If your LO sleeps in a RnP

sadie+w

How do you keep them warm? A swaddle doesn't work since the RnP strap goes between their legs. I feel like a sleeper alone can't be warm enough. I thought about tucking a small blanket around his waist and legs, but doesn't that go against the 'no blankets while sleeping' rule?
Thanks!

twoitalians

I guess the baby gear makers didn't think of that when they made the safety straps LOL. I don't see why a sleeper wouldn't be warm enough unless it is really cold where you are. I don't have a RnP but I have strapped DS into a swing with the leg straps while he's worn a sleep sack, just bunched it up in the middle.

sadie+w

twoitalians:

I guess the baby gear makers didn't think of that when they made the safety straps LOL. I don't see why a sleeper wouldn't be warm enough unless it is really cold where you are. I don't have a RnP but I have strapped DS into a swing with the leg straps while he's worn a sleep sack, just bunched it up in the middle.

Thanks! It's pretty chilly where I am but we keep our house at 72. I guess I thought a sleeper wouldn't be warm enough bc if I slept in a sleeper with no blanket, I'd be cold! :

agapeflower117

If you swaddle your LO the way the "Happiest Baby on the Block" suggests (I think you can Google how they do it without buying the book), it makes room for their legs to open so you can put the safety straps in.  That's what we did, but the blanket would still go up over his face, so now we use a Woombie.  It has two zippers and can unzip from the bottom as well as the top, so we just unzip him to his navel and use the safety straps normally and his arms are still swaddled just fine.  Hope that helps!

mindymaske

I use a blanket and tuck in under LO's arms and then it just covers her lap

LyndseylovesHugh

BobKat22:

I swaddle and don't strap her in. She's young enough she isn't going anywhere. She would have to climb out of that thing.

This.  Once she is old enough to get out of the RNP I will either transition to her crib or just put her in a sleeper.

CCE126

Some of my swaddles have a hole in the back so that you can strap them in.

michelle7482

I put a blanket around her waist.  When she started to pull the blankets up to her face, I stopped using them but it was also the beginning of summer then so we really didn't need them.

For those of you that don't strap: a few months ago, a mom posted on one of the boards that her LO turned over in the RnP and could not breathe.  He was face down and she found in just in time.  Pretty scary!  I also used the straps!

Meery82

Try tucking a blanket into the hole in the net by the feet and keep enough blanket out just to cover up to the waist. It anchors it into place so they can't pull it up over their face. 

NerdyMama2

I swaddle and don't strap in, like PPs.

sweetiebird726

I tightly tuck a light blanket (usually one of the aden and anais) around DS's legs while he is strapped in.  He is a wiggler when asleep, but breaks out of every swaddle we have tried since coming home from the hospital.  He also hates the swaddlemes for some reason... he also turns himself to his side when in a swaddle. 

I always strap him in now since the one day when we didn't strap him in, and he had wiggled himself in further so he was slouched over and his feet were closer to the edge.  

We leave his arms free since he throws them around while he sleeps, and I didn't want him pulling the blanket over his face. 

tammynixx

I tuck a blanket under his arms.

danieliza1127

I just put him in the footie pajamas and he does fine.  Since it's gotten colder, I went out and bought a couple more that are thicker/warmer.  Some nights if his feet are cold, I put socks on him and then the footie pajamas.  He seems to do just fine.

 Oh I don't strap him in either.  He isn't rolling at all yet.