caro: i agree the recommendations are way out of whack. Mason is a very cold boy and MUST be very hot at all times. Drives me nuts.
So i will put some socks/mittens on his hands, and a small blanket tucked under the bassinette mattress and I will see how I go. I can tell by touching his skin when I change his nappy if he is hot enough or not.
Until lately, we never used a blanket or sheet with Jesse in his grobags as he would pull them over his head. He's now stopped doing it and as its super cold here i put one on him before i go to bed (thats on top of a 2.5 tog, coverall bodysuit & flannel PJs and its not even winter yet!!), but still make sure its all tucked un at the foot of the bed and sides. Of a morning our room temp is saying 15 degrees!
With most sleeping bags (grobags) they recommend you dont use blankets but use layers. So if he has a tendancy to pull them over his head like Jesse use to, if layer, singlet, long sleeve body suit, flanell pjs etc.. but at 1 month old i think youll be right.
Last edited by ShootingStar; May 25th, 2007 at 07:50 PM.
Emelia sleeps in a sleeping bag, ones just from big w and kmart and then i tuck her in with a thin blanket then her mink cot blanket..i make sure its tucked in good so she cant lift them over her head. i have one that has a slit near the legs so it can be used in the car its great!!!
Caro, I thought oil column heaters used a lot of power? not sure how I figured that, but I was rationing ours and using the split air con of the coonara instead.
Is there somewhere online I can look up how much energy they use, or do you think th power company would know if I rang them?
he had a singlet which buttons up between the legs (bodysuit), thick polar fleece all in one, sleeping bag, and a thick blanket on the top.
Tonight I am gunna put socks on him, and put another thick blanket on the top (and 2 pairs of socks on his hands)
BUT, in saying this....he didnt cry all night. He just whinged and was wide awake. So maybe it was new surroundings more so than being unwrapped or cold?
nah he definitely wasnt overly warm..his skin wasnt as hot to touch as normal. He likes to be really hot when he is sleeping.
We just bought a new basinette as he has been sleeping in a cocoon up until now. So it was his firt night in there although he had been sleeping in there during the day yesterday.
The sleeping bag I used was a polar fleece cheap one. I just wanted to try him in it.
I thought he liked being wrapped but I thought maybe all the moaning and groaning could have been him trying to escape his arms. When he gets his arms out, he screams till you re-wrap him, then he tries to escape again!
yes maybe change only one thing at a time, so you can pinpoint what's upsetting him. Maybe wrap him for the next few nights in the new bassinet, and if that's going well, then try the sleeping bag.
ATM Archie wears singlet, thin long sleeved top, trackie pants, socks and a thick polar fleece sleeping bag during the day and a mink blanket at night, it is bloody cold in our house though! We just have the cheapie sleeping bags from Target paid $13 for the first one and bought another one today for $15, bargain, i've been raving about hem all week to anyone who'll listen!
I was told that the way to tell if your baby is too hot is that the back of their necks will be clammy.. I often feel the back of her neck (I make sure my hands are nice and warm)and know that in summer when the room showed 28 degrees at night she was definitely clammy - don't know what is worse, cooling them down or keeping them warm all night!!!
I think the worst is when it starts out fairly warm then cools significantly overnight. You want to make sure they're warm for the wee hours of the morning, but not too hot in the evening when it's still warmish.
Charlie sleeps through the night and so I'm sometimes rugging him up (for the colder hours) then turning his fan on facing the corner of the room, and putting it on timer to turn off by midnight.
DH laughs at my 'covering all bases' but what else do you do? Leave them to swelter, then freeze?
^Ugh Sushee I hear you on that one....until about a week ago it was still incredibly warm here at 7ish when Toby goes to bed. But he'd wake up at 2am and he was freezing. So difficult to keep them comfortable....although he's waking at night so I can adjust his clothing if I need to. I was doing the rug-em-up and put the fan on trick as well, my dh also thought I was a bit mad
At the moment he's sleeping in a singlet, bonds wondersuit and a polar fleece sleeping bag. Usually I throw a pair of tracksuit pants on at 2am to prepare for the before dawn cold snap. He's not using a blanket atm but we may need one soon.
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