Sleeping bags / blankets etc

[JadeyB]

Am expecting my first in a couple of months, and have started to think about bedding. I am a real worrier, and this is really stressing me out!

We have decided that certainly when baby is older we will use sleeping bags - I know several people who use them and swear by them, but I am feeling really worried about what to do when the baby is newborn.

We have ordered a 0-6 1 tog sleeping bag from babies r us, which they say is suitable from 7lbs, but I am still not sure.

But on the other hand - HOW do you use blankets with a newborn?? I get that you change the number of layers depending on temperature etc, but it is the logistics of what you actually DO with the blanket that is confusing me! Do you kind of lie it over them across their chests and then tuck it under them? Or lie it over then tuck it round the mattress? Or something totally different??? I am so worried about baby wiggling under!
Baby due first week of August, so should be quite warm by then.

Help!

Hey honey,

I've been researching this as much as possible.

This is a pretty good website - https://fsid.org.uk/Page.aspx?pid=418

Click on the View the Sleep simple sleep safe resource at the bottom of the page.

I think you need to be careful with the tog on your sleeping bag. The grobags are apparently very good - https://www.gro.co.uk/. I've not ordered any yet.

Also if you want a cool thermometer the gro egg is fab. It changes colour depending on whether your room is too cold, just right or too hot and with the instructions it tells you how many blankets or what tog sleeping bag you need for baby depending on the colour of your egg.

HTH

xxx

 

[sunshine114]

Thanks, I was looking in to a gro egg as well. Does the egg come with bedding instructions? Sorry if I'm being really thick, my head is not with it this morning!

 

[Peej20]

Thanks, I was looking in to a gro egg as well. Does the egg come with bedding instructions? Sorry if I'm being really thick, my head is not with it this morning!

We got the groegg and used it last night just to see how the temperature in our room was even though baby's not due til July!
The instructions say bedding for temp 16-20 degrees (which is recommended) is 2.5 or 1.0 tog sleeping bay with bodysuit/sleepsuit or for sheet and blanket users sheet and 2 lightweight blankets with nappy, vest and sleepsuit.

 

[sunshine114]

Thanks, I was looking in to a gro egg as well. Does the egg come with bedding instructions? Sorry if I'm being really thick, my head is not with it this morning!

We got the groegg and used it last night just to see how the temperature in our room was even though baby's not due til July!
The instructions say bedding for temp 16-20 degrees (which is recommended) is 2.5 or 1.0 tog sleeping bay with bodysuit/sleepsuit or for sheet and blanket users sheet and 2 lightweight blankets with nappy, vest and sleepsuit.

Just out of interest - what did you find the temperature in your room to be? Ours is kind of 'normal', we don't have the heating on overnight at all (only when we had the really bad snow in January this year), and it is only on for a few hours in the morning and some in the evening, but each room has a temperature thing on the radiator so it comes on if it needs to.
I've been worrying about whether we are going to have to go much colder or hotter than our usual...

 

[JadeyB]

We are exactly the same and it doesn't feel too cold in our room, but at the moment it s ranges from just below 16 to just above. When the heating is on it only goes up to about 17/18. I don't know if our heating is very efficient, we think we need new seals on the windows.

xx

 

[bky]

We learned how to make a baby bed (cot, moses basket etc) in my antenatal class. Here is a video (pushing some product, but you can use whatever just by folding the sheets and blankets under the mattress). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sel6mdudt68&feature=related

 

[Peej20]

The temp in our room was 18 which was perfect. We live in a 1st floor flat so it's kept warm from above and below but it can get quite hot in the summer so we'll be able to keep an eye on it with the groegg now.

 

[sunshine114]

We are exactly the same and it doesn't feel too cold in our room, but at the moment it s ranges from just below 16 to just above. When the heating is on it only goes up to about 17/18. I don't know if our heating is very efficient, we think we need new seals on the windows.

xx

That sounds just like us, I always wonder how our windows don't fall out in a gale!