This is one of my favourite gripes. Did you know that in

Europe they have never heard of the word TOG. We just came back from the huge baby show in

Cologne where the world and his uncle go to show their new products to the nursery trade. The huge companies from Scandinavia and

Germany, the fabulous Italians and of course a raft of Chinese are all there.

The northern European countries have been wearing sleeping bags for centuries and it was indeed their designs which were copied by some of the famous

UK names in sleeping bags.

But they never bothered in

Europe with sleeping bag weights and things like TOGS. They all used common sense.

If their house is cold and bitter in the winter then the babies are put to bed in thick warm down filled sleeping bags. In a very hot summer they are put in the coolest of thin cotton sleeping bags, more to keep the baby feeling secure and to avoid mosquito bites on the baby.

If the modern mum in

Europe is living in a smart new home that has central heating then they buy a sleeping bag of a lightweight mixture so they can keep the baby at a sensible temperature in the centrally heated home.

 

Ask yourself if you have any regulation for you to have duvets at a recommended temperature TOG rating for your home? No we don’t. We have options of different weights and fillings to suit our purse and our home temperatures of various rating but in the end we all choose what we personally prefer for our homes.

Of course some of us are very hot people and are more comfortable in lighter bedding whilst others, me included, are always cold and pile on the bedclothes in winter.

 

So how can there be just one rating for a baby?

 

I often think there must be some poor baby in some exotic flat in London boiling away in the 2.5 tog rating in winter and another baby in deepest darkest welsh valley freezing in an old stone house in mid winter.

 

Just because there is some weird idea that they must all have 2.5 tog rating.

 

What do you feel? Have we all gone mad? Why does no one question this?

 

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