Grobag?? General newborn baby sleeping help

[Misscocopops]

Hiya, first time mum to be here :)
I'm looking for advice on gro bags or other baby sleeping things.

My little one is due 21st September.

So I know she will be in her Moses basket for a fair few months when she arrives but what do I put her in to sleep? I've seen gro bags? Do I just use those over her baby gro?

Do these replace bedding for cots later on?

If I do get a baby sleeping bag for my newborn September baby what tog shall I get?

Any advice will be greatly appreciated :)

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Hi there,

This thread is quite old and some of the products mentioned here aren't available any more. For advice and recommendations on baby sleeping bags, take a look at our round up of the best baby sleeping bags available in the UK.

Hope that helps,

MNHQ

"The other amazing sleep gadget is the Cocoonababy. Use it on my second, and she sleeps 6-8 hours a night and has done from 6 weeks. My first never slept at all - it was hellish. Could just be coincidence, but if you read the reviews on here, and Amazon, and johnlewis.co.uk and jojomanabebe.co.uk.... well, those are an awful lot of coincidences. Our local JL told me they only sell online now because the stores can't keep pace with demand, as nor can the manufacturers. There was a wait of a month with JoJoMaman when DD was due. The things do seem to work for the majority of babies."

With the Cocoonababy, so you still swaddle them?

I want to try swaddling, but also love the look of the Cocoonababy. I have a SnuzPod and a 3in1 Rocker for the living room/day time sleeping. Will a Cocoonababy fit in those?

Thanks Droflove- keep it simple and easy on yourself I suppose x

You don't need to swaddle in a Cocoonababy, because their arms are kept at an angle that means movement doesn't startle them. The startle reflex is what woke my son unless we swaddled - they still move, but can't do that whole-body-throw thing. The other incredible thing about the Cocoonababy is that the bum wedge farts out colic. My husband called it "the fart chair" for that horrible patch when they squirm and scream - we'd put her in it screaming in pain, she'd writhe for five minutes, then there'd be this cocophany of farts... and she'd be smily again. Bloody miracle. She's almost out of it now, and past the colic stage so it only works for sleep - but there is no "only" relating to sleep when you have a young baby. Honestly, I would pay several times the purchase price for the thing if I ever had another. And I'm not someone who believes in buying most of the stuff sold to parents, because I think most of it is gubbins.

Those hammocks work well, too, but the issue there is that transferring the baby to a normal cot can be hellish. The Cocoonababy goes in the cot, so DD is used to sleeping in it, used to the mobile etc., and we've started putting her down in the cot without the Cocoonababy for daytime naps to get her used to it - wakes herself with startling sometimes, but not unsettled.

They should pay me commission! Honestly, I've been here for years and rarely recommend anything. But I so wish we'd been able to use the combo on my son, too. I think my PND with him was partly down to the sleep deprivation.

Forgot to say - you don't need to put the Cocoonababy on anything except the floor. It's in the cot at night to get her used to the cot, but it stands alone, and they can't move out. I pop it wherever. It's sort of like a firm memory foam, if that makes any sense. It holds shape and they can see around from inside it. We never used the tummy band at all, either - it was added to reassure parents, apparently (though don't quote me on that in case I'm wrong!) so I just put her in it without. They can't roll over at this stage anyway, as the angle is against them doing so, just as in a hammock. By the time they have the strength, they're out of it.

Googled for the website, so you can see what I mean: www.cocoonababy.com.au/

(The NCT have just started selling them too, I discovered from that search. This does not surprise me. They really are fab.)

Oh, but I absolutely wouldn't buy their own branded sleepbags, as they're hideously and needlessly expensive. Normal summer weight ones work just fine in them (or none at all in hot weather, obviously. She's just in a sleepsuit at the moment).

I had a January baby and wasn't into buying stuff I may not use. For the first 6 weeks we used blankets and a moses basket. After that we got a grobag and it was good as it made the transition from moses basket to boob during the night easier and he didn't have to get out of the blanket/ cold. But when he was tiny and needing lots of new nappies it was less easy to know if the nappy needed changing, and harder to see if he was in a good position for feeding.
At 12 weeks he went into a cot with grobag and it is good as it's simpler and he's a real wriggler so stops him poking his feet out the bars or losing his blankets.
I found good quality ones in TKMaxx and in the GAP sale.