When did you start using a pillow/blanket for DC?

My mom keeps asking me when DD (who is almost 10 months) can start sleeping with a blanket. She's now using a fleece sleep sack and seems to do fine with it but I'm curious when people usually switch. Thanks!

What age did you start using a blanket?

What age did you start using a pillow?

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My boys always had a blanket.
I got them pillow pets around 15mo. They love their blankies but still aren't huge fans of pillows.

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pillow I'm guessing around a year or just before. It was the easiest way to keep her elevated.

Blankets were even earlier. I have photos of her in her blankets in NY so I would say around 6m?

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pillow and blanket for DD when she moved into her toddler bed at 2.
DS is 6 months and I will occasionally put a blanket on him for a nap but never at night...he wears sleepsacks. no pillow.

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I think I have been using a blanket since 5 months or so...she didn't like the sack things

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I started using a blanket around 6-7 months. DS was sick and he wanted his fleecie blanket for comfort. He wasn't the best sleeper but, that seemed to help him sleep better so I did it (reluctantly at first). He still totes around his "guckie" for comfort.

For pillows - DS has one but, he uses it on our bed to watch TV - I tried putting it in his crib and he finds it easier to sleep laying flat (and I don't like it in the crib because I can see it making it easier for him to climb out).

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WOW on the blankets. My DD is 19 mos and I still can't give her one b/c she moves ALL over the crib at night...it would never stay on her I feel like. No pillow either - I just don't really see the need for a pillow. DD wears a sleepsack with legs.

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DS is 22 months and still doesn't use blankets or a pillow.

I think once he transitions into a toddler bed we'll give him a blanket and pillow. Right now he sleeps in fleece footie pj's and I have a sleep sack for him in case it's really cold, but so far haven't needed to use it.

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At about 12 months she had blankets and a pillow pet in there. She just plays with the pillow pet and she bunches up the blankets and uses them as a pillow. One day she'll figure out how to cover herself up!

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Around 17 months but his pillow is VERY flat and I give him small blankets or else he gets all tangled.

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We gave DS a blanket at about 18 months. We just gave him his pillow pet about 2 weeks ago (he's 21 months), but he doesn't know how to use it. The pillow pet is usually on the opposite end of his crib.

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DS started using a pillow (toddler pillow i got at BRU) maybe around age 2 1/2? Probably started using blanket around that age too.

We were not in a rush. He is a wild sleeper and has no idea where he is at night. At 18 months we thought he would do fine with a blanket. LUCKILY, at 6 am one morning, DH just happened to look at him on the monitor and saw that the blanket was WRAPPED AROUND HIS HEAD.

I say put them in warm pjs.

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DS1 always had a blanket, I losely swaddled him until 9 months. I would put him to bed swaddled, he would break out (still sleeping) and before I went to sleep I would sneak in a put a light blanket over him.

He got a pillow at 14 months. He got sick, I wanted to elevate the mattress but forgot to I stuck a pillow under his head. He loved it and never looked back.

DS2 is 9m. He sleeps in a sleep sack. He prefers to be warm and like his brother moves alot while sleeping, but unlike his brother he wakes up if he is uncomfortable, ie cold, so I am sticking with teh sleep sack for awhile!