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schmoodle
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Tips to make baby's room cooler?
schmoodle
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I know optimal sleeping temp for babies, particularly to reduce SIDS risk, is 65-70 degrees. Boodle is sleeping in her room right now and our new baby monitor has a temp gauge and indicates her room is wavering between 76 and 77 degrees! As if I weren't paranoid enough about her sleeping in her own room (and we have no intention of moving her there overnight until minimum 6 months).
I have a fan running in there already (on medium - I will try it on high for her next nap but don't want to go in while she's asleep), but short of cranking the thermostat way down, is there anything else I can do? I did just turn the a/c down to 71 (we usually keep it on 75) but now that side of the house is going to be freezing downstairs, since it was comfortable at 75. Opening the window won't help when it's warmer than that outside.
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Re: Tips to make baby's room cooler?
Our kids side of the house is much warmer than ours. We have to keep their thermostat (we have 2) set to 70, while ours can stay at 72.
My husband tells me to keep their shutters closed during the day so that the sun doesn't make it warmer than it already is over there. But I like to have the natural light come in, so I ignore that : )
So no real advice...just that we have the same problem. And it makes our electric bill VERY high.
Is the sun on that side of the house right now? If so, maybe a blackout curtain? That makes a huge difference in our house. . . but our house is old and has crappy old windows that let in too much heat
Also, is the temp guage near her crib? In our (again - old) house, the temp can vary greatly in a room based on where the vent is and where the air is directed. If it's a floor vent, maybe one of those plastic covers to direct the air toward the crib more?
This is how ours is too, the main issue (besides a super steep electric bill) is that the kitchen/living room/dining room, which are on the same thermostat as the kids' rooms, is going to be freezing! Oh well. Her room is down to 74 now in the 15 minutes since I turned the A/C down so it's getting there...
Those temp gauges are always inaccurate. It needs to have THE perfect placement in the room (inside wall away from sunlight and anything else like even a light bulb).
Do you have darkening blinds in here room? That could help cool it off some, if there was less light.
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It can be, but her shades have been closed for a few days since I forgot to raise them after prior naps, so that's not the issue right now. It's just warmer over there...
Oh ours is the same way. The breakfast area is freezing. But I hate thinking about them getting too warm.
Oh, and the shades are drawn, lights off and the monitor is about 3 feet away from where she's sleeping so I don't think it's artificially high. Now down to 73 at least which is making me less nervous.
We have a similar problem. In addition to keeping the blinds closed and blackout thermal curtains closed I also run a small floor fan that I can point up toward the ceiling. I place it right in front of the AC vent on the floor and it helps to push the cold air upward into the room while the ceiling fan is running as well.
It isn't a perfect fix but it does help!
We have a fan and black out shades. Also, to keep Henry's room cooler (because it's on the top floor) we have some of the vents closed in rooms we don't use much (3 of our bathrooms, the 'formal' living room, dining room and upstairs 'den') so, that forces more cool air into his and Jack's bedrooms.
We struggle with this since we live in an older home and the ventilation system is just worn out/outdated. (Can't wait until we move!) During the summer, we try to shut any vents downstairs that we don't really need open, in hopes of forcing the cooler air upstairs. But that doesn't seem to help much since our bedrooms are 75-78 degrees by the evening, even if we set the thermostat to 70 (and then we freeze downstairs) and we have black-out shades that stay closed all the time. We finally had to put a small window a/c unit in Elizabeth's room.
This is from Australia, but I thought it was helpful.
https://www.sidsandkids.org/wp-content/uploads/Room-Temperature.pdf
I tried to dress the baby for the temperature and keep a fan on them instead of aiming for a specific range. SIDS risk is highest in the winter months probably because people overdress babies for sleep and keep the room too warm. I think that's the basis for the room temperature recommendations.
FWIW, our thermostat was never set below 78-80 degrees in the summer, and the actual temperature probably didn't go any lower than 76 (the thermostat is in the hall and sometimes the bedrooms get colder than the hall). She was in our room until 7 months old, and if the house felt warm, I would just dress her in a onesie or loose pajama pants without feet. Without a blanket, with a fan, and with her arms and feet uncovered, she never even got hot enough to sweat. When she was swaddled, we mostly used light cotton or muslin blankets. In the winter, we usually set the thermostat for 66-68 degrees and she either gets fleece pjs or cotton pjs + sleepsack.