Tis a boring baby bedding one im afraid...

[Pickles77]

Im due late sept and im wondering what to get for my newborn to sleep in.
Ive lots of blankets, shes going to be in a moses for a while but i have been given some gro bags for when shes a bit older, im just wondering shoud i get some for when shes smaller? Im really worried abut her being cold and non snuggly. Also do i need one of these swaddling wraps?

I used sleeping bags from as soon as they met the minimum weight requirements for DD - she just wouldn't sleep at all with sheets/blankets (and she was always a crap sleeper anyway) DS wasn't fussed, he would sleep still badly about the same in sheets or a sleeping bag.

I hardly used blankets though so you may not need lots. I loved the sleeping bags because they stay on - babies always wriggle away from the sheets then wake because they are a bit cold. Plus you can cuddle/feed them to sleep then plop them in the cot already in the bag.

I swaddled mine for first month using a sheet, then into a growbag - which are great & much the easiest type of bedding. Now I have a selection of grobags of different togs & dd wears with either a babygrow or short/long sleeve vests.

Another sleeping bag fan. If you live somewhere cold you can simply put on an extra or warmer babygro. Nothing worse than finding a baby completely above the blankets on a bitter winters night.The only downside I have found to them is the lack of snuggability means that their hands are exposed so if the bedroom gets quite cold overnight you can often find an older child sleeping face down with their hands tucked underneath them. I always wonder if it's a warmth thing.

I had LO in sheets and blankets until he was big enough for the sleeping bag I got for him, but wish I'd got him in one sooner. He is much snugger and easier to move onto his cot after I've fed him on our bed. Often doesn't stir, whereas with blankets he would always wake up as I faffed about trying to get them right.

Swaddle at the beginning and then gro-bags from about six weeks. Swaddles are a bit of a faff (sp?) and make sure you get a nice big one. I bought some fancy expensive one which he outgrew in about three weeks. Gro-bags are great though and sleep improved vastly once he was in his gro-bag and cot but that may have just been a general settling into the world on his part at six weeks rather than any miraculous properties of the gro-bag. I only used blankets during the day - in his buggy and when he was downstairs. I was a bit paranoid about suffocation.

well, I'll go against the general opinion here - I never really used gro-bags for either of mine, had nice fleecy blankets, and honeycomb blankets and flat sheets which I layered as needed. I also used fleecy sleep suits (the ones with feet but they have legs IYSWIM) so i reasoned that they stayed pretty snug! Also, they never seemed to get blankets stuck over them which I know folk worry about.

I did try a gro-bag for ds1, but didn't really get on with it, and as it had no arms (think straps like dungarees) I worried (irrationally!) that his poor arms would be cold...!

do make sure tho that you put baby 'feet to foot' in the cot - this is important.

good luck!

For those of you using gro-bags, how many do you recommend and what thickness? My 1st is due in Jan so do i need thicker ones?