Advice on swaddling

After having my baby boy for a week I quickly realised he doesn’t like to sleep with loads of empty space around him. At night time when I would put him in his next to me he wouldn’t settle. I’ve started to use a purflo pillow in his next to me and it’s really helped him sleep. I also want to use swaddles to give reassurance he’s warm or cool enough but I don’t know if he can sleep in the purflo pillow in a swaddle. Anyone know if I can?

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The purflo pillows aren’t actually recommended for sleep as they massively increase the risk of SIDS through suffocation and overheating

I use a Purflo nest but only for supervised daytime naps, nothing should be added to a next to me. I really recommend swaddling though. So I'd take the Purflo out and swaddle instead. We used tommee tippee swaddle bags and find they work really well.

If he finds the next to me too big some people say their babies prefer a moses basket because they are smaller spaces

My little girl wouldn’t settle in the Next to Me when she was newborn, so we had to stick to the Moses basket for the first month.
We also swaddled her in the Tommee Tippee zip up swaddles (they’re really lightweight). She slept so much better!

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