Keeping the cot warm...

Hi OP. I used one on those ones that you snapped the thing inside. You can buy them at highpoint. Then when I got up to feed I would put it in the cot. So it was warm when I put her back in.

Ive never worried about keeping it warm for them..... Just fed, changed and put back to bed :-)

With the wheatpack, you could even pop it in the microwave with a cup of water & some lavender oil in it to give it a slight scent to help bub sleep easier :) IIRC you're supposed to heat them with water in the microwave anyway...


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Ubba... I had been doing that but he wakes now as soon as he goes back in so I need to try something!

Lilima - what sort of shop is it at Knifepoint?

Teni - all sounds a bit technical with the lavender oil... But where do I find a wheat one anyway? Chemist?

Target has them, chemist, health food store.
How did last night go?


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The wheat ones are fabulous, unlike a hot water bottle, they don't go stone cold once the heat goes away. I find if I have one in bed, they stay at my temperature once they lose their heat.
I made my own recently from organic wheat I bought at a craft store.

Our dd is sleeping on a fleece blanket and I use a wheat heat pack to warm her bed, she was waking everytime I put her down and this has solved the problem.

It is just one of those shops that is in the centre of the isle.
Or you can get them online.
Do you want a lend of mine?

Thanks lilima - everyone is so generous at the moment! - I'm going to look online and get one of my own I reckon.

Sammie - thanks for asking, it was another bad one... Same thing... Up to settle and back into an ice cold cot. I ended up bringing him into bed for a quick feed (which I'm trying not to do!) on the thought that a bit of warm milk might help. Then while he was still awake and happy I put him into the cot... Hoping it wouldn't be such a shock if he was awake and he could warm it up while going off to sleep. Took an hour or so... And then DD woke him at 7am so he's a bit tired and grumpy!

Sigh. The sheets are dry so they will go on today... And I'm debating venturing out to get a wheat pack. We'll see how I go!

hun you can get those heatpacks that lilma was talking about at greensy at the moment. In the middle of the shopping centre isle near colorada , just jeans etc. Its a shop that sells a bit of everything. i looked down the otherday and saw the stall holder with one of those things on her neck. I used to have one and they used to drive me bonkers as you have to boil them to get them back to liquid so they will heat again. too hard for me lol.

i just used to bring boof wrapped up in his blanket cot and put him back to sleep wrapped still so he wouldnt even feel his bed was cold. HTH and hang in there

We went camping for Easter when miss A was 4 weeks old, it was Freezing and the night feed was horrid, putting her down made her wake instantly, so I rubbed the bit that her head went down on really really fast (friction heat) and it helped a bit, maybe try this until you have a heat pack?
Hope u have a better night tonight.



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I do a heat pack (wheat), chuck it in the microwave for 1 minute.

found this thread when looking for a microwave dessert recipe. i know you are dealing with same stuff again OP. gave me a deja vu feeling

HotI - I just reread it all, we are in the exact same situation, similar age, cold cot, bah. I've had the humidifier running the last few nights for his cough and its making the room nice and warm. But he still wakes up!!!

It's scary how similar they are with sleeping... Does this mean I am heading for sleep school again???

Is the problem bubs getting cold and waking or the cot itself needing a hot water bottle type of solution to keep it physically warm to put him into it?

If it is the former, you may want to try having more blankets *under* him. If you re sleeping on a a raised surface - like a slat bed/cot, you are going to get better heat retention if you have as many layers under you are over you.
We have a woolen blanket folded up and laid across the slats of the cot base, under the mattress, then another on top of the mattress, then the mattress protector, 2 fitted flannelette sheets and then the blankets on top, as well as the layers we would dress DD1 in (she was a blanket kicker-offerer).
This with a hot water bottle before her feed-to-sleep-feed, which I took out when I put her down, solved our issues with the cold waking thing. If it were particularly cold, I would re-do the hot water bottle and put it in for about 20 mins before I went to bed as well.
Hope some of that was helpful... or if not, carry on! LOL

Thanks Lime, I hadn't thought about him getting cold from underneath. I've got a mattress protector, woollen underlay and flannel sheets, do you think that sounds like enough? Guess I could always try a blanket between the cot and mattress., see if it helps.

But I think the main problem is cold cot upon laying bubs down.

do you have floorboards?? On the super cold nights i have even taken to throwing a doona under the cot on the floor to stop wind and cold from seeping up through the floorboards etc.

I used to sleep ds on a woollen blanket, a soft merino one (over the sheets) and it never got that cold feeling to touch. I agree you need as many layers under as over. I also found checking for draughts helped a lot and these days we leave the heating on low all night because the kids always kick off the blankets. It's actually helped them sleep in longer (thank god!) although we're still up at 6 but anything beats 5am.