Bedding

[Alamaya]

Hi All,

I am very sorry if this is in the wrong place but i was a little overwhelmed with all the boards :).

Im 30 weeks pregnant with my first and finally filling my nursery with my purchases and then it dawned on me.

I have fitted sheets, flat sheets, cellular sheets and fleece sheets (for moses basket and cotbed) but have no idea when to use what and how many to use.

Is there a rule i am unaware of?
How embarassing that something like bedding is so confusing for me.

Thanks in advance

Do you have a way of taking room temperature measure? Gro-egg do little electric lights that you plug in the wall - so you can see if the room is the right temp for babies, or getting too warm or too cold. I would recommend you get something like this. If the room is correct temp then a cotton all in one - babygro, cover sheet and cotton blanket will be perfect, but if the room is cooler, then you'd probably want a fleece blanket on top. I used sleepbags with my two babies, of varying thickness related to weather - so winter weight, spring and summer. The security I had with that was they didn't kick off blankets or shuffle down under them - but it meant they didn't learn how to sleep in a bed with sheets and blankets.

Do you have a midwife yet? They are often very good at advising on this kind of thing and if they come to your house (for post-baby check up) its exactly the kind of question they love answering and helping with.

Perfectly normal to worry about this.

I also had no idea about this kinda stuff! The first night we brought DS back to our flat, I was terrified he was going to overheat and was checking him all the time. Thank God my mum was there to help calm my nerves!

I would say, sleeping bag is the way to go. They're easy and you can feel secure that baby isn't going to shuffle down under a blanket as anonymosity said.

Best of luck with everything!

are you talking to sleep on or sleep under?

if on, i'd say fitted rather than flat, much easier to make, but just a personal question. not sure what cellular sheets versus fleece sheets. are you talking blankets?

tbh, when both ds's were newborn, we swaddled with cot sheets and then 'proper' swaddle blankets (over bodysuit and sleepsuit during winter). swaddling does make them much warmer. it was the only way they would sleep initially. then we moved to a grobag at 3 or 4 months and followed instructions on there.

definitely ask your midwife to have a look and advise. can't remember official guidelines for nursery temp - def worth looking this up and getting a thermometer.

good luck!

personal question - duh, personal preference

Grobags are great but you might find the baby wakes itself up with its arm-flapping . In which case swaddling helps - but it's a case of trial and error. We didn't discover swaddling until we had DC2, and grobags weren't very common before then either.
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