Baby Bedding..

I'm unsure of what type of bedding to get. We plan on having a merino sleeping bag thing. Obviously I need sheets. But what else....duvet?Blankets...woolen ones?

So would my winter baby need their sleeping bag, sheets and a blanket?? More?

Man it must get cold in Wanganui lol

Issy has a light merino blankie at the moment and nothing else (and she usually kicks that off and wiggles so she is int he path of the fan)

In winter she sleeps in a gogo bag (normal weight) and nothing else ... on a really cold night we put her merino blankie over the top.

Her merino blankie was what we orignally wrapped her in as a newborn .. but its big enough to go across a cot.

Number two will be a winter baby .. so as a nb .. he will be swaddled in a merino wrap and have a merino bassinette blankie.

Then when he is older he will go into a gogo bag and he will have a merino cot blankie just in case.

(oh and they have four gogo bags each - two standard and two summers .. as we found summer weight good for daytime sleeps in cooler months - its too hot in our house to use them in summer)

Ella was a winter baby and when she was newborn she worn a singlet, merino gown, swapped in a cotton wrap and then covered with a woollen cot blanket (which was folded several times). We also had the heater going in a room so the temp was around 20C- if she had any more bedding than that she started to overheat.

We didn't move her into a sleeping bag until she was around 4-5 months as it was only then she stared to move around in her sleep and then a sleeping bag, until then blankets were fine.

Thanks for the advice everyone. So it sounds like duvets are a no go.

Yeah Daniel has only got a duvet since he moved into his big bed.

Instead of buying cot sized wool blankets just buy a single size and you can fold it in half and then use it on the single bed when bubs moves into it down the track - its what we did and it worked great and when it was warmer we just pulled one layer back.