Baby Christmas Pyjamas

Baby Christmas pyjamas, Christmas baby grows and baby Christmas sleepsuit designs in festive prints, from first Christmas sets to matching designs the whole household can wear. Soft cotton and brushed cotton, cut for sleeping rather than posing.

Older siblings are covered by our kids Christmas pyjamas collection, which picks up where this one finishes, and most prints run right through to adult sizes.

What Is the Difference Between a Christmas Sleepsuit and Baby Pyjamas?

Most people shopping for baby Christmas nightwear think they are buying pyjamas when they actually want a sleepsuit. The words get used interchangeably online, which makes it genuinely hard to know what will turn up.

A Christmas sleepsuit or babygrow is a single all-in-one garment, usually with integrated feet and a full-length popper opening. It is the standard garment for babies under about a year, and it is what most festive baby nightwear actually is.

Baby Christmas pyjamas are a separate top and bottoms, built like an older child's set. These start to make sense once a baby is standing and walking, generally past the first year.

A romper has shorter legs and no feet, and tends to be daytime wear rather than something to sleep in.

Our range covers all three, so it is worth checking which one a product is before ordering rather than going by the title alone.

First Christmas Sleepsuits and Babygrows

A first Christmas is the most common reason this collection gets bought, and it is usually bought by someone other than the parents. Grandparents, aunts and family friends account for a large share of my first Christmas sleepsuit and my first Christmas baby grow purchases, which is exactly why sizing goes wrong so often.

If you are buying as a gift and unsure of the baby's current size, buy up rather than down. A sleepsuit a few months too big is a photo opportunity. One a few months too small cannot be worn at all, and it is the last thing anyone wants to be returning in late December.

Keeping a Baby the Right Temperature at Christmas

Overheating is a greater risk than being cold, and Christmas is when most households run warmest: heating on, oven going, room full of people.

The Lullaby Trust recommends keeping a baby's room between 16°C and 20°C. A festive sleepsuit is a layer like any other, and a heavy fleece one worn in a room at the top of that range, in a full house, is warmer than it looks in the product photograph.

Cotton and cotton blends are the sensible default for that reason. If you want the cosy look for photographs, a brushed cotton sleepsuit gives you it without fleece's heat retention.

Baby Christmas Pyjamas Sizing

Sizes are given in month bands, which describe an average baby rather than a specific one, so measure where you can. For a baby born early, or simply large or small for their age, length and weight are more reliable guides than age. Our size guide gives the measurements for exactly that.

Baby boy Christmas pajamas and baby girl Christmas pajamas run in the same size bands, and a good share of the range is unisex, which helps if you are buying before a baby arrives or shopping for twins.

Matching a Baby Into the Family Set

Baby sizes carry the same prints as the rest of the range, so a baby joins a household-wide design rather than wearing something loosely related. Our matching family Christmas pyjamas run a single print from baby sizes right through to adult, and on selected sets as far as the family dog.

Parents can match through our womens and mens collections in the same designs.