Travel grobag advice?

[akc74]

Can someone just spell out to me what makes a grobag a travel grobag?! I have a grobag that I inherited that has a velcro slit at the bag, but that looks like it's for nappy checking so I assume there's another with various holes in for seatbelts?!

Does anyone know of other makes than the grobag ones? For some reason I really struggle getting my big baby in and out of the grobag, with its central zip, whereas my Jojo ones with zip down the side, and poppers at the shoulder, are much easier.

Also he is only 12 weeks but almost touching the end of his 0-6months Jojo one when he stretches out - I assume there's no issue with getting a 6-18month one, as long as I am sure he can't slip down into it?

Thanks

[Saffron]

Are travel grobags the ones with openings for 5-pt buggy/carseat safety belt system?

I didn't get on with the central zip ones either, but grobag does do some side zip ones. Buggy snuggles and baby gowns are also v useful.

[ClareC]

Travel gro bags have a split at the back so you can use a buggy / car seat harness with them. The zip will be at the front to allow a gap between the two zips for doing up the harness.

Not sure about makes other than Grobag.

[The Nappy Lady]

As ClareC says, any travel sleeping bag will have a zip centre front and centre back so you can bring the buckle which goes between babies legs through to insert the shoulder straps into. I was lent one which I'm pretty sure wasn't an actual Grobag....have you tried Google - a search on 'travel sleeping bags' might bring something up. Edited to add I found these:

http://www.mothercare.com/Baby-Travel-Sleeping-Bag-2-5/dp/B002RSGBBA/ref=sr_11_1/280-8353074-2720564?_encoding=UTF8&mcb=core

Looks good as you can actually turn it into 2 separate legs, so no fiddling trying to get baby out of car/bucket through sleeping bag, which I sometimes found tricky.

http://www.mothercare.com/Baby-Travel-Sleeping-Bag-2-5/dp/B002RSGBBA/ref=sr_11_1/280-8353074-2720564?_encoding=UTF8&mcb=core

http://www.thatcuteage.com/p2862-Grobag-Safari-So-Good-Travel

http://www.thatcuteage.com/search?find=%28Travel%29

Size wise, no issue with going up a size, as long as they are not too huge on him. You may find that length wise he doesn't get a lot longer over the next few months as at his stage babies often go 'out' (i.e. getting chubbier) rather than up, so see how it goes. I have a couple of sleeping bags that fold up at the back and then popper fasten to themselves to make them shorter, then you open them up to the full lenth as baby grows - they've been very good. They have central zips but I don't find it tricky to get baby into them, so maybe yours are just on the small size in general?

Hope you manage to get sorted.

[akc74]

Wow Molly thanks for the tips - and sorry you ended up doing the googling for me, but there are some good options there, so thank you very much!

A

[The Nappy Lady]

No worries - I had time to kill last night as you can tell!

OH, and spell check turned the word 'Buckle' into bucket on my last post....just on the off chance you were wondering why I had a bucket in the car seat with the baby LOL!!

Molly