Toddler pillow recommendations ??

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My son is 21 months old and I’ve been noticing him  using his stuffed animal as a pillow sometimes (though most of the time it’s thrown out of his crib by the morning). I also noticed he thought it was great snuggling up with me on my pillow when we were camping in the trailer. 
When should I offer a toddler pillow into his crib? Is he too young still? 
What about a blanket? He seems to hate at least having his feet covered by a blanket and we don’t have AC in our house so I’m not quite sure he’s ready for one of those but is it too soon to offer a pillow? 
Which one do you recommend? 
Please no bashing for not having him set up with more of a “bed like” setting at this age yet, I’m a first time mom and our pediatrician didn’t mention any of this at his 18 month appointment so I’m literally just taking cues from my little guy as we go. 
Thanks!

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I may get crap for this but my kids had blankets around 8 months, pillows at year and as many stuffed in bed as they wanted. They all got twin beds at a year to year n half skipped toddler beds. Got 6 kids. 4 out of 6 are who I speak of my twins 5 months old

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Regular pillow but just one that’s more flat.

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I got my daughter stuff when I transitioned her to a toddler bed (21 months). TBH she rarely has her head on the pillow and she kicks covers off a lot but she really enjoyed ‘being in a big girl bed’. I just searched toddler pillow on Amazon and got one. When it came it seemed WAY too thick for someone who had been sleeping with no pillow the night before... so I cut a hole in it and removed about 3/4 of the stuffing. I don’t think you’re behind it’s good to read your kids cues. I transitioned my daughter because we will need the crib in a little for her new sister, and I potty trained her so I wanted her to be able to get out of bed and pee during the night.

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We use a pillow pet for our kids.

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I got my toddler a flat pillow when she was just over 2. Before that she hadn’t shown any signs of wanting/needing one. She’s now almost 4, a couple of months back we got her a slightly thicker pillow as she was starting to sleep on her toys. I got both of them from amazon. She won’t need anything thicker now but as she gets older we will get her a full size pillow. With regards to the blanket, she had a blanket from an early ish age I guess, just one of her baby blankets. Then when we transitioned her into her big girl bed she got a sheet and toddler type quilt (still very light) that was around 20 months. She always kicked her blankets off. At about 3 we got her a twin bed and she has a sheet and quilt (heavier/thicker than the previous one). She has only just gotten to the point where she will tuck herself under the sheets to keep snug, she rarely kicks them off anymore. 
Like you we just kinda followed her lead, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that.

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I got my daughter a toddler pillow off amazon around 2 but she likes the full sized pillow in her twin bed cuz its bigger and doesnt move around as much as the light little toddler pillows so we only used the toddler pillow for a short while. Was a waste of money for us. We got her a good claritin pillow at bed bath and beyond and she sleeps great on it.

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I’d say he’s plenty old enough to try a pillow if you want! We started using a blanket around a year old with our daughter. She has a blanket shes obsessed with and wouldn’t sleep without it.