Do Not Cover Your Baby
Seeing a parent pushing a pushchair with a blanket draped over it is a fairly common sight. However, Doctors have warned it could potentially be fatal.It would quickly become uncomfortable and potentially dangerous for the baby … if a baby gets too hot then the baby may think that it is back in the womb, which is why breathing may stop.
An experiment was conducted when the pushchair was left on a normal summers day uncovered the temperature did not rise above 22C. A thin cover was then placed over the pushchair. After 30 minutes the heat inside had risen 34C. An hour after it was a sweltering 37C.
Parents end up resorting to draping blankets over their prams to give babies some shade from the heat and darkness to help them sleep, but what they’re not considering is that these blankets or sheets are not manufactured to be breathable.
Regardless of what you choose to use on your pushchair, it is common sense to keep your baby cool and shaded in hot weather. The sunlight is made even more dangerous by UV, so if you can also use something that blocks these rays, your baby will feel even cooler.
