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Win a Liberty Born cot or pram blanket
Keep baby warm with a Liberty Born cot or pram blanket from luxury new British lifestyle brand Scarlet & Argent. Woven with luxuriously light and ever so soft merino wool, these truly lovable baby blankets are trimmed with Liberty fabric, adding an extra special touch for that extra special little person in your life. Bound…
Cot Death or SIDS
Sadly, eight babies die suddenly and unexpectedly every week in the UK from cot death or SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome). It’s a dreadful thought and one that it is common for new parents and parents-to-be to become a little paranoid or anxious about. What usually helps is to know some of the facts around the topic and most…
Posted in Cot Death, Losing a baby
Tagged Cot, counsellor, Family, Foundation for Study of Infant Deaths, SIDS, Sleep, Sudden infant death syndrome
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Co-sleeping with your baby
Mum Sharon Burchill will tonight face a battle to get her one-year-old daughter to sleep in her cot. Every night since baby Cerys was born, she has refused to sleep alone. Most nights Cerys ends up in the parental bed with Sharon while dad Jason sleeps in another room at their Bristol home. It is not what they planned, but…
Posted in Baby Care
Tagged Bed, Co-sleeping, Cot, Sleep, Sleep disorders, Sleeping Routines Establishing, Sudden infant death syndrome
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Moving your baby from cot to bed
You may have thought the move from Moses basket to cot was a big step. But what about the transition from cot to bed? Find out how to manage this milestone in your baby’s development and how to ease the transition. When should I do it? Unlike some areas in child development, there is no ‘set’…
Posted in Baby, Baby Care, Baby Development, Toddler development stages
Tagged Baby, Bed, bedrail, Child development, Cot, moving, Nightlight, Sibling, Toddler
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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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Babies ready to sleep?
If you can pick up on the clues that tell you your baby is ready to sleep it will be easier to help him settle in his cot or crib. Throughout the day and night there will be ‘sleep windows’ – drowsy periods when your baby is more ready to fall asleep. If you can recognise these times…
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,…
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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…
Buying secondhand
Nursery equipment and baby items bought second hand or passed on as hand-me-downs, can save you money, but the goods need to be treated with some caution. Secondhand things may have been subjected to general wear and tear, or even accidents, but show no external damage. Make sure you know the history of the product They don’t…
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Tagged child car seat, Child safety, Cot, Family, Waste
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