Why don’t parents let their babies sleep outside anymore?

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All my four slept outside in the back garden during the day, suitably clothed for the time of year. I did have a big pram, but today’s prams are just as suitable. So why dont your babies sleep outside?

Oh look, there’s two more posts explaining why that I have imagined.

Mine did, they are 12, 9 and 7. Would pop the Priam in the garden, put them to sleep! Ds1 slept for longer out there than he did inside during the day (had a fly/cat net over the Pram).

@DonnyAndVladSittingInATree

I wouldn't waste my breath

Still no one has said why they do it? What’s the purpose?

I'm assuming because fresh air is amazing, and if they're well wrapped up and warm and in a secure outside environment in plain view, would be good for them.
Houses can get stuffy with central heating.

Because if your child sleeps you’ll do it, whether it’s indoors, outdoors, wearing them, co-sleeping. Especially when they’re as bad as sleeping as mine are.

If she falls asleep in her pram during a walk I’ll leave her in the back garden till she wakes herself. Especially in winter when she’s all bundled up anyway. Not risking waking her to undress and she’d be too hot in the house

Ok here’s the real reason, it’s because there is a fairy who drops tenners into the prams of babies spotted sleeping outside. No idea why. She just does. And I like tenners so....

Itsbetter- there's been 3 types of reasons.

1 - answers around it being perceived as "good for the child in some way.

2 - it gets them to sleep.

3 - old fashioned view that you got them into a routine/to sleep and you didn't hear them cry.

Also various mentioned of falling asleep while out for a walk etc.

I did not. On the basis that I like sleeping in a warm bed inside and wouldn’t fancy sleeping outside irrespective of how wrapped up I was. I therefore couldn’t justify it with my baby. Plus the issue of urban foxes.

I wouldn't want to sleep outside in the cold so why would I plonk my baby there? Increased risk of sids to be left when little and I'm not going to sit in my garden in January when I could be on the sofa all cosy!

I apologise if this has already been answered, but in the countries where this is a more accepted thing e.g. Scandinavian countries, do they not have the same sids advice as we do?

I used to take DS out at least once a day in a pram to get him to sleep, as he refused to nap in his cot, so he got the fresh air. Usually involved a brisk walk round the local park, but I think I only ever left him outside in the back garden on his own once.

Think it did me good to go on the walks too. Did mean the housework didn't get done though

I wouldn't want to sleep outside in the cold so why would I plonk my baby there?

I love the idea of plonking myself out into a garden on a cold day and having a nap! If I've got a warm blanket, I'd be sorted.
Just shows we're all different.

Cappuccino
Thank you
I didn’t read those as reasons as they make little sense/need further explanation.
Seems people don’t really have an actual reason then

Outside air isn’t ‘fresher’ it’s just colder.

I get the idea of fresh air = good sleep. In calm weather I think being outdoors is very conducive to sleeping. Fresh air, breezes, background sounds. Lots of babies do sleep well outdoors and mine did.
If there's a safe place ( obviously) its a lovely thing to do.

I apologise if this has already been answered, but in the countries where this is a more accepted thing e.g. Scandinavian countries, do they not have the same sids advice as we do?

They have a lower SIDS rate than the UK and some other western countries. Many Scandi families still use cot bumpers too, as that's not been advised again, but statistically it has made zilch difference to SIDS stats.

If outside air isn’t fresher than what we have inside why do we open windows?

Well some people open windows. Other (weird) people live in their own stale air week after week.

I didn’t. But we live facing onto a busy road and I would have had to take a double buggy through the small house out to the yard. It wasn’t worth the hassle.

I did take them out for a walk most days and as they were born in January it was pretty fresh!

It used to be the thing that babies slept in prams outside. I'm not sure it was a good idea in hindsight, especially in winter. Even wrapped up well babies still have to breathe in cold air which makes them more susceptible to colds etc. So in hindsight, although I did it, I don't think it was a good thing. Also don't agree that prams today are as good as the old ones, they only seem to cater for babies up to three months.

Well I suppose it depends where you live BOx but yes, I do think the air outside is fresher than recirculated air in a house.

I can't be bothered to argue about it and don't have any science to back it up but I feel like it's just fresher outdoors. I like open windows and going out for walks for that reason.

My house isn't on the side of a main road either.

Donny
To make it colder. Because people like the idea of ‘freshness’. But it’s just mentally pleasing.

It’s not fresher because no house is vacuum and because we use a very small amount of the oxygen in the air in respiration.
It’s just colder outside or smells different.

Yeah, I just want my house colder. In January. It pleases me mentally.