4 Wearable Blanket Materials to Keep Your Baby Comfortable and Safe

Preparing for a baby can be a whirlwind of excitement and joy mixed with a little trepidation. One of the most important things ways to prepare involves arranging a safe environment for your baby to sleep. Once your baby arrives, they will need to be laid down to sleep on their back in a separate space, such as a bedside bassinet, with a fitted sheet and no blankets. Instead of blankets, it’s in your baby’s best interest for you to find a wearable blanket or a sleep sack. You can find this sleep essential designed with different materials.

 

Bassinet That Vibrates

100% Cotton 

Cotton is a classic choice for your baby’s wearable blanket, sleep sack, or swaddle. Its absorbent material is convenient when you have a baby who is somehow always wet on some part of their body. The TOG value—the thermal insulation measurement—is usually low with cotton sleepwear. Depending on sleepwear style, the TOG for a cotton sleep sack can be 0.5 for a wearable blanket and 1.5 for a swaddle. However, you can layer clothes underneath this material if your baby isn’t warm enough.

Cozy Micro-Fleece
 

Micro-fleece is a thin and cozy material. It’s easy to wash and dries very quickly. The moisture-wicking fabric is well-insulated, and it can keep your baby comfortable. However, consider carefully whether or not your baby would wear any clothing under a micro-fleece wearable blanket or sleep sack swaddle, depending on the temperature. These options can have a TOG of 1.0 or 3.0, respectively. A bonus for both micro-fleece and cotton is that many companies offer them in a variety of cute patterns.
 
 Soft Muslin
 
Muslin is a fabric you may associate with swaddling blankets rather than wearable sleep sacks. HALO® Sleep designed the perfect example of a comfortable muslin wearable blanket with their SleepSack® Platinum Quilted Muslin product. The gentle, finely woven muslin material is lined with quilted fabric for the sleepwear with a TOG value of 1.0. This wearable blanket and the HALO® Sleep bassinet that vibrates are excellent products that help your baby get to sleep safely and comfortably.
 
 Plush Velboa 
 
Even if you’ve never heard of velboa, you might be more familiar with this material than you think. It can be considered a faux fur fabric, but infant sleepwear made with velboa may feel like an even cozier microfleece. Velboa is a durable, machine-washable fabric. Despite its durability, the material is super soft; even cuddly. The TOG value for velboa sleepwear sits between 1.0 for a wearable blanket and 3.0 for a sleep sack swaddle.
 

If you don’t know what material will work best, remember that your first choice does not have to be the only option for your baby. You can allow them to try out different materials as long as the TOG value is in-line with their sleep environment. You must also think about how the atmosphere can change throughout the year depending the weather outside and inside of the home. Once you have everything prepared, you can find out which material allows your baby to sleep comfortably in their environment.
 
 About HALO® Sleep 
 
 Innovation and safety come together in the safe sleep products from HALO® Sleep. For over twenty-five years, HALO® Sleep has been working hard to provide new and growing families with bedside bassinets and wearable blankets for a safer sleep environment. Since they first designed the HALO® SleepSack®, the wearable blanket has remained a preferred product of families and hospitals nationwide, and HALO® Sleep a trusted resource for modern parents. With a SleepSack® and the patented 360° swiveling bassinet known as the BassiNest®, you can safely tend to your single baby, or to twins using the twin bassinet. HALO® Sleep and their unmatched products for infants and toddler help you family avoid dangers associated with an unsafe sleep environment. 
 
 Browse through HALO® Sleep’s collection of safe infant sleepwear at https://www.halosleep.com/

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