Child Sleeping with Pillow and Blanket

My kids had blankets from pretty much day 1. Usually the lightweight receiving blankets. They would never stay in a swaddle so we just used the blankets to cover them. They didn't have pillows until they were out of the crib. Usually around 2 years.

I think my dd was about a year and a half when she started trying to curl up on the pillows on the couch, so we let her have one in her bed. She was born in January, so she pretty much always had some sort of blanket.

depends on the blanket. My babies always had blankets. But they weren't big thick quilts. They were little plisse (sp?) ones that my mom made. Super lightweight cotton (like a sheet almost) with stitched edges. Then, as the weather got colder, they would have the little baby blankets that were micro fleece. But they were wrapped in them (swaddled).

For enough warmth in winter, they also were in sleepers. They didn't have a pillow until they were in an actual bed, not in a crib. So a minimum of 18 months, but it was probably older. They are 11 & 14 years, now, so I can't remember exactly.

FWIW, in my later years (just in the past year or so), I find that I sleep more comfortably without a pillow at all. I will wake up in the night and feel like my neck is too crooked, and so I just push the pillow up against the headboard and lie on my back without it. And I don't have a big thick pillow---it is down, so it is super soft and squishes down. I just recently noticed that I like it without it sometimes. There really is no rush to provide a pillow to your little one.

I let my kids use a blanket from about 6 months. I didn't let them use a pillow until about 16 months.

swaddled until about 5 months
blanket at about a year or so
a KIDS pillow not until about age 2 1/2 (not needed before then). I say
"Kids" pillow because it is approved, not to mushy or too hard. Too mushy an it can be a danger.
blanket came at about age 2.

I've always let my babies have a blanket. And stuffed animals, lol. And a pillow at 1 year. :)

Blanket since day 1. Pillow at 2(a small one). The blankets have grown in size as my child has grown.

Once my kids were old enough to sleep in a real bed (2 years), they were old enough to have pillows and blankets. I bought a little toddler pillow for my older son - it was a perfect size. By the time his brother stopped sleeping in the crib, he was ready for a regular sized pillow.

Dawn

We moved my daughter to a toddler bed at 16 months and she has had a blanket and pillow since then. She had the pillow at the foot of her bed for many months before she showed interest in it and it was probably closer to 20 months before she wanted to use it