sleeping bags etc
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Topic: sleeping bags etc
Posted By: Mum2ET
Subject: sleeping bags etc
Date Posted: 30 August 2008 at 2:11pm
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just a couple of questions for everyone... For those of you who use/d sleeping bags, at what age did you stop using them? Did it coincide for when they moved into a bed? For those of you who didn't/don't use a sleeping bag how on earth do you make them stay underneath the blanket/duvet? Also has anyone used something like this. http://http://www.thesleepstore.co.nz/shop/grobag/grobag+bedding+sets/grobag+my+first+bedding+set+-+single+bed+size.html - http://http://www.thesleepstore.co.nz/shop/grobag/grobag+bedding+sets/grobag+my+first+bedding+set+-+single+bed+size.html and did them make them stay under the cover more and not fall out of bed? Thanks ------------- Mum to Ella (5) and Tom (2) |
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Posted By: kebakat
Date Posted: 30 August 2008 at 2:16pm
| We use a sleeping bag during the day but not at night. During the day he is more likely to move about and its a good sleep cue for him. At night though, once hes put in bed he stays where we put him. We are going to look at ditching the sleeping bag in summer cause it's a winter weight bag and I dont want to buy another. |
Posted By: Mum2ET
Date Posted: 30 August 2008 at 2:23pm
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Wow I have got no chance of Ella staying in one place- during the night or day. It's always interesting when I go in and check on her to find out what strange position she was got herself into. ------------- Mum to Ella (5) and Tom (2) |
Posted By: kebakat
Date Posted: 30 August 2008 at 2:30pm
| Perserverance worked for us. When we got rid of the safety sleep we would go back in every 5 mins and put him where he should be, he eventually worked it out that was how he slept. He very rarely sleeps in weird positions. Even when hes been standing in his cot protesting about being put to bed we always find him in the middle of his matress, sometimes facing the foot end but still in the right place |
Posted By: myfullhouse
Date Posted: 30 August 2008 at 5:22pm
Snap! I was wondering if Jack would ever sleep under the covers. He is in a sleeping bag now. Will stop using it in summer as it is merino winter weight but may make him a cotton one for summer. I would be too scared of waking him if I went in and moved him every 5 mins. He is not a very good sleeper so I don't do anything that might wake him, especially during the day. I just hope it is something he grows out of. ------------- Lindsey 
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Mum2Ella wrote:Posted By: kebakat
Date Posted: 30 August 2008 at 5:45pm
| When I said I move him every 5 mins thats while hes awake. So I popped him down, 5 mins later I could see hes still awake so I put him back where he was meant to be, check again in 5 mins, if he was asleep I left him, if he was still moving about I'd put him back. ya know |
Posted By: myfullhouse
Date Posted: 30 August 2008 at 7:20pm
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Ohhhh! I do that and it still doesn't work!! He is often either sideways or right up against the cot bars. Although I have only just this week stopped raising his cot and he didn't quite move as much when the cot end was raised but still enough to make blankets useless. Hopefully he will grow out of it, probably hard to get a sleep sack for an adult!! ------------- Lindsey
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Posted By: HippyMama
Date Posted: 30 August 2008 at 7:34pm
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We are still using a sleeping bag for DD at night, if we try to pull a sneaky one and not use it she always asks LOL This is as well as her duvet, at least in winter. I'm not sure yet how or when we'll ditch it, but it won't be for a few weeks at least. ------------- Mama to two earth walkers & two angels. Remember, you are not managing an inconvenience; You are raising a human being. ~ Kittie Franz Next Slingbabies! Meet - Friday 4th May !! |
Posted By: KH25
Date Posted: 30 August 2008 at 8:47pm
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I stopped using a sleeping bag at the beginning of this winter when I couldn't find a winter one big enough (that I liked). I now use a fleecy sleep suit with feet so she has her jammies on then the sleep suit. I use it in much the same way as the bag but its got feet - and she can still wear it in the mornings once she is up and keeps toasty warm. We moved her into a bed last week and I find she is staying under the covers now. Even if she gets out of bed, she seems to get back in and pull the covers back up over herself when she is ready for sleep! ------------- Kelly, mum to DD, 19Jun06 (26wks 1lb15oz) DS1, 24Oct10 (32wks 4lb11oz) and DS2, 31Dec11 (32wks, 4lb11) http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Mama2two
Date Posted: 30 August 2008 at 9:22pm
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The rate Sam is going she will be in a sleeping bag until she is 18!
Everytime I go and check on her she is in a different position, the last time tonight she was sideways with her feet through the bars. Sorry, no advise, but just a sympathetic ear for a fellow wriggly child  ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: FionaS
Date Posted: 30 August 2008 at 9:39pm
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Elle is in a bed but still uses her go-go bag. She always asks for it if I don't put her in it, settles perfectly WITH it but finds it hard to settle withou it. She isn't much of a climber so hasn't ever climbed out of bed but does move all over the place at night during her long awake periods. She doesn't stay under blankets. I suspect I will need to buy a toddler bag soon. I love sleep sacks and say if it works...stick with it. ------------- Mummy to Gabrielle and Ashley |
Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 30 August 2008 at 9:55pm
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Gremlins have just gone into beds and they are still in their sleep sacks. Like others have said, they are a sleep cue and they know that sacks = bed. That doesn't stop them taking them off when they get put to bed, but they don't keep blankets on and sleep all over the place so sacks are a good option. Earlier tonight I went to check on them and had to put Mercedes back into bed - she'd rolled off and was UNDER the bed! -------------  Maya Grace (28/02/03)
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The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
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Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 30 August 2008 at 10:40pm
| Taine wears sleep suits wit feet. they are nearly $30, but you can get them for nearly half that if you time the sales right. the one thing I don't like about them is that they re polar fleece and it just doesn't breathe well. Jake sweats a lot, so the sleep suits were terrible for him. Even when it's cold he wears summer pjs now. |
Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 30 August 2008 at 10:46pm
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Andrew was just over a year when I got rid of his (he became too long for it). Josh didn't like his so went from wrapped to being totally free. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: Alianasmummy
Date Posted: 31 August 2008 at 10:21am
When we put Xavier into a bed i decided to do away with the bag as well but he kept getting out and running around, when i put him into the sleepsack he couldnt walk properly in it so gave up getting up all the time 
He worked it out eventually but since we moved house he cant reach the door handles so that contains him.
I found he was wetting through every night a few weeks ago and i got sick of washing the sleepsack every night so i stopped putting him in it, he still asks every night but with the heater on in his room (otherwise its a freezer in the morning) he gets too hot in the sleepsack. I still find him at the end of the bed and in random places but it doesnt wake him anymore and he has stopped wetting through  ------------- http://lilypie.com">  tickers" /></a>
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Posted By: Rachael21
Date Posted: 31 August 2008 at 12:41pm
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Caprece is odd and just stays under the blankets but we only stopped wrapping her quite recently so that could be why.
Jack would be all over the plave, we just had a heater on so his room was warm enough to not have blankets. He eventually started sleeping under the blankets well after he moved into his bed. He spent a few months sleeping at the end of his bed or on the floor but he eventually got it. |