Draping sheets etc over child’s pushchair

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A bit of warm weather and seen my pet hate - parents who drape a towel, sheet, muslim cloth over their child’s pushchair.

Don’t they realise that this makes the area under the covering warmer? Plus babies can’t regulate temperature well.

They are better off with a clip on parasol. Then the air circulates.

Why do parents still do this habit of draping material over the pushchair?

Stop

I’ve done it with a damp muslin. Pegged to the pushchair hood. That way any air underneath was cool, and it had huge gaps at the side. My son always had/has really really fair skin like me and is capable of getting sunburn in the shade like me. When I was little I got sunburnt so badly I blistered. I wasn’t going to risk that happening to my baby

Slow cooked babies 😳

The hyperbole-ometer is going full throttle on this thread.

Snoozeshades are the best. Not that expensive, especially if second hand. And specifically designed.

It was 20°c here yesterday and I saw a probably 4/5 year old asleep (I hope) in a pushchair (another pet hate of mine) with a fleece blanket folded and draped over her 🙄 the poor kid was as red as a tomato

Oh get a grip. Cooking to death.
A light muslin hanging loosely over the top to shade the sun isn’t going to harm the baby.
a thick blanket tucked in at all sides on a boiling day yes, but I don’t think many people would be doing that

I’d tell you to fuck off and laugh I’m afraid.

Lovely. What nice language to use in front of a small child. So incompetent and potty mouthed.

I’ll let my supervising social worker know next time I see her.

They do it to try and block out light and visual distractions to encourage a baby to sleep.

Neither of mine would have slept with only a parasol - too interested in the world around them. I bought a special sun block pram cover designed to allow air flow & keep the temperature underneath cool.

They do. The women wear them on their head, no?

They did, Uppababy prams and buggies have that, one of the reasons why we bought it

Meh. Prams are basically plastic buckets, on a hot day they're not a good place for a baby anyway.

Absolutely wasn’t the case with my pram. It was so much cooler with a muslin draped over the top and a gap at the bottom. I checked several times. I think mothers know how to protect their own babies and are on it. 🙄

I’m struggling g to see the difference between a Muslin cloth being draped over a buggy and the approved sun shades which some of which are not nets .

The other costs ££££ and has a catchy name. Same as a lot of baby equipment that is suddenly deemed vital when parents have coped for years without.

I use the snooze shade that the first poster posted, together with a pram fan

Thank you for that link!!!! I’ve not seen these before.

I did it when my first daughter was born because I was out and couldn’t get the parasol to stay in a place which shielded her from the sun and a Muslin was all I could think of to protect her from the glare of the sun. genuinely didn’t know it was dangerous till the people I met up with that day told me

Yeah they should be walking, lazy bastards.

No because as it turns out, it was a Swedish newspaper article and not even actual research. The lady who invented the Snoozeshade wrote about it.

No because the findings on this are actually statistically significant and many babies have sadly died from unsafe sleep practice. Show me the stats where thousands of babies have died over decades and continents from a draped muslin on the pram and I might review my thinking around this.

My point is, it hasn't actually been proven to be dangerous, the statistics don't bear out when it comes to injuries/fatalities so it's actually a common misconception rather than sound advice to parents.

My comment about mothers was about people judging mothers for this, not it being only mothers who do the draping.

Back in the dark ages i.e 60s-70s when we had the big prams,we always had lovely canopies to fit over the pram.