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Choosing a Safe Bed for your Newborn Baby

At The Sleep Store, you’ll find our focus is not on an insta-worthy nursery or the cute cot sets with matching pillows and bumpers. Our focus is on safe sleep options and helping parents to choose a safe sleep option for their baby. This article will help you choose a safe sleep space for your baby.

How Much Bedding Does my Baby Need?

Knowing how much bedding and clothing your baby needs can sometimes be a bit tricky. We suggest cotton or wool blankets and will show you how to make the cot safely. Find out how to tell if your baby is too hot or cold and if you should use a heater. The article also includes information about using sleeping bags too.

For a Safe & Comfortable Sleep

Keeping your little one safe in their cot or portacot doesn't have to be hard. Our guide gives a checklist of the things you can do to make your baby's sleep environment safer.

Safety Guides

Making Your Baby's Cot

Suffocation from babies having their face covered by bedding is one of the main SIDS risk factors. So if you are using blankets and sheets rather than a baby sleeping bag, it's very important to make the cot up as safely as possible. As an alternative, using a fitted swaddle or sleeping bag means there is no need for any additional bedding.

Avoid Overheating with your Baby

It is important to be well informed about overheating, so you can resist the poor advice and unsafe examples you'll see on social media. For example, bonnets look cute on Instagram babies but hats on sleeping babies are a real risk factor for overheating.

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Bassinet, Cot & Bed Mattress Sizes

Getting the right linen to fit your bassinet, bed or cot is not so easy! We have a foolproof guide to NZ, American, and Australian cot and bed sizing to ensure you get it right.

Travel Cots and Beds

Which is the best travel cot? With the help of our guides and videos you'll be able to see which one is right for you and your little one for your next holiday, weekend away or as a temporary cot at a friend or relatives home.

What do I need for my Newborn?

If you are expecting your first baby, the list of things to buy can seem overwhelming....and at a time you are about to lose one income! The large baby chain stores will give you a long list of their so-called 'essentials'. Of course they will tell you everything is essential, it's in their best interest to help you spend large sums of money on baby products!!!

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