Can my 2 year old have a pillow?

[megs193]

My son is 27 months old and loves laying on the pillow in my bed. Can I give him one in his crib? I feel like it should be safe but I wanted to get some other opinions. TIA

[Deleted]

Yes! My 2.5yr dd has 3. Haha
After a year it's considered safe. Even though I gave her one at 10m

[GotWine]

We gave DD a pillow at a year. She would often nap in the living room on a pillow by that point anyway so I figured she would be fine at night with it.

[ssmjlm]

We just gave E one at 17m. She's so/so on it.

We got a toddler ikea one.

[zeewifeandmama]

Yep. DS has used one for a while now.

[Brie]

My kid has had a pillow since he was a year old. It's fine.

[cobber06]

Yup- our pedi gave us the ok at a year, but I just bought them pillows a few weeks ago at 20 months. I just bought the cheapest/most flat ones they had at Target.

[Deleted]

B has a pillow but he sleeps face down without it most of the time. I gave it to him at a year.

[hocus2]

Yes. I gave my kid a small pillow around 2. Just make sure to offer something small and flat. A big adult pillow would probably be too big.

[yellowbrkrd]

Yep. M has been using one since 14 months.

[elocrates]

Yep. Target has rectangular travel pillows (they look just like a real pillow but are smaller). The only reason my 22 month old doesn't have a pillow is that I don't want him standing on it to crawl out of his crib. He uses a pillow for nap time at daycare, though.

[Velar Fricative]

We just bought a Len crib pillow from IKEA for DD (13 months). Need to wash it first but I noticed she liked lying down on our pillows so I figured she'd be fine with a small crib pillow.

[jinxy]

Yes. DS got one at 18 months and he loves it. I bought a toddler size pillow on amazon to use in his crib/crib-turned-toddler-bed.

[steph196]

My 2.5 year old has had one since about 15 months.

[anna7602]

DD was in a bed with blankets and pillows at 27 months, so I would say yes.

[YahYahs]

Absolutely.

[zarapipe]

Definately

[mpc]

our daycare started requiring a pillow at 18 months.

[BAMFMrsB]

He has 2 toddler-sized ones from IKEA in his crib. He has his own full-sized pillow, but I don't want him to have it in his crib. *-) 

[mlt]

Yes

[Deleted]

Definitely. My kids all had pillows by about 18 months. I just made sure they were really flat so they couldn't use them to scale the crib rails as easily (they never even tried).