Blanket for the newborn: what requirements should meet?

To ensure a comfortable life of a newborn, you need to take care of many things. One of them - a sound sleep, which is impossible without the proper baby blanket. This article explained in detail how to make the right choice blankets for newborns.

General requirements for blankets for newborns. How to choose?

Newborns are sensitive - so the choice should be approached with great responsibility. To create a safe environment your child, it is necessary to make sure that the blanket meet certain requirements.

1. Temperature. The heat of the product must correspond to the temperature regime - the kid can not freeze or overheat. If a child is born in the summer, only a light version during the first months. If winter - you buy two options. Easy-to-room, warm for walking.
2. The size. Do not choose too small - the kid will not hide completely. You can not choose too much - this will prevent the child to move.
   

   To make it easier to understand, what size to choose, it is necessary to start from size beds, picking up a blanket for her size

3. The weight. Too heavy product may interfere with the baby to breathe and lead to many problems.
4. Softness. Hard materials can cause irritation in the baby.
5. Hypoallergenic.
6. Breathability. Blanket should warm, but at the same time allowing the skin to breathe.
7. Moisture exchange. Material must quickly absorb the moisture to evaporate it.
8. Environmentally friendly. Discard the harmful toxic materials.
9. Easy to clean. When buying consult with the seller, ask him about the care. Baby bedding needs constant washing, so give up the option, where it will be a big problem.

Choosing a blanket for a newborn, watch carefully to see if the child has allergic reactions. Then it is necessary to refuse from the feather, wool, fur, not to accidentally hurt the baby. Do not buy cheap products market, it is better to buy at the company store, always with a quality certificate. If the seller refuses to present itself - find another, do not risk the health of their child. Remember, one option is not enough - they need at least two. One - to use at home, the other - walking. Even if your baby was born in the summer, it is likely to need in a warm blanket, a street in the autumn and winter. Purchase blankets for the next season a little larger in size as the baby grows during this time. Home is also better to buy two products - warm and easier. Do not buy a blanket with a large, easy drop-down pile, plenty of toxic dyes or large parts, of which a newborn may like. Color choose warm, sunny, refuse aggressive. Cool colors can make your baby fussy, too bright can scare and calm and warm, on the contrary, will delight children.

What materials are best?

The most popular materials: feathers, wool, linen, synthetics, bike, fleece, wool. Let us examine each of the options.

1. Pooh. Very friendly stuff, suitable for winter use. Soft, perfectly retains heat, but has some disadvantages. Firstly, down quickly it absorbs moisture, but slowly gets rid of it. Secondly, there live feather mites that cause allergies. Finally, it is extremely difficult to clean. It can not be washed, otherwise it rolled up and lose all of the properties. Have to use dry cleaning services. In addition it is necessary to constantly clean the steam product to exterminate mites. Continuous drying is also necessary. Duvets for children Lightweight, quilted, made up of filler and fabric cover. With them is good for a walk in the winter weather. Houses under the feather padding will be hot baby.
   

   Filler for dressed - down, warm, light, soft, but does not fit with allergies

2. Wool. Wool keeps dry heat, having good moisture exchange and air guide, useful properties. Kids under it not zaparivat, besides the product has a low weight. Blankets are divided into quilted - consisting of a fabric cover and filler, woven - they are loaded into the quilt and used in autumn or winter, knitted - they are well suited to the cool summer weather, but can not use them at all small. Of the minuses - Wool is easy to care, its like mites, moths, it can cause severe allergies.
   

   The filler is made of camel wool - the warm, healthy and natural, but also can cause allergies

3. Linen. Light, hygroscopic blankets, which are used in the summer season.
   

   Ecological natural linen blanket cotton cover - the ideal solution for the summer period

4. Bike. Cotton, comfortable material. Good air permeability, the baby is protected from excessive perspiration. Convenient to care - it dries quickly, keeps its shape. Suitable for walking in the summer.
   

   Baby flannelette blankets have a maximum level of comfort

5. Synthetic fillers. Cheap material that does not cause allergies. Light, soft, slightly less warm than the natural counterparts. It does not take root mites, mold, fungus. Easy to wash, long time keeps the original appearance. The only negative - a small greenhouse.
   

   Synthetic filler for blankets, bedspreads - inexpensive, lightweight, non-allergenic material

6. Fleece. Light, air guide, hypoallergenic soft material. The ideal option to walk during the summer.
   

   Fleece Blankets - the advantageous combination of economy, practicality, convenience and beauty

7. Vata. Warm filler. Non-allergenic, breathable. But bad dries, lump, losing shape and all useful qualities. Too heavy option for infants.
   

   Cotton wool in a blanket - a material whose quality has been tested for decades

8. Bamboo. Such products are expensive. But at the same time soft, long-lasting, silky, pleasant to the body, well-kept warm. Caring for them is not the most difficult. Has an antiseptic effect, is well ventilated, quickly absorbs and evaporates excess moisture. Before using it for two hours, left to spread out in a well-ventilated space so that it became more elaborate. Once a year or six months, aired for seven hours, vacuumed. In the other it does not need cleaning.
   

   Filler bamboo fiber - eco-friendly natural material, which give a comfortable sleep

For most materials need separate duvet covers. Their better to choose from natural cotton or linen soft tissue. Crocheted blankets are not suitable for infants - they are too rigid and not sufficiently warm.

How to care?

Care blanket depends entirely on the material. Familiarize yourself with the rules of the planned cleaning material on the Internet, on the label or the seller. Knowing some simple rules will help you do not accidentally spoil a baby blanket. Try not to buy sophisticated materials - you just spend too much. General requirements: give up the high-temperature, carefully flatten the packing during drying, ventilate the product from unnecessary odors.

The heat blanket

heat level can be determined by reading the label. There are multiple points from one to five. According to their numbers and defines.

• One point. Easy option suitable only for warm summer weather.
• Two points. Average light blanket. It can be used to walk during the cool summer days, or at home.
• Three dots. Option for warm autumn or spring weather. Average option for average temperatures.
• Four points. Warm option. Suitable for late autumn, early spring, late-onset of winter. Good warm, but severe frosts it is not enough.
• Five points. The warmest option. Baby warm in the cold, not allowing him to catch cold and get sick.

Blanket-transformer

Comfortable, practical thing. It combines a blanket and cover for the newborn. To turn one into the other can be a variety of ways - zipper, buttons, buttons, ribbons. This embodiment is ideal for outdoor walks in cold weather.

The outer layer products are usually made of waterproof material, and internal - from the soft, pleasant to the body. Baby in this product will be dry and warm.

With basic sewing skills, you can sew the quilt convertible with his hands. It can be used as a classic blanket, like an envelope to be discharged and for walking or as a game pad or mattress pad. Requirements for such products are the same as others.

Blanket-envelope to be discharged

Some acquire to extract some fancy envelopes. But it is irrational - the covers with bows and ruches you will not use for a long time, and it will purge this wraith. It is much easier to buy an envelope and buy or make your own accessories to it, which by the end of the celebration can be removed.

Examples of such accessories.

1. Tape. With them, the envelope can be 'wraparound', giving it a neat, beautiful view.
   

   Organza ribbon to be discharged

2. Bows. Round lush bows decorate the envelope is not less than the tapes.
   

   Beautiful bow on discharge from the hospital

3. Waist bows. Peculiar mix - bow with a ribbon that you can tie around the envelope, giving it a doubly pompous appearance.
   

   Bow-gum for the envelope to be discharged

4. Duvet cover. Practical accessory, at once able to make an image of a neat, beautiful.
   

   Duvet cover on an extract from the calico with lace

In addition to beauty, choose hypoallergenic blanket envelope to only have a baby, and eliminates any risk for the child.

Dimensions blankets

The choice should depend on the size of the baby and the crib. Blankets for next season usually buy the size of two more, as the child grows up markedly over several months. The smallest version - 60 to 120 centimeters. He's not very practical - it does not wrap the baby for a walk, and after a few months he will be too small to sleep. The most common options - see 135h100, 105h115 cm, 90x120 cm, 100x80 cm. Better to buy the size of room for growth, but not exactly in size - at the beginning of their life, children grow very fast, and bought a blanket may be enough in two months. The biggest one is 110h140sm, it may be enough even for a couple of years. But to make such a choice is possible only if you have a sufficiently large crib, or if your baby is big - miniature children a great product will only bring discomfort.

Choosing a blanket for a newborn, you choose how comfortable he will feel most of their time. But do not worry - thanks to this article, you can easily choose the perfect option for the child.

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