CuddleCot - cooling for pre-term and full-term baby loss in any cot or bassinet
What is the CuddleCot?
What sets the CuddleCot apart is the experience it provides families. Parents can hold their baby or place them in any cot or bassinet using discreet, temperature-controlled cooling pads that provide true continuous cooling. Parents don’t feel rushed, and healthcare professionals don’t need to intervene or swap pads to keep the baby cool.
Cooling is delivered through a concealed pad system, allowing families to hold, cuddle, and spend time with their baby in a natural, less clinical way. Unlike alternatives, which can feel undignified, time-consuming for staff, and highly visible, the CuddleCot offers a gentle and respectful approach.
Does the CuddleCot provide real, continuous cooling?
Yes. The CuddleCot provides genuine, continuous cooling, with the temperature automatically monitored via pre-term and full-term cooling pads. This is achieved without ice packs or harmful chemicals.
As a result, families can hold their baby without worrying about temperature changes caused by body heat or feeling pressured to return them to the cot.
Where is the CuddleCot Used?
The CuddleCot is used globally across various healthcare departments, hospices, and funeral care settings that support families experiencing loss, including but not limited to:
- Labor and Delivery
- Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
- Pediatrics
- Accident and Emergency
- Children's Hospice
It is used in large, small, and rural medical centers, ensuring families everywhere have the gift of time with their baby.
What do families do with this time?
This extended time gives parents space to take photos, create memories, welcome family, receive support, and make arrangements without feeling rushed.
The flexible cooling pads can be used in any existing cot or bassinet, helping maintain a familiar and discreet environment in hospitals, hospices, or at home.
This level of bereavement care is deeply valued by grieving families and by the healthcare professionals who support them.
For children over the age of one who are too big for the standard baby cooling pad, the CuddleBlanket provides a suitable alternative.
Why is time important?
Time allows families to create precious memories, enables mothers to recover from medication side effects, make arrangements without feeling rushed, and gives family members the opportunity to visit and support parents, all while keeping their baby close by.
The time provided by the CuddleCot helps in the preservation of the precious memories associated with baby, time that parents may not otherwise have if baby is taken to a mortuary.
The CuddleCot is commonly used for 3-5 days before final goodbyes, offering families time, dignity and privacy with their baby.
Its impact is undeniable and it is in use in thousands of hospitals across the world. You can read parent stories here.
Worldwide Expertise, Local Support
While the CuddleCot started in the UK over a decade ago, it is trusted by thousands of healthcare professionals and families around the world. Used in labor and delivery, NICU, emergency departments, hospices, funeral homes, and homes, it provides discreet, uninterrupted cooling in a gentle, non-clinical way. Recognized internationally as a leading perinatal bereavement care device, the CuddleCot helps healthcare professionals support families with dignity, comfort, and a sense of familiarity.
We provide immediate dispatch from hubs across North America and Europe, with product support 365 days a year. Our dedicated teams in the US, Canada, and carefully chosen partners throughout Europe are here to support healthcare professionals, not just with the CuddleCot, but with ongoing learning and guidance. If you have questions about the CuddleCot or how we can support your bereavement care program, we’re here for you.
We believe gold-standard bereavement care isn’t just about cooling, it’s comprehensive, evidence-based support. Contact our team today at info@cuddlecot.com
Can I order a CuddleCot?
Yes, to order a CuddleCot or for more information, contact:
info@cuddlecot.com
US: 800 992 8977 UK: 08455 333561
Distribution Partners:
Germany: Transatlantic Website: | +49 (0)6081 - 943050 | info@transat.de
Netherlands: VAB Website | 036 5225555 | Info@vab.nl
France: Frima Funeraire Website | +33 (0)4 78 07 20 56 | Marine@frimaconcept.com
Australia: Parmed Website | simone@parmed.com.au
Spain: Tacklen Website | david.riu@tacklen.com
We believe that compassionate care shouldn't end after death.
That’s why we offer more than just portable continual cooling for pre- and full-term babies in any setting. We provide free, clinically-led online e-learning for healthcare professionals, access to our directory of bereavement care resources, standardisation documents, and more. Our goal is to help teams strengthen their bereavement programs and ensure every family has equal access to quality bereavement care.
You can either donate to one of the incredible baby loss charities we work with, or purchase direct.
To learn more about the incredible organizations around the world helping to ensure every bereaved family is given the choice to use a CuddleCot or CuddleBlanket visit our charities and fundraising page
How the CuddleCot works
The CuddleCot system includes a standard and premature cooling pad, and can be placed in any basket, crib or bed. The pad is connected by a specially insulated hose and is quietly cooled using the CuddleCot cooling unit.
The CuddleCot's thin, soft cooling pad is placed on top of the soft mattress which ensures the baby is fully cushioned.
The CuddleCot system comes with two sizes of cooling pads for premature and full-term babies.
Biocide, or water purification tablets like Milton, is added to the water, and the unit is easily cleaned using plastic safe cleaning products. Water is drained from the unit after each use.
The CuddleCot can also be used with the specially adapted Shnuggle Moses Basket. The basket has been specially moulded to accommodate the cooling pad and hose.
At home use
A growing number of hospitals are allowing families to take their baby home to spend time with them before the funeral. The CuddleCot is portable and simple to use with minimal professional instruction.
The CuddleCot allows parents to cool babies at home in their own cot, crib or Moses basket, and enables families to cradle their baby in their arms unlike traditional cold cots.
The gift of time can help to facilitate the transition from the anticipation of parenthood to the death of a baby. Extended time with their baby also allows parents to invite family and friends to meet their baby, fostering shared memories and surrounding themselves with support during their time of grief.
Time also allows for the creation of cherished memories, and offers opportunities to bathe, dress, and take photos of their baby for example.
The CuddleCot can also be useful in providing time for families to begin to recover from the shock of their baby's death, traumatic childbirth experiences, medication effects, or exhaustion.
Benefits of the CuddleCot
Servicing the CuddleCot
The CuddleCot™ is provided with a 12-month warranty. After that, we offer a range of enhanced service and support options for the CuddleCot.
For added peace of mind, we also offer an extended warranty. This can be taken at the point of sale or during the first year of ownership and will run seamlessly after the first 12-month warranty.
We're committed to helping you get the most from these important resources and help ensure your CuddleCot is always ready for use when you need it.
An annual service is recommended and, as the innovators of the CuddleCot, we have many years and much experience in its upkeep and have all the expertise, tools and experience to keep this asset in the best working condition.
Shop CuddleCot Spares
You can purchase CuddleCot Spares in our online shop.
For prof orma invoices, please email info@cuddlecot.com
CuddleCot Testimonials
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Is there any guidance on temperature and how long babies can be kept after loss, does the guidance change with baby weight?
