3 Tips For Finding The Best Sleep Sack For Your Baby

What is the best sleep sack for your baby? There are so many baby products on the market, the options are unlimited – which is extremely overwhelming parents! After having 4 babies, I liked Grobag best for baby sleep sacks – they are high quality and last from baby to baby, plus they come in different togs which helps keep my babies warm in the winter and comfortable in the summer.

Read more tips below for finding the best sleep sack for your baby!

There are mixed emotions when it comes to my babies sleep – on one hand I want to get into a good nap and sleep routine as soon as possible, but on the other hand I know that during the first 6 months of my baby’s life they go through many developmental leaps and that affects their sleep.

One of the early good sleep habits I tried to get into was swaddling my baby at night, but once your baby turns 3 months old you are not supposed to swaddle them. This is because 3 months is the average age a baby can roll from their back to their front, and if their arms are swaddled they are not able to turn their head if they have rolled to their tummy. It’s a recommendation for safe sleeping, and to decrease the amount of SIDS cases.

So what do you do when your baby turns 3 months old? And swaddling your baby is no longer an option?

It’s time to introduce your little one to a sleep sack!

Here are my 3 tips for finding the best sleep sack for your baby:

1. Tog. Is your baby’s room drafty? Do you need a winter sleep sack? Or a summer sleep sack? Tog is a measurement for the thickness of the sleepsack, which can range from 0.5 tog to 2.5 tog for baby sleep sacks. For my baby’s, we live in an older home so the rooms with more outer walls seem to be colder than others. I use a 2.5 tog sleep sack from October to February, and then use a 1.0 sleep sack for the Spring and Summer months.
2. Sleeves or no-sleeves. I prefer no-sleeves sleep sacks because it’s easier to get my squirmy baby’s arms into it – there are convenient snaps at the top of these 2.5 tog sleep sacks for quick changes! Trust me, the snaps at the top are quite handy when you have a tired, cranky baby.
3. Zipper placement. It’s a no-brainer that baby sleep sacks would have zippers versus buttons – but depending on if you have a mischievous little one who likes to unzip them self out of their sleep sack, you may want to purchase a sleep sack with the zipper to the side. Grobag has two zipper placement options – the front or the side.

I hope this helps you in your journey to finding the best sleep sack for your baby! All babies are different in sleeping habits, some sleep through the night early on and some babies take up to 1 year before they can sleep without waking. Check out my 5 Must-Have Baby Essentials For Encouraging Your Baby To Sleep Through The Night post or my Establishing A Night Routine With Your Baby post.

Is your baby ready to transition from swaddle to sleepsack? What are your worries about switching over? Let me know in a comment below!

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This post is in partnership with Oyaco Products Inc. in exchange for an honest review of their sleep sack products. All opinions are 100% my own.