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Baby sleeping products
Travel cots These are extremely useful if you are unsure of your baby’s sleeping arrangements at your destination or when travelling. It also means that your baby will have a familiar place to sleep and rest. There are two types of travel cot: those which fold down into a cube shape and fit into a sturdy travel bag (some of…
Posted in Buying for your baby, Sleep
Tagged baby products, Babycare, Beds, Child safety, Cot, sleeping, Sleeping bag, Travel adaptor, travel bag, travel cot
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Bed rest is not a mini holiday!
As many as one in five pregnancies is subject to some form of bed rest and while there are many different reasons for a pregnant woman to be confined to bed, almost all will admit that it’s a difficult time. Erica Jackson shares her experience of bed rest, what drove her mad and how she got…
Posted in Pregnancy, Pregnancy Health
Tagged Baby, bedrest, Beds, bored, Christmas, Jacob, Laptop, Mattresses, Phillip Schofield, Pregnancy, rest, Shopping, Sleep
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Establishing bedtimes
Between three and seven months most babies begin to be able to understand the idea of a routine where one thing follows another. You can make use of this growing awareness to introduce a bedtime routine to help him learn to go to sleep readily: Your routine may include a bath, a cuddle, a song, a story,…
Posted in Baby Care
Tagged Beds, Bedtime, Child safety, Childhood, Cot, Parenting, Sleep
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Bedding for babies
Babies sleep better when they are warm. But babies of under four months old are less able to adapt to swings in temperature than the rest of us and need help to keep a steady temperature. So don’t use any bedclothes that may make your baby overheat: Do not use duvets or pillows for babies under one…
Hang loose!
A hammock needn’t be merely a seat on which you recline on a tropical beach. For babies, hammocks are a realistic and practical alternative to cots and moses baskets. The gentle rocking motion of a hammock is hard to beat when it comes to sending your baby to sleep, and its shape means that your…
Posted in Baby, Buying for your baby
Tagged Babycare, Bassinet, Beds, Brazil, Breastfeeding, Childhood, Family, Hammock, India, Ship construction, The Koala
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Pop baby into a pop-up cot!
Pop baby into a pop-up cot! Cot facilities in resorts and abroad can leave a lot to be desired. But, short of carrying heavy and cumbersome cot around with you, what’s the answer? Well, look no further than the stylish Samsonite Pop Up Travel Cot. The cot measures just 27cm and weighs 800g when it’s…
Posted in Buying for your baby, Travel
Tagged Babycare, Beds, Child safety, Cot, Family
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Slumberland baby mattress
Everyone needs a good night’s sleep, and no one more so than your growing baby. So, Slumberland have designed a new mattress especially for babies and children. The mattresses have a unique wipe clean Vaperm cover on one side, which is waterproof and allows vapour to be drawn away from the baby’s body, helping to…
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Tagged asthma, Bed, Bedding, Beds, Cot, eczema, Family, House dust mite, Mattress, Mattresses
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New Cot Death Guidance
New advice has been issued to reduce the risk of cot death. The new guidance includes keeping your baby’s cot in your bedroom for the first six months. The recommendations were published in a revised Reduce the Risk leaflet, published by the Department of Health but helped by the Foundation for the Study of Infant…
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Tagged Babycare, Beds, Childhood, Cot, Department of Health, Family, Foundation for Study of Infant Deaths, Sleep, Smoke, Sudden infant death syndrome
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Bed sharing fears for smokers
3 December 1999 A PROMINENT doctor has called for a recommendation that parents who smoke should not share a bed with their babies. The call comes after further research into sudden infant death syndrome, or cot death, as it is more commonly known. Dr. Peter Blair, from the Royal Hospital for Children in Bristol, investigated…
Sleep on the back, play on the front
Parents have become so worried about the risks of babies being allowed to sleep on their fronts that some won’t even allow children to play on their stomachs, a cot death charity has said. But babies need time on their front to encourage development and work on vital motor skills. Now the Foundation for the Study of Infant…
Posted in Cot Death, News
Tagged baby toys, Babycare, Beds, Childhood, Cot, Family, Foundation for Study of Infant Deaths, FSID, Joyce Epstein, Sleep, Sudden infant death syndrome
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