What do babies wear under their sleepsuits??

[MrsMc82]

Got a load of basic long sleeved sleep suits with feet for our baby boy who's due in jan which i'm guessing he'll spend the majority of his time in during the first couple of months but am having a panic as i'm now not sure if he'll need vests (sleeveless ones with poppers between the legs) underneath these?
also got some long sleeved t shirts to wear with little trousers will he need a vest under these too???
Am feeling rather clueless! Thanks for your help ladies xx

[StealthPolarBear]

asda vests are good as they have really wide necks (because that will seem important )
Also you will hate anything with poppers down the back!

[funtimewincies]

Second that about poppers at the back!

[Joeymac]

My babies have slept in their sleeping bags with a poppered vest and poppered sleepsuit (down the front of course) on under but we live in a cold old flat and despite the cetral heating it's always freezing.

I've been totally paranoid about putting blankets over them cos of the suffocation thing if they're a wriggler so I've got lots of granny knit jumpers and cardigans which they sleep in on top of their suits.

Not stylish I know but warm and comfy for them - they also fit well when they're newborn - all shop made stuff seems so huge and baggy when they're tiny.

[1mum1]

Can I ask what bedding my newborn will need -due in december? I've bought a gro bag (2.5 tog as it's dec) - can she go straight into this or should she start off in a swaddling blanket (she'll be in a moses basket)? Am a bit confused about this. Also what's a cellular blanket for - I've bought one but don't even know when to use it!

[nappyaddict]

Get wrap over bodysuits and front fastening sleepsuits for easy changing.

[nappyaddict]

Comma what are they bodysuits you speak of which popper up at the belly rather than the crotch. i've never seen any like those but they sound fabulous!!

[ourraquel]

1Mum1 - some babies love being swaddled, our dd was swaddled really tightly until she was about 3 months because she had a strong moro reflex and her flailing arms and legs used to wake her up all the time otherwise. Other babies don't like it at all, and want to be unrestricted, so grobags are perfect for them from the start. IME, you won't find out which kind yours is until he/she is born! So, it's good you've got the grobag, but you can also try swaddling if you need to, and you can just use a bogstandard muslin cloth for that. Then, if it seems to work well, you can invest in a proper swaddling blanket. But by 3 months or so you'll need a grobag in any case.

So in other words, you are as well-prepared as you're going to be able to be!

No idea what cellular blankets are for, tbh, we bought several as well and my dd now uses them to make beds for her toys. I think in emergencies I may also have mopped up dribbly poo with them.

[1mum1]

ourraquel - Thanks so much for that info. So it will be a see what the baby likes situation. And C/B are for dribbly poo thanks x

[NellyNoKnicks]

I don't know if anyone else had this problem, but I found that sleep suits were much easier if they opened all the way down. Some of the side opening sleepsuits are impossible to get a wriggling baby into IMO.

[Stannie]

Brilliant thread! I'm also am clueless 1st timer and was worrying about what to dress baby in!

Thanks

[alana39]

Cellular blankets are great for prams, chucking over a baby who falls asleep in a cold car, even using on a newborn (if they're small, some grobags have minimum weight recommendations). So just blankets!

[LadyMetroland]

Another first timer here - due any day!

So, here's my clueless bedding question: I've bought the NCT swaddling blanket, which turns out to be made of thin cotton t-shirt material. Do you think I'd need to add a cellular blanket on top of the swaddling? If I didn't, he'd only be wearing his cotton vest, cotton sleepsuit and the thin swaddling blanket - all made of fairly thin t-shirt material. Can't help but think that if I were put to bed only wearing 3 t-shirts I might get a bit cold!

[nappyaddict]

I preferred cellular blankets to grobags because they are less likely to over heat in them and DS was another very hot baby.

NellyNoKnicks What do you mean by side opening baby gros? Do you mean this sort of thing?

[NellyNoKnicks]

Argh can't view the site (as am on work computer). They'd have buttons on the side of the neck or a couple on the front as there'd be some design on the front.

Too much bother when for some reason they've wee'd up their back at 3am and you only changed them an hour before....

But obviously that's just my opinion

[NellyNoKnicks]

Ok finally managed to view it, no those ones are fine as they are open all the way down

These are similar to the ones I was on about neck opening sleep suits what a faff