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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Love the Patagonia Baby Down Sweaters.  Have them in sizes 12 months thru 5T for my girls!   Highly recommend buying them on sale.  Just got one in last season's color for 50% off by asking at the Patagonia store.  Can also find on sale sometimes at Backcountry.com.  [/quote]

I grew up in Chicago and I don't think the baby down sweater will cut it in Chicago in the winter.  This is more expensive but it worked well during the polar vortex last winter.

http://www.patagonia.com/us/product/baby-snow-pile-jacket?p=61101-0

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A Chicago mom of a one-year old DD, who also used to live in DC, here, and I just happened to have bought DD's winter gear this weekend  :)   I went to the Patagonia in Lincoln Park, and the very helpful salesperson I spoke with highly recommended the down sweater -- even though I told him that DD and I commute by bus to her nanny share half the month.  (The other jacket linked to above only comes in 2T and up, but the salesperson recommended the down sweater over it anyways even had it been available in DD's size.)  He said that the down sweater is truly very warm, and because it is that flat, non-puffy sort of down, it can work in the carseat and a carrier.  In the stroller, the down sweater, coupled with a bunting bag (like the BundleMe) will be perfect -- and he actually thought that their warmer puffier down jacket (a third option) would be over-kill in a stroller with the BundleMe.  I  tried DD out in the carrier and the down sweater in the store, and it was comfortable.   My DD is small (just under 19 pounds at a year), but I still bought the 18 month size instead of the 12 -- it was a bit big, but not ridiculously so.

Please, though, do not only buy her a fleece.  That is not sufficient!  Last winter there were whole week-long periods where it did not even get into the 20's!!!  Winters here are simply a whole different ballgame from DC.  A fleece (in addition to a winter jacket) is a worthwhile purchase, though.  You will get plenty of use out of it in the next two months and also at the end of winter, which, ya know, is March - May -- UGH![/quote]

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