GroBag
Grobag® baby sleeping bag design features Sleeping safely with a grobag® baby sleeping bag. grobag® baby sleeping bags are a safe alternative to traditional blankets and top sheets. There is hardly a baby in the world that does not kick off top bedding, become chilly in the middle of the night and wake up the house! Our grobag® baby sleeping bags keep them warm and cosy, whatever position they end up in by the morning, which means a safer sleeping environment for your baby and more sleep for you. Recent research in the UK found that loose bedding could increase the risk of cot death by up to 9 times. It is well known that babies should be put to sleep on their backs, but not so well known are the potential dangers of loose bedding going over babies heads and over heating by using too much bedding. Their is a definite increase in SIDS during winter months and this is thought to be due to loose bedding and over heating. We believe a grobag® baby sleeping bag help parents follow the 'Reduce the risk' message, and contribute towards making a safer sleeping environment for babies. We also follow guidelines set by the Foundation for the Study of Infant Death (FSIDS), that baby sleeping bags should be sleeve-less, no hood, well-fitting and a low tog rating, no more than 2.5 togs. grobag® baby sleeping bags are thermal rated (TOG rated) with a guide to dressing your child. They are designed to keep babies at a safe comfortable temperature and have the correct size neck openings so babies will not slip down into the baby sleeping bag. If I’m not in my grobag® baby sleeping bag, I kick off all my covers, get cold, cry, and wake up Mummy & Daddy! My grobag® baby sleeping bag keeps me at just the right temperature all night long. Each grobag® baby sleeping bag comes with a free Nursery thermometer and guide to dressing your child in the bag depending on the room temperature. I feel very safe, because I can’t slip down inside my grobag® baby sleeping bag bag, unlike sheets and blankets, which can go over my head. I can wake up in the night, play with Teddy and fall back to sleep without getting cold! I really like it when Mummy cuddles me to sleep in my grobag® baby sleeping bag (she says I go back to my cot without waking up!) When I go on my holidays or at a sleep over at Grandma's, however strange the room or the bed, I always feel at home in my favourite grobag® ! Mummy & Daddy also asked me to say that my grobag® baby sleeping bag Make sure that your baby’s legs and feet have freedom to move about, by ensuring that the grobag® baby sleeping bag is long enough for your baby. The lengths of grobag® baby sleeping bags (from shoulder to bottom) are:
- Please note: A number of external factors determine the tog rating of the sleeping bag that should be used. These include the quantity of clothing the baby is wearing, the temperature of the infant’s bedroom, the baby’s health and the amount of bedding necessary to keep an individual infant warm – this may vary as it does for adults. 4. Choose a design
With grobag® baby sleeping bags you know that every element has been carefully tested to ensure that it is as safe and comfortable as possible.
grobag® are always looking for ways to make grobag® baby sleeping bags even better. Based on research with parents, we invented the zip-click™ feature on 18-36 month bags, which stops adventurous little ones from opening the zip.
Please note the new chin guard and zip click™ features are not on the To The Moon, Betsy Bunny, Home Grown Baby and Peter Rabbit fabrics selections.
Using your grobag® baby sleeping bags safely and correctly
Use your grobag® baby sleeping bag instead of blankets and top sheets. Never use your grobag® baby sleeping bags with a duvet or quilt. Adjust nightwear according to room temperature (you will soon discover the best combination of nightclothes and Grobag™ baby sleeping bag for your baby’s bedroom) If your baby shares your bed, make sure he is only in a Grobag™ baby sleeping bag and not under your own bedding as well.
For safety reasons, please do not use a Grobag ® with a duvet or quilt.
Washing instructions
grobag® baby sleeping bags can be washed at 40ºC and tumble dried on a low heat setting. As with all cotton goods, we have designed the baby sleeping bags to allow for up to 5% shrinkage. If your child has any allergies and you wish to wash clothes and bedding at 60ºC, you should allow for a little more shrinkage.
To ensure the long life of your baby sleeping bag the zip must be in the closed position throughout washing, tumble drying and ironing. Place a cloth over the zip when ironing.
gro-group's policy on fire retardancy of grobag® baby sleeping bags
At gro-group™ we have a core commitment to ensure that our products are as safe as possible. In order to achieve this, we undertake risk assessments before making decisions about what components to use in our manufacture.
We do not use chemicals to fire retard grobag® baby sleeping bags. This is because prolonged exposure to a high dosage of chemical flame retardant carries considerable risks – for example they may impair the immune system (source. Intertek Testing Services). However, as a responsible manufacturer, we have undertaken to research non-chemical and safe ways in which to reduce the flammability of baby sleeping bags.
Outer fabric and lining: Where possible, we use 100%cotton lining on our grobag® baby sleeping bags in order that a natural and breathable product like cotton will always be next to a baby’s skin. The majority of our grobag® baby sleeping bags also have 100% cotton outer fabric. The only possible way in which to fire retard cotton is to add chemicals and we believe that the risk to an infant of direct contact with these chemicals (by skin contact, sucking or inhaling) outweighs the potential risks associated with fire.
Filling: The filling of our 2.5 tog grobag® baby sleeping bags is made from 100% polyester. It is possible to construct this filling in such a way as to meet the fire retardancy requirements without adding any chemicals. In order to achieve this we use a special mix of three different types of polyester fibres which between them produce a 100% chemical free polyester wadding that complies with BS5852 Ignition Source 0, and will effectively "retard" any flame that comes into contact with the wadding. The choice of this wadding is preferable to the other two options which are as follows:
We therefore believe that the third option of a chemical free and inherently fire retardant polyester wadding is completely in line with our core safety and quality values.
Although the cotton outer and lining are not fire retarded, the use of the inherently fire retardant polyester filling on our range of 2.5 tog grobag® baby sleeping bags effectively helps to retard fire on a made up product rather than contributing to it, which would be the case if we used a standard (and cheaper) non-FR alternative.
Ouvrielle Holmes
Founding Director
gro-group™
June 2005
0-6 m
76cm
6-18 m
94cm
18-36m
112cm
3-6yrs
128cm
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2. Choose a tog rating
A tog measurement is a European warmth rating: the higher the tog, the warmer the product. grobag® baby sleeping bags are available in three tog ratings.
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Check your baby regularly to ensure they do not overheat.
Your grobag® baby sleeping bag comes with a free nursery thermometer to help you select which tog baby sleeping bag to use and what sleepwear to put your baby in.
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3. What to wear
The table below shows guidelines for the amount of clothing for your baby and the correct tog of grobag® baby sleeping bag that should be used in different nursery temperatures. Please remember that these are recommendations only as all babies are different. You will soon discover the best level of clothing for your individual baby.
Grobag® baby sleeping bags come in a wide range of designs so simply browse the full product range to find the ones you like best! Its strongly recommend you consider buying 2 baby sleeping bags, because, although they wash and dry quickly, you never know when you’ll need a spare one in the middle of the night! Because of this, Bambini Pronto offer a $10 discount when you buy 2 at the same time.
