What temperature is your baby's room? 20 degrees or higher?
I know the recommendation is 16-20 degrees but I was wondering if you had it any warmer than that? I have been staying at my mum's place for a few days and she put a small electric heater in the room with us on low. It was about 21-22 degrees and bubs slept so much better compared with us at home where we make it 20 degrees. 20 degrees seems cold!
It has been majorly cold here (-4) so it's been difficult to keep the room above 18. But he does sleep really well at that temperature......... ( My DH just said, "What did the eskimos used to do?" Hardy har har).
our house seems to stay at around 16 over night but the ducted heating is programed to come on if it goes below 15, which it hasnt so far, the house seems to retain the heat from having heater on during the day. we havent had any issues so far iwht DD waking cos it;s cold
Um well we dont ourselves leave a heater going in Jesse's room, but lately most nights it gets down to about 11-13 degrees. But he currently has 2 pairs of flannelette pjs, 2.5 tog grobag, 2 blankets and a doona on.
During summer months it can be quite warm though.
DDs room is generally between 20 and 21 degrees and she sleeps well with this a wondersuit, a sheet and blanket plus a wrap. We have a colum heater on very low overnight. We did have it warmer up until a few weeks ago as we think it was too warm. It has been as low as 19 degrees and she still slept well.
I have no idea what temp DD's room is but at the moment (because it is so cold at night!) we have the ducted heating programmed to maintain about 15 degrees (I think) and it is STILL icey cold IMO! She wears PJ's, a sleeping bag (one from Harris Scarfe) and I usually pop a couple of bunny rugs over her as well. She sleeps no better or worse than during the day. If she gets too hot she wakes up crying.
Around 18 usually. She wakes up if it gets above 19 or below 15 so i try to keep it cool in there. She wears a long-sleeved bodysuit (vest) and pyjamas and has a 4-tog duvet. I always check in on her before i go to bed and make sure she's covered up (she's wriggly) and warm enough. I can't sleep in a warm room either, maybe it's hereditary...?
15 is ICY! I don't know about over in Aus but in the UK if office or school room temperatures can't be kept above 16 the law says we can go home!
Ashtons room would be alot less than 20 degrees. Maybe around 14 in the middle of the night, and I say 14 cause that is what our lounge-room will get down too if we don't have the heater on, and our lounge-room cops the afternoon sun (if any). We dont' have central heating and only have 1 small column heater that does what ever room we are in at the time, usually the lounge, and it is turned off at night.
To compensate he goes to bed in his sleeping bag for extra warmth.
Ours is whatever the ambient temprature is.
Yasin gets shocking Croup and Imran gets it too but not so badly and the peadiatrician at the hospital advised us not to heat his room because it makes croup worse. If he's rugged up in his PJ's and under the doona but breathing cold air the cold air is better for him.
We co-sleep so if we're comfy and cozy then we know the bubbas are too.
Just t clarify - that is 15 OVERNIGHT - and it is a heck of a lot warmer than the freezing temps outside!!! We prefer to rug DD up as opposed to using heating too. Besides, the sleeping bag keeps her warm when we're up for the midnight feed!
Oh no MG i wasn't being critical - DD's room gets down to 14 sometimes, that's when she wakes up because her wee feet (which she refuses to keep under wraps and will remove a sleeping bag in order to free!) get cold.
I know bubs is warm enough, it just makes me think of all the times i've been stood shivering, semi-naked hugging DD if she wakes crying in her freezing room. LOL. I prefer it in my (freezing too) room under my big thick goose-down duvet... mmmmm cosy. In fact if it's really cold, that's where DD ends up too
Isabelles room is about 16-18 overnight - our ducted heating comes on if it drops below aroud 14, but she has a oil filled heater on medium. She wears a S/S jumpsuit, a L/S jumpsuit, a flannel wrap and a polar fleece blanket... sounds like too little although she doesnt wake up in the night cold - although her hands get cold because she hates them wrapped and pulls them out. Her tummy is always very warm when she gets up for a feed.
My daughter wishes she was living at the the South or North Pole. She loves cold. The colder the better. She then will snuggle with a big doona. She absolutely hates wearing jumpers too. The most Ive ever been able to get on her is a singlet and long sleeve shirt.
I try to keep DS' room 16-18.
But overnight in winter I dress him for 15, JIC, as he likes to be on the warmer side, so he'll wear a singlet, LS bodysuit, pair of pjs and a 2.5tog grobag.
We;ve got one of those ceramic heaters in DS room it turns on when the room temp gets below a set temp, we usually have it set at about 25 but he hates the cold.
i have no idea what the temp in DS room would be. With out the column heater on all night the temp would be well below 10. I leave the column heater on high all night and he sleeps in his track pants, long sleeved top, polar fleece sleeping bag and mink blanket, and sometimes an extra blanket. If we don't put the heater on all night he wakes up lots.
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What temperature is your baby's room? 20 degrees or higher?
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