What age to ditch the sleep sack?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our 18-month old is still in his sleep sack and I hate that I'm going to have to spend $$ to get the next size (and yes, in the scheme of child costs it isn't that too, but still!). We tried to transition him this summer and it was an absolute freaking nightmare. We will never transition again until he asked to get out of it. I'm thinking that I'll have to make one out of a sleeping bag when he's 10 years old.

Does your neighborhood have lots of other moms? We just rotate sleepsacks through our neighborhood moms listserv.

[Anonymous]

Baby Dee Dee sleep sacks are much longer than the Halo ones. My tall 18 month old is wearing one and there's lots of room left. Bought it on Amazon.

[Anonymous]

Also check Babyinabag.com, they are not that expensive.

[Anonymous]

We transitioned DS off it at 2.75, and we did gave a few rough nights, but he adjusted and went back to being a great sleeper. He was starting preschool and moving to a toddler bed so we told him there were no sleepsacks there. He was in the last size of the brand we've loved (Swaddle Designs--the 12-18m size fit a 60th percentile kiddo till 2.75, FWIW) and I didn't want to go hunting for a new brand when we had a good window to wean him off it. We did buy a special blanket for his new bed and made a big deal about that.

[Anonymous]

My almost 3-yr-old is still using hers. She kicks off any covers not attached to her.

[Anonymous]

We dropped the sleep sack about a month ago when our son (15 mo at the time) outgrew the large size and I was too cheap to buy another set. I was so sure he'd be waking up more because of kicking off his blanket but it hasn't been an issue yet. I'm still a bit worried about how it will be as it gets colder in the house in winter, but so far it's gone well.

[Anonymous]

We use the halo sleep sacks with the foot holes for our 2.5 year old. He refuses to sleep with a blanket touching him! Didn't need it in the summer but just reintroduced it with the cooler weather.

[Anonymous]

H&M sells larger sleep sacks.

[Anonymous]

H&M sells larger sleep sacks.