Can anyone help a UK mum?

Hi I'm from the UK and was just after some help from some NZ mums..I saw an article about mattress wrapping on the net ( putting a special wrap over the babies mattress before the sheets etc) and in the article they claim that the reason cot death has dropped so dramatically in NZ is because so many mums have wrapped their baby's mattress.
Of course I thought great I'll get one for my baby,but when I have looked on any NZ websites there is no mention of mums doing this,just following the same rules as we do here e.g avoid smoking round baby, put baby on back etc etc.... So can anyone tell me is this common practise in NZ or someone exagerating their product ...Thanks for your time x

I never followed this. Ours was a brand new mattress and we aired it for months before Daniel was born so I didn't feel the need to wrap it.

Plus I wouldn't want to sleep on some plastic cover so I didn't expect my bubba to. And it seemed to contradict the whole "natural fibre only" thing when it came to bedding.

I never had one either.. we aired Kylahs mattress for months too. I bought it when i was like 17 weeks lol.

I've read a pamphlet published by them and it so pissed me off.
'Using our mattress cover will definitely prevent SIDS' and so on.
They also did comparisons between 'single mums' and mums with more than 1 child

I think that the statement that using that cover will definitely prevent SIDS is flawed. I dont think that there is enough evidence to prove that it is the only contributing factor to the low SIDS rate in NZ.
For us, we used one on the bassinett mattress as it was second hand but opted not to use it on the cot mattress as it was brand new. I didnt like it at all as it was crinkly and seemed uncomfortable.
Like Peanut said, we too use a sound and movement monitor which is the best thing we bought. Otherwise, I dont think that we would sleep at all!

We used one for Ella when she was a newborn in her bassinett but don't bother for her cot. I was worried too that it would be uncomfortable to sleep on, but once I had woollen mattress proctector over the top, plus a sheet you couldn't really feel it.

I never used one on the cot or bassinette ... but like Sheza said, its a personal choice.

In our reproduction and development papers at uni, they say that the SIDS rate in NZ dropped dramatically once they started the campaign to get babies sleeping on their back. I would suggest that THAT is the main reason for the low SIDS rate. My med student friend says that most older Drs feel awful because they used to recommend babies sleep on their tummies, but now they know that they are responsible for losing thousands of little lives because they gave the wrong advice :S How awful would that feel.

I've never used one, but it's a personal choice. We had a new mattress though, so it had never been shared with another baby or anything (don't know if that matters).

Edited by Janey77

I wrapped my baby's mattress for a few months once she went into a cot. Prior to that it was a brand new bassinette mattress and already had a protective layer on it.

I found she didn't sleep that well on it so I removed it when she was around 8 months old and had a noticeable improvement in her sleep. If wrapping in plastic you need to make sure you use the right underblankets and everything needs to be natural fibres.

We didn't get one because like Stacey said I didn't want Rowan sleeping on plastic - especially in summer. We got a second hand cot and second hand mattress - although the person before us had used the Dr Sprott cover so it was like new.

But we did have a sound and movement monitor which I would recommend in an instant to anyone. Ours is a tommee tippee one but basically the same as an Angelcare.