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To decide on the crucial question as to how many layers need to be wrapped around a baby’s delicate frame, many factors come into play.
For instance, accessing the weather conditions as well as the baby’s health condition is important before making the final call. However, the saying- Less is more, is surely applicable here.
The baby will be his/her comfortable best in breathable clothing. The more you add a layer, the more restrictive will it get?
One layer extra than what you are wearing is the most accepted mantra while deciding on how many layers for the infant. But let us be a little more specific than that, and focus on particular season clothing-
Winters
1. Start with winters; some feel the more you add on the layers, the warmer the baby we feel. The trick is to ditch the layers, rather choose snug clothing.
If you’ve got warm thermal wear for the infant inside, a single layer above it, with an additional cardigan or jacket is enough. So, in all, it’s four layers at the most - undergarments, thermals, dress or other apparel, jacket/cardigan.
2. To keep the baby well protected from catching a cold, cover his head with a cap and feet with socks at all times.
3. In extreme cases, like that at the time of snow, you may have another layer (snowsuit) added when taking the baby out.
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4. Another reason to layer it up in winters is to protect the baby’s skin from the ruff woolens (especially the hand-knitted woolen clothes in India). It is always important to have a soft layer of clothing underneath, so as to not have any rashes or itching caused.
Monsoons
1. It can get sticky and uncomfortable during this season, and having laden with layer after layer of clothing can make it clumsier.
2. Keep the clothing breathable, and flowy. Full sleeves are recommended to protect the child from mild chills as well as mosquito bites. Two layers are sufficient unless it is raining cats and dogs.
3. Carry along raincoats wherever you go or you could buy water-proof hooded jackets too. You will find a lot of variety of online, clothes specially designed for children in monsoons.
However, it is best to dress the child in lightweight water-proof fabrics at all times in this season.
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Summers
1. Now summers don’t scream to ditch the layering entirely. Make it light by choosing summery fabrics, but for babies, still, a layer of soft inner garments should not be done away with even in the summers.
2. Opt for sheer or cotton fabrics, flowery prints, sunhats and caps for babies and beat the summer heat for your cutie.
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So it’s best to have season-specific clothes shopping done in India for your child as the temperature variations are quite striking, and if it’s not always easy to go hopping into malls every time you can choose the convenient option of shopping online.
It is not only time saving, but most of the time, you even get better deals as well as various online than you’d probably get in any local store.
Oh! And before we end, here are our parting tips to check whether the baby is at ease with all the layers wrapped around him/her:
1. Mothers, check the baby’s body temperature by placing the back of your hand on the baby’s bare chest and tummy. If it’s cold, the baby is cold, if it’s hot, the baby needs some ease by removing one layer.
2. Cold hands and feet are no indication of a baby being cold inside. It is only due to the immature circulation in babies that this happens. Not something to worry about.
3. Check if the baby is perspiring; it is better to remove a layer of clothing and then if it helps keep it so. Or else check whether the perspiration is due to any sickness (maybe he is running fever!)
4. It becomes, even more, to monitor the baby while sleeping, because, at the time, the baby is most vulnerable to changing temperatures. Also, there is no need to cover the head when the baby sleeps.
