Does she need vests?

[Sastra]

I am due end of October, so weather is likely to be cold. I thought the baby would need long sleeved suits with vests underneath for the first three mints or so, but the assistant in Mamas & Pappas said I didn't need vests, just some long sleeved sleepsuits??

I'd get vests definitely.

You will need vests but probably only short sleeved ones, vest, babygro/outfit, cardy

I like a vest myself. Mine always wore them all year round. You want them to be as cosy and comfortable as possible, especially at 3am.

yes vests

definitely
if only because they hold the nappy in place!

Mine wore vests all year around. When it was warm then just vests.

The popper-bottomed short-sleeved vests are def necessary in Oct, a longer sleeve for when its particularly cold later on. They also help to keep the nappy 'in place'. I always put my DD in a vest with babygro/t-shirt/outfit over the top, even now when she's 2yo. I only left it off it was exceptionally hot, or only put that on, as AThing said.

Yep deff vests mine are all July/aug babys and still wore vests unless of course it was really hot then they would wear a vest only and no sleepsuit so in Oct u deff need vests!

Afaik (due in December) babies need one more layer than adults. So if you're indoors wearing trousers and t shirt, baby needs vest, trousers and t shirt. If you get chilly and put on a jumper, baby needs one too - but still with the extra layer on top of what you need.

I'll be buying long sleeved, short sleeved and sleep suits just in case! At £7 for 7 or whatever they are in the supermarket, I'd rather have them and not need them iyswim :)

Shop assistant is clueless! Babies need one more layer than you, so if you would be waundering around topless in October....

My newborn DD (DC2) is dressed today in a long sleeved sleep suit, short sleeved vest and little cardie over the top as she felt chilly. Long sleeved vests can be a bit of a bugger to sort the sleeves out on when when are teeny hence the short sleeves and then cardie.

Argh!!!! So hang on: when I say vest I mean something that looks like a swimming costume - with a sleepsuit over the top. Do I need those ones that look like t-shirts (short sleved) and the ones that loo k like long sleeved t-shirts UNDER the sleep suit if it's cold?

Oh bloody hell, I am feeling very overwhelmed and incompetent

Yes, vests are the little 'swimming costume ones' but come in 3 varieties; sleeveless, short-sleeved & long-sleeved.

Sleepsuit = babygro, onesie, jumpsuit type thing.

You don't need anything else under the babygro - vest + babygro + cardigan (if nec) will be sufficient. Get a packet of short-sleeve white vests in first size from Asda/Tesco. Nothing else more complicated needed!! :-)

Asda popper vests - £2.50 for 3. Can't go wrong with them.

you need some of this style vest here

and then some of these

and a couple of little cardis

that's it really

Thank you so much. God, if I'm finding this a struggle, I dread to think what's coming...!

I only know this because I've done it twice before.

The only reason I had any vests when DD1 was born is because someone gad given them to me :o

You'll be fine, honestly. :)