When do babies have duvets

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This can initially be done for nap times only. Bloomsbury Mill's vibrant cot bed duvets will help make the transition more fun and less daunting. Digger enthusiasts will love the construction vehicles design while the woodland animals design is perfect for little nature explorers. Rather than using a sleeping bag for naps, put your baby into the cot with their duvet and pillow to get them used to sleeping with them at nap times.

The advantage of starting with naps first, rather than overnight sleep is they can get used to the change without impacting their overnight sleeping.

Once your baby is managing to stay in one place and sleeping well in the daytime for naps, using the duvet and pillow, then you can continue this to the overnight sleep. Some toddlers may ask for the duvet to be used overnight at this stage and not want the sleeping bag. Choosing a duvet and pillow pattern with a vibrant and imaginative print like Bloomsbury Mill's cot bed duvets can help make the transition more fun and less daunting. Once your baby is sleeping well, with their duvet and pillow, in the cot, enjoy it!

I am often asked about the ideal time to move a baby into their big bed. Moving a baby into a big bed too early can often have a less than desirable outcome; even a toddler that has previously been sleeping and settling well might start thinking 3am is party time! The only exception to this is if your baby learns to climb out their cot. If this is happening, then you must move them into a bed for safety reasons.

If your baby is extremely mobile, a natural climber, this would be a reason to keep them in a sleeping bag for longer; it is harder to climb in one! In order to do this they will need to be able to get out of bed to use the potty or toilet. This has usually been at around two and a half or three years of age, but I know that many toddlers do learn to climb out much earlier!

As mentioned above, I have done variations of this with my children. My first had a duvet in his cot before I took the sides off.

My youngest had the sides off his cot bed before I transitioned him out of sleeping bags. But if your child is going to be in a sleeping bag in an open bed, you need to carry out your own risk assessment of your house, and have a stairgate at the top of the stairs, etc. With three children and a camera never far away, Chloe Bridge is the author of family lifestyle and travel blog, Sorry About The Mess.

Chloe writes and creates video about her experiences of motherhood and life with young children. Oh dear, these things really are never straight forward are they?! Allegra is 19 months now and I have just bought a load of month sleeping bags after pondering the bag vs duvet conundrumn — tricky decisions! Thank you for this!!

And I like the sound of the flat pillow! John Lewis do nice duvets, more pricey though. If you are moving her into a big girl bed soon, I would maybe consider getting a cotbed duvet, as the IKEA cot duvet may be a bit small. We are just making the transition now and are using blankets until it gets cooler although the little dude is determined to sleep on it rather than under it! He was just over a year old. We used grobags when he was little but as soon as he learnt to walk it was safer for him to not be zipped into a sleeping bag.

Doh, yeah that was the mistake I made — forgot that the IKEA duvet is cot sized and not cot bed sized! On a whim I decided to get a duvet and pillow for Willow. Ours too was from Ikea, the whole shebang. I think I spent two minutes googleing what age a child could have a duvet and then just did it. Reading this, I think you may be a bit of a better, more thorough Mum than me!