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hey guys, i am gunna trial Mason in a sleeping bag instead of wrapping.
I think a lot of his whinging is to do with trying to get his arms to escape the wrap!
So how do I keep a blanket on him if he is in the sleeping bag? I am worried he will pick the blanket up with his hands and put it on his face.
Any ideas?
Hey Danni, you don't use a blanket and a sleeping bag together, its one or the other.
a lot of milos sleeping fights were to do with not liking his arms wrapped. It took a few days for him to get used to the sleeping bag too.
How many lbs is Mason now?
Danni I would tuck my boys in with a sheet and thin blanket when I was using a sleeping bag. That way they can't pull it over their face.
ray: will talk on msn :)
Sammi: how do you tuck the sheet and blanket? under the basinette mattress?
Sleeping bags are great, I used one for my daughter last winter. I dressed her as normal and treated the sleeping bag as one blanket than added layers of sheets/thin blankets according to the weather. Just tuck the blankets under the cot mattress and you shouldn't have any probs.
Danni,
I don't use a blanket with a sleeping bag. I have three sleeping bags at any one time of different TOGs and use them accordingly, and Charlie has never been too cold. When the temp is going down to single digits, I will put him in socks, a singlet and a wondersuit, and then into a 2.5TOG sleeping bag, and he stays snuggly warm all night.
He's a big of a wriggler so blankets never worked with him, and he hated being wrapped. He loved the sleeping bags and still uses them today. In fact I just went out yesterday and bought the next size up.
sushee, do you have any small 2.5 togs you dont need anymore? i cant afford new ones, but was aboout to post a wanted post :)
I also use a sleeping bag as one layer of bedding, then cover with a sheet and another blanket...it seems to work for us... :) I have been using sleeping bags for Riley since he was only a couple of months old, he hated being wrapped and kicked the sheets off too... ;)
Danni,
I'll go look. I think I might have given my littlest ones away as part of a box of all his old clothes, but I could be wrong. I know I have the next size up though, the 6mths - 18 months but probably a little too big for itty bitty beautiful Mason.
I'll check Charlie's 'old clothes' boxes and will get back to you.
thanks darling :)
DS has sleeping bag and blankets (tucked in on one side) - if I need pyjamas and a 4-tog duvet, why should he be OK with only 2.5 togs? DS is good with blankets though, I go to bed and see him with his hands holding the blankets but some nights he has brought the blanket up to his face and pushed it away again (he does this in my bed too; I watch him pull a cover over to him then push it away). As he snores and talks in his sleep I don't worry unless he goes silent.
Ryn,
I know when I was in the UK it got waaaay colder than it is here, so I get you needing a 4 TOG duvet. Mind you, I sleep under a medium weight wool doona with only a singlet and knickers even in the dead of winter here, so Charlie, with his wondersuit and 2.5 TOG sleeping bag is more than warm enough for Perth weather.
Danni, I have got 8 boxes of clothes to go through. This might take a while.
thats ok, I'm in no huge rush. Are you selling his clothes by any chance?
I suppose I was going to get round to it eventually, Danni, Lol! Before this, I was giving them away to a friend of my sister, but she ended up with a 10 punder, so her son now wears the same size as Charlie and I don't have anyone to hand down to.
I know I had some nice Pumpkin Patch and stuff, I'll have a squizz when I go through the boxes and I'll PM you if there's anything you might like.
ok that would be great! I really need jumpers/jackets in size 000 :)
Okay, I'm onto it! Lol!
I use sleeping bags for Chelsea, just Target brand. We use sheets,1 summer and 2 thin winter blankets, and she still gets cold, so now added socks to her wonder suit/singlet/sleeping bag clothing for bed!!
Caro, I use Grobags too. Exxy but I do like them. I had two when C was a newborn, 3 for 6 - 18 months, and I'll probably have 3 for the next size up too, just in different TOGs. I don't go by the recommendations on the back either, just use common sense.
I use them every single day so I can't complain about the cost, I guess, if it's working. It's a sure fire way of getting Charlie to stop charging around and to settle for the night. I put it on him and instantaneously he calms down, knowing bed time's round the corner. Plus I got the 2.5 TOG in the one that takes a five point harness, so if I take DH into work in the morning, I don't even have to get him out of the bag to put him in the carseat!
Danni... have you got your $4,100 maternal payment yet??? You could buy a few sleeping bags & clothes with that! ;)
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.
24 degrees! that would cost a fortune in energy. We struggle here to keep the temp at 20
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!!!
Yeh we couldnt really afford that either.. just go with layers :)
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?
Mason didnt go too well last night. I dont know if it was the new basinette or not being wrapped.
I put socks on his hands but they were still cold, so I might need to put two pairs tonight.
All brand new houses which are built must have ducted heating installed
It probably was not being wrapped Danni. It takes the wee little ones some time to get used to that.
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! :rolleyes:
Danni,
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.
good idea sush, thanks
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!!!
Agreed iberru.
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 :lol:
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.
ok!! update time :D
The last 2 nights have been perfect! Mason loves not being wrapped and so do we in the weeeeee hours of the morning :D
He definitely needs the two pairs of wooly socks on his hands though. YAY for no more wrapping and escapees ;)