Blankets and pillows

[newmamalizzy]

At what age can a child start sleeping in the "normal" way, all snuggled up with blankets, pillows and stuffed animals? For those of you who have older children, did you find a difference in their ability to fall/stay asleep in their own space once the blankets and pillows came into play? Pillows and blankets are such a crucial part in MY ability to fall asleep and stay asleep, but maybe that's just conditioning?

[Lilygoose]

I don't know what the actual "recommended" age is or even if there is any consensus. My DD will be 2 next month and within the last few months I've started letting her have a pillow. I allowed light blankets a while ago, maybe 8 months? She also takes stuff animals to bed. She wants all of this stuff to fall asleep. However once she asleep she scoots down off the pillow, tosses the blankets off and scatters her stuffed animals, so it doesn't actually help her sleep at all. She just wants to be like mom and dad, with pillows and blankets.

[Lady Lilya]

I always put DS down on the bed below the pillow, so the pillow was above where his head was. That helped line him up with my breast, but mostly was ignored by him. However, on the occasion that he kept rolling towards me so that I felt smothered, I could move to the other side of him and just use his pillow.

He started laying himself with his head on the pillow at somewhere between 2 and 2.5 years old. Then one day at around that time it occurred to him that humans are supposed to pull the blanket over their bodies when they sleep. So from that point on he has insisted on having one every time we lay in the bed. No matter how hot it is.

[fruitfulmomma]

My current baby is 20 months and doesn't like blankets at all. I have to keep her in warm pajamas because otherwise she gets cold from kicking off the blankets. Somewhat annoying because I can't sleep without them.

My almost 4 yo doesn't seem to care one way or the other. The older three all sleep with pillows and blankets.

[CherryBombMama]

ds1 is 17m and we dont limit the blankets/pillows in our bed. he sleeps in the middle of us, and our bed has four pillows (mine, his, dhs,and one for dhs knees) but he hardly ever stays on his pillow, he usually scoots down in the bed and we have one down comforter that makes a "U" shape, covering my dh, not my ds, and then covering me. he kicks off the blanket.

we just started doing this, mainly because of the heat. before we just had no blankets (again, cuz of the heat)

[mckittre]

I give my 19 month old blankets, pillow, stuffed animals. Though he has a tendency to crawl out from underneath the blankets. We're just transitioning him to his own space, but we've not worried about the blankets and pillows in our bed for quite some time - probably since he was 1 ish?

[Marissamom]

my DD has always somewhat used blankets. when in our bed I would pull the blanket up to her waist and later her armpits. when we put her down for naps and the first part of the night in her own space at 3.5 months we put a blanket over her to her waist because the bedroom was always chilly and she never liked wearing much clothing. now at 16 months she sleeps with two blankets pulled up as far as she wants and a baby doll. she doesn't have a pillow yet because until her body catches up to her head in size it would be pretty uncomfortable because her neck would be at an almost 45 degree angle.