Grobag® design, safety and care

With grobag® baby sleeping bags you know that every element has been carefully tested to ensure that it is as safe and comfortable as possible.

grobag® are always looking for ways to make grobag® baby sleeping bags even better. Based on research with parents, we invented the zip-click™ feature on 6-18m &  18-36m bags, which stops adventurous little ones from opening the zip.

 

Using your Grobag® baby sleeping bags safely and correctly

Composition

All grobag® baby sleeping bags have 100% cotton lining to go next to your baby's skin. All of the Grobag range also has 100% cotton outer fabric. This means that you can choose a 1.0TOG or a 0.5TOG grobag® baby sleeping bag for your baby which is 100% cotton.

Our range of 2.5TOG grobag® baby sleeping bags have a 100% woven cotton outer and lining with chemical free fire retardant polyester filling. This is lightweight and quick to dry.

Zips and poppers are always a chosen from a reputable branded supplier to ensure ongoing quality and safety.

Safety Information

Using your grobag® baby sleeping bag correctly:

  • Use your grobag® baby sleeping bag instead of blankets and sheets
  • Never use your grobag® baby sleeping bag with a duvet or quilt
  • Check that your baby's head cannot pass through the neck hole when the grobag® baby sleeping bag is fastened for use.
  • Adjust nightwear according to room temperature (you will soon discover the best combination of nightclothes and grobag® baby sleeping bag for your baby's bedroom). See what to wear page for more information.
  • Keep grobag® baby sleeping bags away from fire
  • If your baby shares your bed, make sure they are only in a grobag® baby sleeping bag and not under your own bedding as well
  • Remember to check your baby regularly
  • For more information see our Frequently Asked Questions, safe sleep page or call our customer services team on 1800 777 107.

Washing Information

grobag® baby sleeping bags can be washed at 40°C and tumble dried on a low heat setting. As with all cotton goods, we have designed the baby sleeping bags to allow for up to 5% shrinkage.

If your child has any allergies and you wish to wash clothes and bedding at 60°C, you should allow for a little more shrinkage. Our Organic grobag® baby sleeping bags can be machine washed at 60°C.

To ensure the long life of your baby sleeping bag the zip must be in the closed position throughout washing, tumble drying and ironing. Place a cloth over the zip when ironing.

Experience has told us that it is usually best to buy 2 grobag® baby sleeping bags – one to wear and one for the wash!


gro-group's policy on fire retardancy of grobag® baby sleeping bags

At gro-group™ we have a core commitment to ensure that our products are as safe as possible. In order to achieve this, we undertake risk assessments before making decisions about what components to use in our manufacture.

We do not use chemicals to fire retard grobag® baby sleeping bags. This is because prolonged exposure to a high dosage of chemical flame retardant carries considerable risks – for example they may impair the immune system (source. Intertek Testing Services). However, as a responsible manufacturer, we have undertaken to research non-chemical and safe ways in which to reduce the flammability of baby sleeping bags.

Outer fabric and lining: Where possible, we use 100%cotton lining on our grobag® baby sleeping bags in order that a natural and breathable product like cotton will always be next to a baby’s skin. The majority of our grobag® baby sleeping bags also have 100% cotton outer fabric. The only possible way in which to fire retard cotton is to add chemicals and we believe that the risk to an infant of direct contact with these chemicals (by skin contact, sucking or inhaling) outweighs the potential risks associated with fire.

Filling: The filling of our 2.5 tog grobag® baby sleeping bags is made from 100% polyester. It is possible to construct this filling in such a way as to meet the fire retardancy requirements without adding any chemicals. In order to achieve this we use a special mix of three different types of polyester fibres which between them produce a 100% chemical free polyester wadding that complies with BS5852 Ignition Source 0, and will effectively "retard" any flame that comes into contact with the wadding. The choice of this wadding is preferable to the other two options which are as follows:
  1. Standard polyester wadding with no FR properties, when burnt, emits a nasty smell, dark smoke and leaves behind a very hot black residue that, could stick to and burn the skin.
  2. Chemically fire retarded polyester wadding, the exposure to which is potentially harmful to an infant.
We therefore believe that the third option of a chemical free and inherently fire retardant polyester wadding is completely in line with our core safety and quality values.

Although the cotton outer and lining are not fire retarded, the use of the inherently fire retardant polyester filling on our range of 2.5 tog grobag® baby sleeping bags effectively helps to retard fire on a made up product rather than contributing to it, which would be the case if we used a standard (and cheaper) non-FR alternative.

Ouvrielle Holmes
Founding Director
gro-group™
June 2005