When did you let your child sleep with a blanket

BrendaLou1969 · March 2012

Ok, visiting from the 9-12 month boards and I was wondering, at what age did you all start using blankets in your childrens beds.

RayRay007 · March 2012

Since the day she was born. Surprise

LilyRose28 · March 2012

7 months with a crocheted blanket. Now he has 3 blankets.

hermione76 · March 2012

We bed shared until he was about 13 months and he was covered up with a sheet. He is in his own crib and sleeps with a blanket.

gisa886 · March 2012

RayRay007:
Since the day she was born.

Same here

CinemaGoddess · March 2012

We started when the girls were about 11 months old. That's when it started getting colder in the evenings.

But 9 times out of 10 they end up kicking the blanket off and sleeping on top of it.

renc9828 · March 2012

Right around a year. I don't remember exactly. Wow, I am not very much help.

mamabrof · March 2012

6 months.

insertclevername · March 2012

I started covering him with a blanket at 12 months. At home he also still gets a wearable blanket because he usually moves around so much the regular blanket comes off.

EVA116 · March 2012

LilyRose28:
7 months with a crocheted blanket. Now he has 3 blankets.

Yes

Yules · March 2012

We swaddled him until he was 10 weeks, then went straight to a blanket.

SoDoMojo · March 2012

He went straight from being swaddled in his bassinet to sleeping w/ a blanket in his crib. His blanket is his lovey tho - not for warmth at all.

MirandaLea29 · March 2012

We switched from sleep sacks to blankets in November (so 1 year, 1 month). She was chewing on the zipper of the sleep sack and my husband was really grossed out by it so we switched her. It wasn't a difficult transition, but it did take about a week for her to get used to the blankets as well as learn how to cover herself back up during the night.

thedash · March 2012

Right around 9 months. He didn't fit in his 6-9 month sized sleep sacks anymore and I didn't want to buy new ones so I tried a blanket and that's what he's been using since.

He has a small but fairly warm blanket on him and a small thin fuzzy blanket which is my failed attempt at establishing a "lovey" that is not mama. Both end up in a ball under him but he sleeps fine.

kcl22 · March 2012

He hates sleeping with covers on top of him, he always kicks them off, but I started putting a blankie in his crib with him at 9 months or so.

princessvespa1 · March 2012

From day 1. We never did sleep sacks, always blankets. And he has 2 loveys in his crib as well.

choppinbroccoli22 · March 2012

UO alert

I rolled a blanket Surprise to prop my daughter in alternate side-lying positions since the day she came home. Because I personally have done a lot of research and I don't believe in the back to sleep program. I got her an organic mattress so that the PBDE chemicals would never mix with mold to produce toxic gas.

choppinbroccoli22 · March 2012

GhostMonkey:
Phew. There are a couple that will get CPS called on them before me.

I think 4 months.

I think that's them at my door.

delg23 · March 2012

I don't remember exactly but many months before now but probably after 12 months. I just gauged it based off of when I thought he was ready.

momofmanyinthemitten · March 2012

I let her have her A & A blankets at about 6 mos. They are her loveys. We used a fleece blanket a few nights this winter when the wind was really blowing, but she usually wears a fleece sleepsack so I know she'll be covered-a blanket would never stay on all night.

st.augbride · March 2012

We haven't yet and still use sleep sacks. I just don't think he'd keep it on. I do want to comment on the pp who said they did research on the back to sleep program...SIDS has decreased by 50% since that program was implemented.

saturdaynightdoubletree · March 2012

RayRay007:
Since the day she was born.

this too.

LadyXaverian · March 2012

She still doesn't have anything in her crib.

ETA: And here I thought I would be in the majority!

smitt2619 · March 2012

mainerocks:
I'm still using sleep sacks. Not necessarily because of safety at this point, but because they stay on and so I don't worry about him getting cold at night (we live in the north and keep the house cool).

This exactly. Until age 1, it was for the risk of SIDS and suffocation, now it's just practical. And it's part of the routine. We use the Halo ones with foot holes now, and LOVE them!

SuperThat1006 · March 2012

Probably 13-14 months. Would have been comfortable letting her sleep with a blanket earlier, but it was summer and fall here and she didn't need it.

SnoopyLuv · March 2012

We bedshared until 7 months. She was in a sleepsack until she started crawling a lot and standing up- so about 10 months old or so? She now has about 5 of them in there. All her blankets are her loveys.

[Deleted User] · March 2012

mbenit4:
RayRay007:
Since the day she was born.

This is me too with both kids.

Us too. Swaddled with a blankie, then a fleece sleep sack, then at a year we dropped the sack & just used a blankie.

PeonyPumps · March 2012

We still do Sleep sacks only because we still have ones he was given that still fit. I think that I will keep using sleep sacks or heavier pjs until I'm comfortable that if he were cold, he could understand and motorically accomplish pulling the blanket back over himself. We're not there yet.

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