Amount of bedding/blankets in bassinet

I guess it depends how cold it is really, as the weather still isn't very settled around early December. I'm going to have a blanket on top of matteress then sheet, no top sheet as bubs will be wrapped, then just blankets on top depending how warm/cold it is

I had my baby in January and it was pretty warm, but she was 6 weeks prem so we needed to be extra careful about not letting her get cold. But here's a bit of an idea;
For day sleeps I'd just swaddle her in a muslin wrap (she was tiny so this was about 3 layers) with a folded cotton cellular blanket (so it was double layer). She would have been wearing a cotton onsie and some socks and maybe a light hat if it was cooler.
Depending on the temperature at night she'd be swaddled in the same muslin thing with 2-4 layers of merino blanket (I had some merino swaddles that I used as blankets for ages) and a hat. This seems like a lot but she was only 2.5kg when we brought her home so maybe you'd need less with a full term baby.

Don't fret about it too much, you work it out pretty quickly.

Every child is different, for DS (10wks old) he is just swaddled for his day sleeps but if it is cold i put 1 woollen blanket on him, at night its the same but he has 2 woollen blankets on him. I have a really long woollen which goes under his mattress and comes out each side so i can wrap him pretty snuggly.

DS was born in mid march and it was still fairly warm, Pretty much did the same and NandC. SOme days (hot ones) just a short sleeve body suit, socks and cotton knit wrap/swaddle. I didn't know (til we saw a karitane nurse and she worked it out) that ds ran hot so didn't like it all.

This time round I'm planning on all in one suit thingy (with a short sleeve body suit underneath) and then some sort of swaddle/wrap during the day, maybe a sheet so I feel like bubs is in bed and then the cotton cell blanket at night. If you have a bassinet the cotton cell blanket should be plenty big enough to fold in half if it's a little colder.

You can get some really cheapish room thermometers for peace of mind (it really helped my SIL and me to have a thermometer just so we could satisfy our overthinking paranoid type minds that it wasn't too cold )

Thanks ladies your advice has been really helpful.

I had sort of planned to swaddle then have a top sheet and a cellular blanket if needed for night and add more layers if he was cold so I'm glad I'm on the right track. Its good to know they can just be swaddled for day sleeps otherwise I might have layered him up too much hehe

Sounds like I have the right gear so will just have to trial and error and I like the idea of a thermometer I will definitely be the kind of Mum who needs that hehe

Thanks for taking the time to answer!

Yep you're definitely on the right track Lisa, and definitely keep the sleepstore.co.nz saved as an internet favourite, cos their website is BRILLIANT as a resource in the first few weeks! You are so much more onto it than I was with Lucy btw.. the first night we got her home from hosp (early sep 09) she screamed and wouldn't settle for hours. I was sure she was hungry and I didn't have enough milk to BF her, so sent DH out for a 2hr car trip to buy formula at 3am in the morning haha sucker! Anyway, by the time he arrived home I'd finally realised she was just cold, so had settled her using a warmed wheat-bag, extra blankets and finally thought to turn on our thermostat heater. Guess I was just so sleep deprived or something, that such an obvious solution just didn't occur to me!

Recently i got Cellular Blanket for my Lo from The Wool Company. I placed an order online.
It is super soft cotton with soft satin binding that my baby loves.

http://www.thewoolcompany.co.uk/satin-trimmed-baby-blanket.html