Modern mattresses and bedclothes trap the heat that the body gives off as its core temperature drops each night.

NEWYORKER: Up All Night

Service needs work: A request for crib bedclothes was met with repeated frustration and false assurances that they were on their way.

FORBES: Head 2 Head

Babies who are unwell need fewer, not more bedclothes.

BBC: Babies shouldn't be too hot

The baby had been either murdered or killed accidentally after being snatched from his crib and, in the dark, still in bedclothes, carried out a window of the second-story nursery and down a makeshift ladder to the ground while the nurse and mother were occupied in their ordinary evening activities in another part of the house.

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