dream blanket as a heavier blanket. No pillow, no real comforter.
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Even at 5 she prefers to just have a fleece/fuzzy blanket. She has a full sheet set and a comforter on her bed including two pillows. She actually sleeps with some obnoxious furry princess pillow someone gave her and at least one fuzzy blanket but sometimes up to three blankets. She doesn't like the real pillow, flat sheet or the comforter.
It's also not uncommon for her to sleep sideways on her bed.
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My 3.5 year old as used hers consistently since she got her big girl bed at 28 months. My 21 month old moved to a big girl bed a few nights ago. She loved tucking into her sheets and comforter, but she's not actually sleeping under them so far. She's still sleeping the exact same way she did in her crib. We'll see if that changes...
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My big girls both use theirs.
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We have always either had a down comforter/duvet cover OR a quilt on DD1s bed, in addition to the sheets. She typically starts the night out "tucked in", but since she moves around all the time, often ends up laying on top of it at some point.
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Never. She barely uses a sheet/blanket so we took off the comforter.
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Yes. He moved around a lot but loves his comforter.
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B is 2.5 and the first thing he does at bedtime is fling his blanket on the floor. It's been hot, though, I'm hoping when it gets cold he'll use it.
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My son loves to be covered. He does uncover himself but will sometimes call us to come cover him. We got him a toddler bed set that came with a flat sheet with a fitted sheet bottom to help it stay and a comforter. He really likes them.
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I will add she doesn't use her pillows most nights. Weirdo
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Try to get a "lighter" comforter. My LO moves around a LOT too. At first, we had a duvet but she didnt use it at all. As soon as we got a lighter comforter (PBK), she would go under the covers. She still kicks it off sometimes.
My inlaws from Korea sent me a toddler "sleep sack" but it looks like a long vest that you wear over your pjs. I wonder why they don't make it here, bc it's perfect for toddlers who can't stand blankets
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Dd never stayed still enough to keep a blanket on her, and at 3.75 she still doesn't keep a blanket on. I have still wanted to get her a nice bedding set anyway because they are cute.
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He sleeps under one of those aden and anais blankets (the multiple layer ones). He mostly stays under it.
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my 3.5 year old still wants nothing to do with a blanket. i put a microfleece throw on his bed and he sleeps on top of it. the kid never even touches his sheets
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@Smurfette: Haha! Mine loves pillows.
@misolee: Oo, my mom will be in Asia next week, I'm gonna ask her to look for some options that we may not have here!
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I was firmly in camp comforter with a duvet cover until I discovered quilts. I have a madras plaid quilt for my son's bed and it has been a game changer in terms of the bed for him. I got a queen sized quilt and am able to tuck it down between the mattress and box spring to keep it in place and my son actually uses it.
I am really curious about the dream blankets, I am trying to see if I can make my own using double gauze fabric...if you have one with a print, can you see the print through the layers? How is it bound?
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@Beehive: This is my kid too (3 and change). She is using a pillow finally (though I think it's because she's getting long enough that her head just doesn't have anywhere else to go), but she sleeps in long PJs year round because there's no keeping that kid under a blanket.
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Yes, they both use their quilts/comforters. It might take a little while for her to take to it - I usually just put it on once and if they kicked it off it stayed off in the beginning.
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We still use sleep sacks for my 27 month-old. We have a blanket folded at the foot of her bed and occasionally offer it to her, but so far she's not ready for it. She does have s small pillow, and we let her choose a fun sheet set when we moved her to her big bed. She chose flamingoes.
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My son has had a duvet since 2.5 and he uses it in the winter. This will be my DD's first winter out of a sleepsack, so we'll see! We just switched her to a twin and I'm in the process of buying her bedding and I plan on going the duvet route for her too.
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When my littles go to sleep, they always end up a hot, twisted mess of animals, sheets, comforters, and kid, but . . . I'm really glad we have them. We always go cover them back up right before bed, and the older they get the more I find them burrowed into their comforter. That said, we moved them straight to twin beds. I don't think I would have bought a comforter if it was for a toddler bed that they would only be in for a little while.
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This is so interesting to read, so many different ways kids sleep!
Since we already have a comforter for the twin bed, I'll just be getting a duvet set to start with to see how she does...
Right now he's a bit obsessed with blankets and sleeps with 3 baby blankets and occasionally a blanket he steals from the living room.Reply
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