A few practical benefits of using baby sleeping bags from baby to toddler

I have mentioned in previous posts about many of the benefits of baby sleeping bags. As you may have learnt by now – baby sleeping bags really are a fantastic purchase for your baby, and there are so many benefits of using baby sleeping bags that it can be difficult to name them all!

Due to this, I thought I would write a couple of blog posts giving a bit more information about the benefits of baby sleeping bags over traditional bedding. I will keep them short and sweet  so you don’t get overwhelmed with information, but I hope they will prove informative to you!

To start with: let’s look at some of the practical reasons why baby sleeping bags are superior to traditional bedding as a sleeping method for use from baby to toddler.

 Firstly, your baby can’t kick off a baby sleeping bag in her sleep, as is so easily (and frequently) done with traditional bedding night after night after night.....you get the picture (and new parents will be all too familiar with the picture!) A baby sleeping bag therefore prevents the baby becoming cold in the night, and also stops baby waking up in the night having discarded its blankets.

 Secondly, by using a baby sleeping bag from birth, your child will learn to associate the baby sleeping bag with bedtime, and thus, time to settle down and sleep. Routines such as these are absolutely essential, and should be implemented as soon as possible to minimise fragmented sleep patterns, so the sooner you start using baby sleeping bags the better! This is particularly important as your little ones get older, as they may start to stay up later even when they are wearing their nightclothes.  The baby sleeping bag therefore acts as a firm signal for bed when pyjamas alone may not for older babies.

Baby sleeping bags are great for especially active kids as they stop babies from trying to climb out of their cot at night –because of this, baby sleeping bags are also particularly beneficial as your baby gets older, as they often fancy a night time wander! Similarly, active babies can get their legs caught in cot bars or similar – with baby sleeping bags this is not an issue as the legs cannot become caught.

Ok, that’s it for the moment – I hope you have found this information helpful, bye for now!

Fantastic Christmas gift ideas – Baby Sleeping Bags

I always struggle to know what to buy for babies at Christmas. I know from friends that parents don’t always appreciate the well meaning hordes of plastic toys that invade the house each December – often cheap and tacky, they just add clutter to homes! Therefore, this year I have conducted a mini survey among my friends with babies asking them what they would want for Christmas. The answer from most of them was sleep please!

Grobag Offer a great range of Baby Sleeping Bags

Well, while sadly my expertise does not stretch to conjuring and bottling essence of sleep, I do have another idea which may well help aid more peaceful nights: The baby sleeping bag.

As anybody who knows me is well aware, I am an extremely keen advocate of baby sleeping bags – parents across Europe have been using them for years. Baby sleeping bags are widely being hailed as one of the safest sleeping methods for babies by parents and professionals alike and there is increasing amounts of scientific research being done to support this claim. 

The UK health department in particular has advised lying your baby to sleep on its back and making sure your baby does not become too hot during the night to help reduce the risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). The baby sleeping bag deals with both these requirements simply – by using a baby sleeping bag, and laying your baby to sleep on its back, the sleeping bag prevents the baby from rolling over in her sleep. Similarly, baby sleeping bags help maintain a constant temperature throughout the night as they keep air circulating throughout the sleeping bag.

Both these factors mean the baby is less likely to wake up as a result of being too hot, or alternatively being too cold having kicked its blankets off, which means less night time wake-up calls for tired parents and more sleep for all involved – voila the gift of sleep!

Available in a wide range of sizes, tog specifications (so you can choose the warmest baby sleeping bag for the season temperature) and a fantastically cute variety of designs and patterns, baby sleeping bags are both practical and fun, making them the perfect gift for Christmas.