Hooded Baby Towels

Advantages: Keeps baby warm
Disadvantages: Get a bit small after a couple of months

I have several hooded towels for my baby boy, Oliver. Some were gifts from family and friends and some were bought along with the weekly shop from Asda. This has given me a wide assortment of colours and types. ** A What? ** Alongside your bath time essentials of baby soap and shampoo and a hand cloth or baby sponge, you are going to need something to wrap baby in when they get out the bath. A normal towel will do, but when you have a tiny newborn ...
...through baby's head, so a hooded towel is an ideal solution to this problem. They are usually square shaped, about 75cm by 75cm, and have a hood in one corner. Designs and colours vary widely, from plain white to all the colours of the rainbow, to embroidered, to Winnie the Pooh (oh how I hate him so!). Some even have cute faces with little ears poking out on them. They are usually made of 100% cotton, which is soft, breathable, easy to wash - a ... Read review

Advantages: baby looks cute in it
Disadvantages: expensive purchase

...was given one of these hooded towels as a present when my son was born 18 months ago.I was of course delighted to receive it,just so you don't think i'm an ungrateful ill mannered individual!However having said that it's not something I would have bought for myself for the following reasons- 1.The towel is very expensive,mine came from mothercare and cost £10!Probably because it had winnie the on! 2.The towel is quite small(about 100x50 cm)and ...
...months. 3.I found the towel difficult to fold as the hood means you have to fold it diagonally.Yes I know that's sad but I like my towels in a neat folded pile in the airing cupboard! Now for a more detailed description-The towel is about 100cm-50cm.It is 85%cotton and has a hood on one corner.The idea is that you wrap the baby in the towel after their bath and the hood prevents heat loss through the babys head. These towels can be bought as part ... Read review

Advantages: er.....cute
Disadvantages: too small, don't last very long

...me a large number of hooded towels. Basically a hooded towel is a square towel, usually around 75cm across with a small hood in one corner. The idea of this is to be able to cover the baby's head, as well as body, when you take them out the bath. The reason for this is that baby's lose most of their heat from the head and obviously coming out of a warm bath the baby is likely to get cold quickly. Although these towels are about 75cm across you have ...
...side of the towel to the other is actually more like 50cm. When my son was born he weighed a quite 'normal' 7lb 5oz and for the first few weeks we were able to wrap him sufficiently in the towel. However, by the time he was around 6 weeks old trying to wrap him completely in the towel was out of the question. Quite simply using a towel diagonally greatly reduces the life span (I hope I'm not confusing you). Just try wrapping your normal bath towel ... Read review

Advantages: keeps babys head warm
Disadvantages: they don't do them big enough for me!

...You can get the normal hooded one, as i described above, or you can get a poncho style. This slips over their head like a dress, with the hood on the top. It covers the whole of their body. This i find is better for the older children. ~~~~ sizes ~~~~ The towels can come in different sizes. I find some of them are rather small, and only last the baby a few months. Kieran has a smaller one. He is now nine months, and it is getting to small to ...
...shrunk it. Mothercares normal hooded towels, are about 20 inches across, and 43 inches down, Which i don't think is big enough. I would say that these would last up to a year max. You can get them larger, from other places, which I would say are from 6mnths to 2 years. The Pontho ones, are for around 2-7 years, and average at 45 x 25 inches. So you can find one out there for most ages. But shop around and check the sizes before you buy. ~~~~~~ ... Read review

Advantages: look pretty, usually soft
Disadvantages: expensive, small, pretty useless

...into the trap of buying hooded towels for both of my children and each time wondering why I bothered. Basically what they are are very small towels, more like hand towels, with an extra triangle shaped piece of towel sown into one corner in order to make a hood. This time I chose a Mothercare pack of three towels in shades of pink and white. This cost me £12, but if you shop around you can find them slightly cheaper at around £3 per towel, or a ...
...towel! I was disapointed with the mothercare ones as while in the pack they look quite thick and soft but upon opening you realise that the thickness comes from layers of cardboard wedged in between each towel! They are thin and not exactly rough but they could be softer. The idea is that you put the hood over the babys head, lying baby diagonally across the towel. You then wrap the baby up in the other corners of the towel. This sounds okay in ... Read review