Baby Comforters & Toys: Snuggle Squad

First friends, chosen carefully. Soft comforters and security blankets in bunny and lion, small enough to be dragged absolutely everywhere. Choose a face you can tolerate looking at every single day for the next two years.
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The one they will not go to bed without

A baby comforter is a small square of fabric with a soft animal head attached, and somehow it becomes the single most important object in the house. The range covers bunnies and a lion in muted, nursery friendly shades, with a soft cotton muslin outer and a polyester filling that keeps them light enough for small hands to hang on to.

Comforters do their best work at settling time, where a familiar smell and texture helps a baby wind down. For the first seven months that happens in your arms, in the pram and at daycare drop-off, because Red Nose advises keeping soft toys out of the cot until then. After that, a comforter can make an unfamiliar cot at grandma's house feel like home, which is worth considerably more than it costs.

They make excellent newborn gifts, particularly alongside a gift set or a tiny bow. For the full picture, from choosing to washing, the comforter buying guide covers the rest, and the smocks and bibs arrive once solids do. Australian owned, shipped from Melbourne.

What age is a comforter suitable for? Australian safe sleep guidance keeps soft items out of the cot for roughly the first seven months, so most families use a comforter for daytime cuddles, pram trips and settling in arms before it moves into the cot at all. After that it becomes a sleep association in its own right. Always follow current Red Nose advice for your baby's age.

How do I wash one? Gentle cycle inside a laundry bag, cool water, mild detergent, then air dry flat and well away from a heater. The polyester filling holds water, so give it considerably longer to dry than you think it needs. Wash it on a day you can survive without it, which is to say, not at bedtime.

Should I really buy two? Yes. The second one is insurance, and every parent who has ignored this advice has later driven back to a cafe car park at nine at night. At under $30 each it is cheap insurance too: keep one in the daycare bag and one at home, and rotate them so both smell and feel equally worn in, because a pristine spare introduced in an emergency gets rejected on sight by anyone over ten months old.