Selecting
Sleeping Gear: Newborn - 2 Years
Limiting your choices to COTTON doesn't mean you have to sacrifice
quality at a low price!
By: Rebecca Bahlmann
It is now widely known, that
Sudden infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) has been reduced 60% by
taking the following precautions:
- Avoid all objects in the baby’s crib – no toys, blankets or bumpers, no quilts or things hanging nearby that could fall on baby’s head.
- Avoid co-sleeping in the same bed!
- Putting baby to sleep on his back
- Making sure it is not too hot in the room (we keep the temperature
around 67-68 F in Winter and 77-79 F in the summer)
- Making sure that there is no loose clothing or any other material near
baby’s head, mouth and nose, such as collars or that hats are tied on if
used.
- SWADDLING BABY AND LATER USING A SLEEPING BAG MADE OF COTTON
Here are the products we
found the most useful
At the beginning we swaddled
our baby with the hospital blanket, which we took with us by mistake. I then
bought various “blankets” to swaddle her with, that were made of cotton. The
reason why they say to use cotton is, because cotton is made from a plant, it
has fibers, which are made of cells, which let the air in and out, i.e. if
baby is too hot, the heat can escape it’s body through the swaddle and thus
ensure that it does not get too hot.
Fleece and acrylic fibers
are artificial and DO NOT let out the air or let it in. While, if baby
sweats the water may wick off however the heat stays on the inside of the swaddle.
So use cotton with 3% or
more spandex so that it stretches a little.
We then later started to use
Swaddle me blankets
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Swaddle Me Wraps
From: $8.99 - $25
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which have a Velcro clasp
to ensure baby does not wiggle out of it in the night. They come in fleece
and cotton and we used cotton, except when we traveled to England where our
relatives turn the heat off at night and there we used the fleece one.
Again, the older the baby gets, the less dangerous fleece is, but in general
I would always use the cotton ones.
Then later still, when she
was about 9 months I think, we started to use sleeping bags for babies by babyinabag.com.
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Babyinabag - Baby Sleeping Bags
From: $14.95 - $29.95+
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Consider ONLY LARGE sizes |
The reason why I chose this
company is, they are made of cotton, they are warm, have an upside down
zipper, are safe and look very nice. We recommend you only buy the LARGE
size, as babies grow out of the small sizes too quickly and having a little
extra room down at their feet doesn't bother them a bit.
We got one for the summer
and one for the winter and Elizabeth looks so sweet in them; they have an
old world charm, no garish colors, but nice yellows and greens and they seem
to get softer the more we wash them. They also fasten safely and have extra
buttons around the arm holes so that you can use a large one on a smaller
baby and then when she grows, not close the buttons. Our only complaint
about these sleeping bags is that the smaller sized sleeping bag had a
zipper that got stuck and in freeing it, several teeth on the zipper got
dislodged. We have not had this problem with the larger sizes.
Having the snaps under the arms is a nice feature!
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