sleep temp questions

FrankieandTyler

so up until now, DS and I have been co sleeping. we're no longer going to do this if mommy can help it. but i'm having trouble deciding what to dress him in once he's in his own room and his own bed.

right now DS will sleep with a long sleeve onesie and pj bottoms. i've used a cover on him for months now (gasp!) and our bedroom temperature is usually 73.

his nursery is a little colder and he won't have me for the extra body heat. i'm going to phase out the cover once he's in his own bed.

what is the temp or your lo's room and what do you dress him/her in?

LnR70707

Nursery is between 65-72 (we have a space heater in there but obviously the outside temp and temp of the rest of house affect it too).  We put him in a onesie, a footed sleeper and depending on how cold it is outside, a cotton sleepsack or a fleece sleepsack (if it is really cold we use a fleece sack with arms).

Nurse Lisa

Thermostat is at 71 or 72. E sleeps in fleece pjs and a fleece sleepsack. We're in Chicago. Once next month rolls around it will probably be cotton pjs and fleece sleepsack.

dairygirl19

Her room is anywhere between 69-71.

I dress her in a short sleeved onesie and a fleece sleeper with a sleeveless sleepsack over it. Some nights if her room is warm (it gets a lot of natural light..I skip the sleep sack).

Otherwise I do a long sleeved onesie over a lighter sleeper/cotton pjs/sweats type outfit and a regular sleep sack.

She seems plenty warm.

IlliniQT

Our LO rolls too much for a sleep sack, he gets all tangled.  We do cotton/fleece pjs depending on the temp outside (we're having a very mild chicago winter) and he has an oil heater to keep his room about 74 degrees.

mjune3881

In Chicago ... Thermostat is at 64.  Amelia sleeps in a ls onesie, fleese pjs, swaddle (arms out), fleece sleepsack (arms in).  If that makes sense ...

tokenhoser

We let it get down to about 65 overnight. He wears fleece fuzzy footy pj's and a 2.5 tog sleep sack. I love the warm sleep sack - I got it from Winners for $20.

ETA: My LO rolls, crawls, and unfortunately stands no problem in the sleep sack. No problems whatsoever.

suprastar333

Room temp. is 68'F.  For clothes: a long sleeve nighty (no feet, just like a long sleeve t-shirt but with mittens to keep faces scratch-free), and a (Red Castle brand) sleep sack without sleeves.  I love Red Castle!  They are the nicest.  I use the TOG 2 in winter and the TOG 0.5 in summer.

smitt2619

We have the house set at 69.  LO's room usually seems a bit warmer, but he also has a small fan going (SIDS precaution and white noise).  He sleeps in a onsie, footed sleeper, and fleece Halo sleepsack.  The sleepsack is genius because he cant kick it off like he would with regular blankets, plus it's safer too.   

jesstellina

DD either sleeps in a fleece sleep sack with socks and sometimes a onesie, or a cotton or fleece sleeper. The house is at 72 overnight, but her room stays warmer than that.

MissManda

Nursery is between 68-70. DS sleeps in a fleece footed sleeper, and I cover him with a light flannel blanket. If it is cooler than 68, we have a space heater that you can set the air temp on and it will turn itself off when it hits that.

Dani0701

Babies rooms should be on the cooler side.  Between 65-73 degrees is ideal.  B's room is kept at around 70/72 degrees.  I put in  long sleeve feety pajamas and a long sleeve fleece sleep sack.

fancynewbeesly

Our daughter is literally a furnace--and her room is one as well! We keep the door closed to her room. But because her room is in the center of the house, with the door closed and the heat on--it can get REALLY warm in there. Luckily her room is in a separate zone, and we are able to keep it at 61-63 degrees (when you walk into the room it feels like 70). She sleeps in just a blanket sleeper. 

HJOHNSTON411

As PP said, I heard it was better for a baby's room to be on the cooler side.  Dr. Sears explained that, above 70 degrees (in the winter), a room can easily get drier than the Sahara.  Makes sense because when our heat runs too much I always wake up with a dry throat and feeling kind of dehydrated and icky.  I do live in the South though:) 

So, our thermostat is on 67 or 68 at night.  His room is a warmer room upstairs, so I'd so that it stays closer to 69 or 70 in his room unless the heat doesn't come on.  I keep a small fan on, too.  He wears cotton footed pjs and a Velboa (kind of in between fleece and cotton) sleeveless Halo sleepsack.  If anything, I worry about him being too warm.  

Snapdragon750

I'll be in the minority here, our thermostat is at 68 and LO sleeps in nothing but cotton PJs on above-freezing nights, cotton PJs and cotton sleepsack on colder nights, and cotton PJs and fleece sleepsack on very cold nights.  But this is because I have a baby who is always hot.  In the summer she would sweat in nothing but her diaper and a swaddler, and every morning when I get her from her crib (no matter how lightly she was dressed), her cheeks are hot and rosy and her back is a little sweaty.  I don't know what her deal is!  But every time I'm afraid I'm not dressing her warmly enough, I remind myself that overheating is a SIDS risk and being a little cool is not.