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Warm Winter Essentials for Babies & Children

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Tips & guides to keep bubs cosy

Summer Sleep

Winter Baby Sleeping Bag Guide

Once the autumn starts it's time to think about a winter sleeping bag, which will ensure your baby or toddler stays warm through the cold winter nights. If your baby isn't warm enough, she will find it very hard to resettle during the night and you'll be up out of your warm bed much more often!

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How To Layer Your Baby's Sleepwear At Night

Babies often wake from the cold in the early hours of the morning, but it can be hard to work out how to layer your baby at night, especially if baby's room is hot at the start of the night, but drops quickly overnight. So, if you're wondering how to layer your babe for cooler temperatures, here’s a handy guide to winter layers for your baby.

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Top 5 Winter Essentials For Baby Sleep

Keeping baby warm in winter needn't be hard! Parents can fret over how many layers is too many or if baby will wake up cold, but with a few key pieces, all you'll have to do is add or take off a layer or two depending on the warmth of your home. We've picked our top 5 essential items to keep your baby warm this winter.

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Wellbeing

Comparing Vaporisers, Humidifiers & Diffusers

Coughs, dry tickly throats, congestion and colds can disrupt a baby's sleep. A humidifier can be used to increase air moisture for easier breathing as part of your wellness kit. Vaporisers & humidifiers are commonly used for dry coughs, colds, congestion, dry, scratchy throats & dry, itchy skin. We've refined our range over time so you can pick from the best selection available.

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Cough & Cold Remedies

The Sleep Store asked our facebook community for their best remedies for helping little ones when they have a cold, stuffy noses and difficulty feeding and sleeping. Here's what they recommended.

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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. So read on to learn all about overheating and how to avoid this risk with your little precious.

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How to care for your merino

Merino For Babies And Children - The Sleep Store Guide

Merino is a natural wool fibre that comes from Merino sheep. Known, for it's softness and versatility, merino is nature's wonder fibre. It's grown year round using sustainable farming practices and has a very light environmental footprint, especially when compared with synthetics. All it takes is sun, water, air and grass to grow new merino wool every year.

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Merino fabric care & stain removal information

The Sleep Store highly recommends using merino fabric for your baby and children's nightwear. The wonderful properties of merino are becoming more widely known and many children are now sleeping better as a result. We have sourced the following information about merino, a true wonder fibre. Caring for your Merino will help it last longer.

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Top Merino Clothing & Sleepwear Questions From Our Customers

We at The Sleep Store are passionate about helping new babies and parents sleep better, which is why we've developed our exclusive range of 100% merino clothing, sleepwear and sleeping bags.

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Help keep your little ones warm & cosy

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Watch our Winter Videos:

Winter Sleeping Bags

Winter Sleeping Bags Deep Dive

In this video, Lou talks through our range and answers loads of your questions from what TOG ratings mean and why some bags have sleeves and some don’t through to which bags are the longest and if polyester-filled bags are okay.

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Layering a Woolbabe Duvet Bag 16 - 18 Degrees

Keeping bubs toasty warm at room temperatures between 16 and 18 degrees is easy with our layering guide. Dress baby in a long sleeve bodysuit, PJ's (or zip suit) and wool socks and you can be sure they'll be toasty all night.

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Layering a Woolbabe Duvet Bag - 18 - 20 Degrees

Keeping bubs cosy, but not too hot at room temperatures between 18 and 20 degrees is easy with our layering guide. Dress baby in a zip suit (or onesie) with the Woolbabe Duvet Weight sleeping bag.

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Layering a Woolbabe Duvet Bag - 20 - 22 Degrees

Keeping bubs cosy, but not too hot at room temperatures between 20 and 22 degrees is easy with our layering guide. Dress baby in a long sleeve bodysuit with the Woolbabe Duvet Weight sleeping bag to help keep them the right temperature all night.

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Merino & it's benefits for your baby & good sleep

We love merino at The Sleep Store. What is so wonderful about this fabric? Why is it so helpful in allowing your baby or child to sleep longer and easier? Did you even know it's fire-resistant?

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Woolbabe Weight Differences

Is a Summer or 3-Seasons Woolbabe best for you when the nights get warmer? We look at all three woolbabe weight options and show you how they differ and what room temperatures to use them with

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Layering Tips - Merino Fleece with a Woolbabe 3 Seasons

Lou and Amanda give guidance on how you can best layer your new The Sleep Store Merino Fleece with a Woolbabe 3 Seasons Sleeping Bag. What temperatures are suitable and should we layer anything else underneath?

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Humidifier Guides

Why Use a Humidifier?

Humidifiers add essential moisture to indoor air. When heating your home or using air conditioning, the air can become dry. The NZ Ministry of Health recommends using a humidifier to increase moisture in the air as a form of self-care when you have a cold. Safe for newborn babies, adults and everyone in between, a humidifier increases air moisture for easier breathing and a good night’s sleep.

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Crane Humidifier FAQs

Do you have a question about Crane Humidifiers? Watch Louise answer real customer questions about our most popular Crane Humidifiers

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What are the main difference between the Crane humidifiers?

Watch as Lou from The Sleep Store takes you through our range of Crane humidifiers. Humidifiers work by adding moisture to the air for easier breathing. They can be used for coughs, colds, congestion, dry, scratchy throats and dry skin. Listen to Lou discuss the Crane humidifier range, including the Mini Adorables, the 4-in-1 Top Fill Drop w/ Sound Machine, the Droplet & the Personal Humidifier with Aroma Diffuser.

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Crane 4-in-1 Filter Free Top Fill Drop Cool Mist Humidifier w/ Sound Machine

Watch as Lou from The Sleep Store shows you how to use the Crane 4-in-1 Filter Free Top Fill Drop Cool Mist Humidifier w/ Sound Machine. Lou demonstrates the top fill tank and cap for easy filling and cleaning and shows you how to use the sound machine, with 3 sounds. This model takes a Crane Vapour Pad in Menthol or Lavendar and you can also add your own essential oils if you prefer (we don't recommended essential oils while pregnant or for small babies).

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Crane Mini Adorable Overview

Watch Lou from The Sleep Store demonstrate how the Crane Mini Adorable Works. She demonstrates the light functionality how the tank works and where to place the Vapour pad. The Crane Adorable Mini Cool Mist Humidifier and Aroma Diffuser is used by parents looking for natural alternatives to cough medicine and other croup, colds and cough remedies, as it increases the moisture in the air. Increased moisture in the air can be used for dry coughs, colds, nose bleeds, itchy eyes, dry scratchy throats and congestion with newborn babies right through to toddlers and adults.

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Crane Aroma Diffuser and Humidifier

Watch as Lou demonstrates the Crane Personal Ultrasonic Cool Mist Humidifier and Aroma Diffuser which adds moisture to the air for easier breathing. This model is fantastic for small and medium sized rooms, it features a 1.3l tank but runs up to 17 hours and humidifies a room up to 18.5 sq. m. You can add oils directly to the tank of this Crane, however we don't recommend using essential oils if you're pregnant or for children under 3 months of age.

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