Tuesday, 14 May 2013

Panic over pyjamas

So me and the wife spent half a day googling what we would need to put the baby in to sleep at night. We are currently moving home and therefore goong to be using the moses basket for the first few months.

There is not one way to do things, nor one website which says you need x y and z and you do this and our done.

We gathered you put the baby in a sleep suit or equivalent but then what? Which balnkets do u use? how many blankets? How do you know if there too warm?

One website was on about swaddling were you get a sheet or shawl ad wrap you baby like a mummy so it cant move an then wrap more blankets if its cold.

The second website suggested swaddling increased the risk of SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome) and advised simply tucking a blankets (add layers as appropriate) around the baby under the  armpits and tuck under mattress leaving there hands outside the blanket so they can move (scratch mittens are then used) an if using a cot place them at the bottom so they cant wriggle underneath them.

So after hours of research we finally decided for the later and ordered some moses blanket sheets to put over the mattress, some cellular blankets as its the summer and their cooler and we already have many sleep suits. 

So hopefully the new baby will sleep like a rock while we don't sleep at all due to worrying we got her pyjamas wrong

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