Blanketing for a co-sleeper?

[kismetbaby]

How do you blanket/keep warm your LO in the winter? Particularly if your LO is in bed with you or in a co-sleeper.

Our LO who just turned 3 months old has been sleeping with us and I just keep him under our covers. This is probably not recommended as we have a bid fluffy duvet cover, but I am very aware of him during the night and he basically sleeps in the crook of my arm so I have felt safe with it.

BUT he is a very restless sleeper! He kicks and wriggles all night and it is keeping DH and I awake. . .so we'd like to get him to sleep in a co-sleeper attached to the bed. (I'd rather keep him in our bed, but he literally kicks me in the belly half the night.) But because he is such a kicker, his baby blankets just won't stay on him! He lasted about an hour in the co-sleeper last night before he had kicked them off and was cold. (He's obviously also used to my body heat at night.)

Is there a way to tuck blankets in so they won't get kicked off?
Or do you just dress baby really warmly at night? We keep the thermostat at 66 degrees at night (but in the bedroom I'm sure its colder than this), so its not freezing, but still chilly.

[blumooned]

Our babe sleeps in our bed, next to me. He is dressed in a onesie & regular pajamas. He sleeps pretty close, so gets my body heat. We just got a new blanket that he & I share - it is 100% cotton with a loose weave, so there are "holes" in it. I put it up to my face & could breathe through it. This makes me much less worried at night, as far as suffocation goes.
Sorry, no advice on tucking in blankets, etc. DS always kicked his off too when he was in his crib.

[Tattooed Hand]

could you swaddle him?

[StoriesInTheSoil]

How about a sleep sack?

[fruitfulmomma]

I always start dd off with the covers up to her chest but she does move around a lot so I make sure she is warmly dressed, usually in one-piece footed pjs. Babies actually tend to overheat more often than they freeze so I am not really worried about it. If your baby feel cold in the mornings you could try adding a sleep sack or something similar that he can't kick off.

[Chamomile Girl]

The kind of sleepsack that goes over PJ's, sort of overall style, would be helpful to you here. That way you could dress him in warm jammies and then also a warm sleepsack.

66 degrees is higher than what we have my house at during the DAY lol, so I think he's probably fine without blankets.

[Abraisme]

Sleepsack and a hat should work just fine. My baby still likes to be swaddled, so that's how I keep her warm.

[kismetbaby]

Yah, I will try a sleep sack. We have some, but I thought they were too hot for when he is in bed with us. I normally just have him in light cotton footed pjs.

He is such an active babe and restless sleeper that he never would stay in swaddling and I don't think a hat would last longer than 3 min either! I go to some mom-baby groups and other babes of this age just seem to lay or sit still in their mom's laps, but not my guy. He is constantly moving! And he was like this in utero too. I'm afraid that as soon as he learns to walk he will be at a dead run from sun-up till sun-down and wear me out!