Talk to me about swaddles/sleeping bags.

I bought all mine from Vinted! My son hated hands down swaddles so the love to dream was a life saver. Ive bought the standard tog so I can adjust the rooms temperature accordingly x

Same as above buy on Vinted/ebay/marketplace. They aren’t in them long enough, but also till you try them out you won’t know what suits baby best as some like hands up some like hands down.

I used Muslim cloths to swaddle myself to begin with and then moved onto a love to dream at newborn stage. After that moved onto grobags/sleeping bags.

I used a sleeping bag for my son that was born Sept 2023 and doing the same when baby is born. Had a 2.5tog as they can be used pretty much all year round. My son is 15months and still sleeps in a sleeping bag. We did drop to a 1tog sleep bag on holiday and throughout the summer

I’m due 24th Feb too with my second! I love swaddle bags and sleeping bags. I do rate love to dream for newborn to start but then found ergopouch better suited us because the arms have poppers so can do arms out when they start to roll and my girl was an early roller. You can reuse the bags as long as clean and so only need a couple. Sleeping bags are generally bigger 0-3/0-6 and so do think you should start with a newborn swaddle though depends on babies size and important to follow the weight advice. 2.5 tog for this time of year, though having a 1 tog can be useful but given expense would hold off as can always order as needed and once you know babies size. Would start with 2.5 tog in newborn. Ergopouch do sleeping bags too and my girl has used these from 4/5 months to 18 months so while expensive lasted a long time and only had a couple. Also agree marketplace/Vinted and sales!

I got my Tommee Tippee ones off Vinted - the Love to Dream ones are on there too but they are still quite pricey for second hand.

Tog-wise it depends on how well insulated your house is - even in this freezing weather my house stays quite warm as its a newer build so get a temp checker thing and see how the temp is in their room they’ll be sleeping in, there is then a really good chart you can google which says how to dress your baby for bed depending on temp - this includes the ideal tog of bags/swaddles too xx