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Baby Sleeping Bags

Sound and long sleep is very important for the health of newborn babies. Parents of newborn must take all measures to ensure all night long sleep for their baby. More and more parents are adopting baby sleeping bags. Sleeping bags are recommended predominantly for safety reasons. Worldwide Health Organisations, pediatricians, maternity hospitals and SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) associations have been recommending the use of sleeping bags because of the danger of suffocation in soft, conventional bedding.

The special design of baby sleeping bags ensures that your baby cannot:

• become entangled, or slip down under, loose coverings and suffocate
• overheat baby's temperature is easy to control in the correct sleeping bag
• suffer leg injuries by getting caught between the cot railings.

Apart from safety, there are other advantages of baby sleeping bags. Some of them are described here:

1. Unlike blankets, which are frequently kicked off during sleep, the baby sleeping bag can neither be kicked off nor slip off yet allows plenty of room for kicking and wriggling. Sleeping bags help baby stay warm and cosy and sleep longer without interruption, so no constant monitoring is needed which a definite advantage for not only baby but for the parents too.
2. Nappy changing is easy with a sleeping bag, all you have to do is to simply unzip it, gently deal with the change, and zip it up again, with hardly any change in temperature for your baby.
3. Sleeping soundly in a cosy sleeping bag often extends the interval between feeds.
4. Night-time feeding is helped along by being able to lift your baby out of the cot in the sleeping bag which keeps her cosy throughout feeding and changing, and returning her to the cot with little change in temperature.