Cosytoes in July...

[Bingdweller]

What's with all the babies/toddlers sweltering in their buggies buried under Cosytoes and usually a big thick coat too? I live in Scotland and it has been really mild, I just don't see the need to bury wee ones in so many layers at this time of year - especially in shopping centres!

I know it's the UK and we are not having much of a summer but surely a removable blanket would suffice? Keep seeing poor red-faced toddlers getting pushed about, they must be roasting!

I used the cosy toes last year because it let the air circulate and kept the sun off dd who's skin is nearly translucent! She was just in a vest underneath it though :)

Im never sure what to put on the pushchair at the moment I dont like blankets as my dts keep pulling them over their faces and they are front facing so have to stop every 2 mins to check-plus they kick them off. I agree with you that babies do seem to be over dressed though. I must confess Ive used the cosytoes once or twice this summer on the shittest of days (the weather has been awful) but now its sweltering I dont see the need for even a blanket like I keep seeing everywhere . Its so hard to know what to put on I started trying to go on what other mums are doing but I kid you not on one day in June it was overcast and sunny and mild and I saw a baby in cosytoes, a baby in a summerdress my own dts had light blankets (most likely smothering themselves) and Ive also seen on 2 occasions snowsuits! So now I dont give a crap what other people do I just do what I think is right and leave them to it!

My DS has a very bizarre allergy to the cold called cold urticaria (google it - it's real and i'm not a nutty overprotective mum :)). It means that he is often sporting a rather fetching trapper hat and thermal gloves when others might be wearing considerably less. It's very unlikely all these cozytoes toting babies have all got the same allergy, but it drives me nuts when people I don't know see fit to pass comment on my DSs strange attire.

YANBU, me and DD were at the park yesterday and it was warm enough for both of us to be bare armed and not in the least cold. There were kids from what must have been a nursery out for a walk, 3 double buggies and a couple of older ones walking accompanied by women in uniforms and all of the babies were cocooned up in fleece blankets, they must have been roasting.