Earliest age for a pillow?

[amldaley]

Dd is 14+ months now. She STILL does not sleep well in her crib. When in our bed or even playing on the sofa, she always finds a pillow to rest her head on. She sleeps so much better that way. In her crib, she often sleeps with both hands up underneath her head.

When can we add a small "toddler" pillow to her crib???

[twowhat?]

In Baby 411 they say it's fine to use an airline travel-sized pillow in the crib after 12 months of age.

[amldaley]

In Baby 411 they say it's fine to use an airline travel-sized pillow in the crib after 12 months of age.

Thank you! I leant both BB and Baby 411 books out and it's killing me not being able to look stuff up!!!!

[citymama]

I think we intro'd a toddler pillow (NOT a full-sized pillow) at 15 or 16 months.

[bubbaray]

IIRC, it was around 18m.

[SnuggleBuggles]

We waited till ds1 was like 3yo and out of the crib. But, ds2 got a pillow before 12m b/c it helped him when he had a cold and I was looking to earn bad mom of the year. ;)

Beth

[Accountant]

DD is 16m and exactly the same. I am going to introduce a pillow, and if that doesn't work, I may upgrade to a different mattress, perhaps foam.

[AlbrightRC]

Our son was sleeping with a small pillow from the time he was 6 months. When we picked him up in Ethiopia we noticed most of the cribs had pillows in them.

[tnrnchick74]

He got a small travel size pillow around 12 months - when he started using his blankets as pillows!

[happymom]

I dont know if this is any better than a pillow, but DD sleeps with the bottom part of a sleep positioner- those side pillows are removed. Like this one- http://www.amazon.com/Sassy-Ultimate-Sleep-Positioner-White/dp/B000C4PXTM/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=baby-products&qid=1256744759&sr=1-3

[amldaley]

I dont know if this is any better than a pillow, but DD sleeps with the bottom part of a sleep positioner- those side pillows are removed. Like this one- http://www.amazon.com/Sassy-Ultimate-Sleep-Positioner-White/dp/B000C4PXTM/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=baby-products&qid=1256744759&sr=1-3

ha!!! WE HAVE THIS! I never thought to try it. Going to go dig it out now as we haven't used in it in ages...thanks for the idea!

[happymom]

ha!!! WE HAVE THIS! I never thought to try it. Going to go dig it out now as we haven't used in it in ages...thanks for the idea!

Oh good! Hope it helps. Just for the record, DD *falls asleep* on that pillow, but is nowhere near it in the morning! :)

[codex57]

DS and DD both used pillows basically from birth. Really flat ones hand made by my MIL, but they did.

DD is almost 2 months now, we noticed she sleeps a lot better on our pillows. Granted, her whole body is lying on the pillow, but she goes 3 hours now instead of 1-2 on her crib mattress. On our personal mattress too. Both kids seem to be able to tell the nicer mattresses from the cheaper ones. I wouldn't sleep well on the crap they use in cribs either.

[Babymakes3]

DS has been sleeping with a full size pillow off our bed since right before 12 months. We were lucky if he made it a couple hours at night and naps weren't so great either. One day I put a pillow in there for some reason and napped for 3 hours, i thought it was a fluke so I left it in there for the night and he didn't wake up once. However i got no sleep that night constantly checking on him but he has been fine every time! It's still in there but he's not really using it anymore, i tried to take it out and he slept terrible again so I just leave it there, must be comforting to him. (btw we co-slept for like 8 months)