Swaddle / sleeping bag

The new recommendations for swaddles is advising you to avoid. They have now realised preventing the startle reflex causes developmental issues. They say if you feel you must swaddle then at least have the arms out.

I’m so glad I found this out the day before we went baby shopping as I was definitely planning on doing that originally! .x.x.x.

Yes it only changed recently. It was at a class I went to at the hospital with a midwife. The biggest shock for me was the new regs on car travel. Up to 3 months they can’t be in a car seat for more than 30 minutes. Then 3 months plus for no more than 2 hours. Also front facing car seats are not recommended for anyone under 7 years!!!!!!

We are taking 2 blankets with us for sleep, as we weren't able to swaddle our first, due to medical reasons, so you can safely just use a blanket, but they only teach you how if you need to.

We used sleeping bags from birth at home, no need for them in the hospital. I've never swaddled

I love the tommee tippee sleeping bags as you can leave the arms out. Hospital I finds to hot to swaddle them

I never swaddled my first two and not planning on it this time either. We ended up using cellular blankets for the first few weeks with both as the sleeping bags felt too big and baggy (even though they were above the minmum weight), only switched to sleeping bags as they got older x