QOTD -Cribs

[kartish]

So, F15, what's in your child's crib or sleeping area? DH thinks V would sleep better with a pillow, which I doubt because he is all over in there. Anyway, I thought I'd see if we were the only ones with an empty crib still.

[mmarie]

A stuffed animal and a small blanket. Kid us all over the bed right now. There is no way we could a pillow and real blanket. Or maybe that would keep her in one place. Huh. Maybe I'll experiment this weekend.

[aggiebug]

I laugh at the pillow purely because DD would 1) think of it as a toy and play with it and 2) moves all night long and wouldn't stay on it more than 5 minutes.


DD has a knit blanket and her bunny in the crib. She routinely pulls her elephant in off the shelf as well as a few other stuffed animals she can reach / pull through the slats.

[lilyelayne]

DS has a teddy bear, a stuffed gator, and a muslin blanket. He wouldn't notice if he didn't have the stuffed animals, he just plays with them when he wakes up, but he snuggles the muslin blanket for sure. All over the place still so no idea about a pillow's usefulness.

[dmorgendorffer]

DD has a stuffed lamb and a little bear she sleeps with. She does hold both onto both of them sometimes, and plays with them when she wakes up. She also has a glow worm she generally ignores but I have come in for a MOTN wake up and found her sitting with it on a few times. No blanket, maybe we'll start letting her have one.

[danitaec]

My dude has a small stuffed dog and a flannel receiving blanket. He also goes to bed with a burp cloth each night.

[dreemkin]

She has the taggies dog and a thin/light blanket. She doesn't even stay in one spot to keep the blanket on so no pillow for now. I'm sure kids are ready for that at different times though. I can't remember when we gave DD1 a pillow but it was a travel size one and it was perfect size and thickness. I didn't want her head to be so propped up it hurt her little neck, IYKWIM.

PS: isn't it cute when they snuggle something? I hear the bell in her stuffed dog throughout the night and it means she's found it and pulled it close to her

[dreemkin]

badw0lf forgive me if I'm just burnt out today but what does BMO stand for?

[mishka29]

What does QOTD stand for?

LO has her lovie and that's it. DD1 was moved into a single bed with side rails at 18 months (booted for her sister) and she still slept like she was in a crib and flipping around like a fish. We tried a toddler pillow a few time but it was pointless. It was probably about 2.5 years that she was finally keeping her head at the right end of the bed and could use a pillow successfully.

[lilyelayne]

mishka29 question of the day

[krispy83]

DD has a blanket at naptime but not at night, mostly because she's in footie pjs and would probably be too warm with both. Also a lovey that she's just meh on. DS was all about his from a pretty early age so he always had that too. We gave him a pillow around 20 months - he had a cold and we gave it to him to prop him up a little and he got attached. Before that, he would have been all over the place too much to use one.

[kartish]

V has a couple of stuffed animals, but he only tosses them out once he wakes up, no cuddling. He has a blanket at nap time but not at night. He does now have a tiny and thin pillow in his crib, which he promptly rolled off of after I put him in the crib, lol.

[tortor4]

C has a thicker blanket, an A+A blanket I rock her to sleep with, two stuffed animals and just recently a pillow. The pillow and thicker blanket happened because she threw up on her sleep sack MOTN and I'm so paranoid about her getting too cold. The pillow helps her stay asleep when I lay her in her crib and I've noticed she's flopping around slightly less since using it.

[mmarie]

dreemkin I know exactly what you mean about the sore neck. My nephew and his wife put their 1 year old in a toddler bed with a really thick pillow. He isn't ready for the toddler bed and always ends up on the floor but I can't imagine how sore his neck would be if he actually used the pillow.

[mmarie]

She also doesn't really care about the stuffed animal. She will play a little before bed and when she wakes up but she NEEDS a blanket. Even when she's awake.

[maryxc1]

DD has a blanket, several pacis, two small stuffed animals, and a board book or two. I don't remember when we started using a toddler pillow with DS, but I think he was two or close to it.

[seamonster]

Just a stuffed giraffe. He sleeps in a sleep sack at home and daycare. The sack was easier than a blanket since we never did swaddling and he moves around to much now for a blanket. They make sleep sacks up to 3 year old size so I can keep him in one for a long time.

[Deleted]

DD has a pillow and blanket, and has had for quite some time. She doesn't always stay on the pillow during the night but she loves to cuddle it when we put her in the crib. She also had some soft toys and a book or two.

[kaydee0402]

DS has a knit blanket, a few stuffed toys, and Dumbo pillow that he sometimes sleeps on.

[maryxc1]

I just noticed that I think I'm the only one who mentioned pacis. Am I the only one who hasn't fought the paci battle yet or did everybody else just not list them? I do plan to start limiting them to sleep time soon. I was waiting until after the weaning process. (I have no excuse for putting it off the past couple weeks.)

[mmarie]

maryxc1 we also had a ton of pacis in her crib but it has become a game to throw them out though. She keeps one in her mouth and tosses the rest. The only time she gets a paci is when she is sleeping and I'm OK with that for awhile. It helps her sleep and she has no issues falling back to sleep if she ever does wake up as long as she has a paci.

[mmarie]

And getting rid of the paci during the day wasn't really a huge issue. A lot better than I thought it would go. We just gradually quit giving them to her. Now though she carries around a blanket everywhere.

[dreemkin]

We dropped the paci during the day early on. I'm just personally not a fan of them. Plus, our pediatrician said they're not good (at her one year appointment) so we dropped it at night around 1.

I think I'm like the only anti-pacifier one here. Party of 1 lol.

[aggiebug]

maryxc1 DD hasn't liked a paci since she was about 3 or 4 months old. She is a thumb sucker. So no pacis here but it was her choice. I actually make her keep her bunny (her primary comfort) in her crib because she sucks her thumb a lot more when carrying it.

[lilyelayne]

maryxc1 DS never liked a paci. He's not a comfort sucker- not a paci, not his thumb, not me.

[maryxc1]

I guess I'm a little behind cutting paci down to at least just sleeping. I honestly don't remember when I did it with DS. Oh well, at least there are some advantages to not having any teeth yet.

[kartish]

Apr 13, 2016 21:21:00 GMT -5 maryxc1 said:

I guess I'm a little behind cutting paci down to at least just sleeping. I honestly don't remember when I did it with DS. Oh well, at least there are some advantages to not having any teeth yet.

V still has to have his binks, at least two, at bedtime. And we haven't cut them off during the day yet. It will be easy to cut them to only in the crib, but cutting them out at nap time and bedtime will be hard.

[seamonster]

No advice. DS rarely takes one and usually just plays with it and chews on it. Several older wobblers in his class are still using them all the time.

[lilyelayne]

maryxc1 I used a paci at night & on long car trips until I was 3 or so. Had regular braces in middle school like most of my classmates, and my teeth are fine, so that's my anecdote.

[agm04]

Well my kid sleeps on the floor. Her sleep space is a pillow fort with nothing else in there (one side is my repurposed snoogle - score!), and she still sleeps with a pacifier. It's kind of a ridiculous set up actually, but we weren't getting any sleep for so long, and she's been sleeping 11-12 hours at night on the floor. So I'm going with it. She breaches the pillow wall sometimes and then gets upset, so I've had to reinforce it lately. Nothing bad has ever happened in her crib, but she acts like the world is ending if I try to get her to sleep in it.