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poshBecks
31-05-2006, 15:08
Connor will not sleep under covers. He freaks out if you try & pull them up on him. So at the moment I have been layering his clothes.
he wears a tracksuit under one of those all in one fleecy suits then hid dressing gown over that....
its getting soooo cold in the mornings now. how else can i keep him warm apart from a heater? he's 2 btw. i dont think i can fit another layer on him.
can you get thermal underwear for toddlers?
borntobemummy
31-05-2006, 15:11
he's eventually going to need to learn to go under the covers. How about a sleeping bag with his favourite character on it?
poshBecks
31-05-2006, 15:16
maybe... but he really freaks out!! even if i sneak in before i go to bed & pull them up... he still freaks out.
i've tried to make a game of it during the day... but so far i have failed. i'm not sure how a sleeping bag will go.
i know that he will work out its warmer under the covers one day, but until then i have to warm him up somehow...
My 2 year old is the same at the moment.....so I'm looking into getting some sleeping bags for him (my mum is also sewing some for him). I've been layering his clothes too, but he likes to take off his socks, so his feet are like ice in the morning - feel sooo guilty.....In the UK we had central heating, so my issues were always worrying about over-heating them!
lukaelmo
31-05-2006, 15:22
Why no heater?
Our heater is in storage and I am going to get it out today - it was freezing here last night, wasn't it? I had Luka in two singlets, an all-in-one singlet, wondersuit and then a fleecy-lined sleeping sack. He looked hilarious, but it kept him warm :D . I think the trick is singlets, close to the skin = warmth.
Samuel is the same Becky...
I use a singlet and then thermal top and then flannel pj's, thick bed socks and a sleeping bag.
He doesnt wake so he must be ok
Maybe take him to Spotlight (or somewhere like that) and let him choose some fleece material (there are some great fun prints available - Samuel chose one with trucks and trains on it) and tell him if he likes he can have some as a special blanket on his bed.. maybe he will sleep with it then?
Play a game on the couch together and say that you are cold, and get a blanket and you snuggle up in it, cover up dolls ad teddies saying they are cold, and once the blanket is on they are nice and warm. Then try to cover him up to.
It is such a pain when they keep kicking the covers off. I like those all in one fleecy suits you can buy from target they go up to size 6 I think. The other thing I did to keep feet warm was put on tights, even my ds wore tights but I got plain colours for him. He couldn't take them off and worked really well, just if you use just make sure they aren't too tight and I found the cotton ones the nicest.
poshBecks
31-05-2006, 15:35
Why no heater?
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As he is no longer in a cot... he will more than likely burn himself on it. Heater worked great last year. Dont want to risk it this year though.
We do play under the cover games. but when it comes to bed time he doesn't like that much.
Hey Becky :)
We have a little fan type heater in Andrews room - but we have it on top of a chest of drawers where he can't reach it, and where the cord is behind the cabinet. Do you have anything like that you could put a heater up on? You could also put the heater on a timer, so its not on all night, we do that sometimes.
I saw on telly the other day too that you can now get a lot of heaters that are wall-mounted. Maybe another solution?
Andrew is only 15 months but also detests covers. We just dress him in layers as well, and he is fine with it. So cute and cuddly too! We're heading to Adelaide in a fortnight, so we'll see how he deals with the extra layers when we are there! He'll look like a little snowbaby!
Good luck :)
poshBecks
31-05-2006, 15:45
Noo, thats a great idea. Yes we have a chest of drawers in his room. I didn't know that you could get fan heaters with a timer. Our oil heater has a timer.
If it was on ALL night, it would cost us a small fortune iykwim. But if it just turns on from about 3ish... it would do the trick i think. :rolleyes:
If you can't find one with a timer, you can always buy one of those 24hr timer plugs that goes into the wall that you then plug the heater into. Also very handy!
We tend to turn the heater on at night about an hour before Andrew goes to bed and warm up the room, then turn it off when he goes in (on paranoid nights!). Other nights when I'm not so freaked out, we set it to start again at about 3 in the morning :)
Hi there I have a Grobag Baby Sleeping bag as my son would not stay under the covers as he was such a wriggly baby. They are great as they are thermal rated which is what I like the best. No risk of overheating and you get a nursey thermometer with the sleeping bag telling you what to dress your child in accordning to what temp it is in the nursery.
Good Luck!
Kylie
poshBecks
31-05-2006, 21:07
Thanks. With the grobag sleeping bags... how does a 2 year walk around in one? I only ask because he will usually play in his room for a little while before I wake up in the morning & I dont want him to trip over iykwim. :rolleyes:
have you ever heard of the brand SNUGTIME the are a thick all in one like a sleeping bag but like a wounder suit so he can still walk and stuff... ther are very thick LIKE 5 layers thick they are fantastic cos luke who is one freaks out with blankets too.... they cost a little but are fantastic.. i am sure you can get them from target too... pm me for more info....
hope thats helps
The other thing I did to keep feet warm was put on tights, even my ds wore tights but I got plain colours for him. He couldn't take them off and worked really well, just if you use just make sure they aren't too tight and I found the cotton ones the nicest.
I did the same thing for my DS last 2 winters. Hehas always hated having thick layers of clothes on, but also kicked the blankets off most nights too. He would either sleep in tights, a singlet, long sleeve bodysuit (helped the tights stay up), then either flannel pj's or a tracksuit over all that and socks on his feet...or he would wear the pj's, singlet and socks under a fleecy sleeping bag.
Oh, and a beanie and mittens help keep them warm too :thumbsup: that's if you can get bub to leave them on.
whatwasithinking
31-05-2006, 23:40
Hannah is exactly the same.
I just put jarmies on her and over time she learns to put the covers on her (DH is the same so I guess like father like daughter).
I've told her that if she gets cold then it's noones fault but her own. Harsh words I'm sure to some but hey it works.
Thanks. With the grobag sleeping bags... how does a 2 year walk around in one? I only ask because he will usually play in his room for a little while before I wake up in the morning & I dont want him to trip over iykwim. :rolleyes:
Samuel walks perfectly fine in his, never been an issue
FourAngelKisses
31-05-2006, 23:46
Matthew had a Bonds sleeping bag last winter. I got him size 2 in the hope he could wear it this winter, but he was too tall for it by October....oh well. He managed to walk around in it, he looked like an oversized hot water bottle, lol.
Living in an area where it gets down to -10 at nights, I wanted something that would keep him really warm, and with the Bonds one, he ended up not needing to wear socks at night, his feet would sweat because of the sleeping bag.
twins+another
01-06-2006, 09:30
I've got the blanket sleepers for my two. They are like wondersuits made out of blanket weight polar fleece. I'm pretty sure they go up to size 7 and are available at Target. They are about $35.00 but are worth every cent.
Ive been running a heater in James' room, I did an online calculation of the heating costs and to run a 2000w heater for 12 hours = approx $370 a quarter, so I run it at 750w all night and it takes the chill out of the air.
FourAngelKisses
01-06-2006, 20:00
The year Jacob was born, we were renting this really old house and it was so cold that it snowed in September and October that year. Anyway, we found out that the meter for the electricity was stuck so to keep him warm at night (it would end up below zero in the house, ridiculous) we would run a bar heater in his room all night. We had a smoke alarm above his bed just in case, but at least he got to stay warm without having 60 blankets on his bed. We got a power bill 3mths later. $55 for heating the hot water, $17 for electricity and wehad been running the heater all night every night for 3mths.
poshBecks
01-06-2006, 20:11
Alrighty so the general consenses (sp?) seems to be that a sleeping bag would be a great option, & walking around in it shouldn't be a prob..... Might try it out....
Thanks everyone for your help!! :D
Tam-I-Am
01-06-2006, 22:38
Hey Becca,
No-one else posted the links, so when I was researching the same thing for DD, who stopped being wrapped at 8 months, but refuses to sleep under covers, I looked at all the sleeping bags.
I settled on grobags - http://www.grobag.com.au/ and you can buy them at http://www.bumpto3.com.au/
Also have a look at the snugtime ones - they're cheaper, but i haven't tried them, so I don't know what they're like - http://www.snugtime.com.au/
Good luck. Wriggly houdini bubs are painful, aren't they :o
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