dressing baby for bed

LittleDuckie2013

I don't know why but dressing my LO for bedtime is so confusing for me. Im never sure if im dressing her to warmly or if she's going to be to cold. I was dressing her in a onesie and then putting her in a sleep pod but she doesn't seem to like the sleep pod and grunts all night trying to get her hands out.

I was going to try to have her in a sleep gown tonight. I keep my house at 72 degrees.

 should I put a onesie under the sleep gown?

 I know they say you should put them in one layer more then you but i sleep in a t-shirt and underwear with a sheet that I toss on and off all night.

smellychelly25

I have a hot baby. He is uauly in a diaper wrapped in a blankey.

jeska511

A onesie AND a gown in a 72 degree house is too many layers and she wull get too hot. My house is 78 rught now due to it being in the 100s outside and i had to undress her to keep her bidy temp at a normal temp. For 72 i would do a onesie with a light blanket over her bottom half or a thin gown. If you stay confused, do trial and error and take her temp at night while sleeping with each different outfit

duffmaker

We keep our house at 70-74 and S sleeps in just a gown, most nights with socks on and some nights I will throw one of the a+a blankets on him or sometimes swaddle if he's extra cranky but most times I just wrap it really tight under his armpits because he likes his arms free.

jeska511

Excuse the mistypes mobile bumping. My LO also sleeps in a RnP i should mention

LeggyNic

We keep our house 72-74 and DD is in a short sleeve onesie and swaddled in a light flannel blanket. She's in her crib and her room is one of the cooler ones in the house.

BbyCarter13

I usually start with just a onesie. I figure that I can always put her in a sleeper or wrap her in a blanket if she's cold when we wake up for the first motn feeding.

We keep the room 7678 with 2 ceiling fans going.

CindyRelluh

Jack is like a little heater! If we put him in a sleeper, plus swaddle him, we can't even put another blanket on. I like to prop him on his side, because he's comfy that way, so I put him in a onesie, then swaddle, then blanket on top. We keep it around 70 here thanks to my hormones and it being Georgia.

jefk

sctiger52408:

I think that sounds too hot. My LO sleeps in a onesie and a Swaddle Me blanket and we keep the house a little cooler than you do.

Same here.  We keep the a/c at 74 at night, but DD's room gets cool (the a/c vent is over the foot of her crib), so we do a long-sleeve onesie or side-snap shirt and a SwaddleMe. 

iggles09

Ive had to do a lot of trial an error. Now that she is sleeping in her crib, I am dressing her warmer bc the vent blows very cold on her. We keep it 74-75 at night with a fan going. 

When the ac is running her poor little hands/arms get cold in just a onsie and AA blanket. Last night I had her in a sleeper gown plus AA blanket. She was warm when the AC wasn't actively running but perfect when it was. We will keep playing with it. GL and just keep trying different outfits 

punky917

We keep our house at 73 degrees at night because the upstairs is much hotter than the rest of the house. LO is in her onesie and swaddler and seems to do ok.

musicalsilver

We keep our house at 72 as well, and have a ceiling fan going in our bedroom.  LO wears either footed PJs or a long sleeved onsie with a sleep sack, depending on what's clean.

skio

We keep the house at about 72 at night, too. I'm in capris and a t shirt and sleep with just a sheet on. DD is in a l/a onesie, halo swaddle sack, and a light receiving blanket over her. She's comfy.

Feel baby's head for sweat and arms for coldness. If arms are warm [hands will usually be a little chilly because their circulation is still not great] and they're not sweating, they're good.

BLT20051

clizh:

We keep our house at 7074 and S sleeps in just a gown, most nights with socks on and some nights I will throw one of the aa blankets on him or sometimes swaddle if he's extra cranky but most times I just wrap it really tight under his armpits because he likes his arms free.

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Feel baby's head for sweat and arms for coldness. If arms are warm [hands will usually be a little chilly because their circulation is still not great] and they're not sweating, they're good.

This is good to know. I was worried my DD  felt too hot last night but she wasn't sweating so I now I think I finally hit the right combo of clothing. 

GL OP. Trial and error for sure! 

nikel13

Honestly, Lily sweats so bad in her sleep that we leave her in a diaper.

Mufflerlove

I'm not sure of the temperature of our bedroom but we have a/c plus two fans. I sleep in a t shirt and shorts plus a comforter. We put Penelope in a footed sleeper and a sleep sack. Her hands are usually cold but she has never been sweaty. Hopefully she's not too cold.

daffy2k

Our house is a little cooler (generally 68-70... We are in west-central Alberta and in the mountains, no great summer weather here!) LO sleeps in her crib usually wearing a footed sleeper and swaddled in a muslin AA blanket under the arms (she always breaks them free anyways).  When the heat wave hit here a couple weeks ago the house was about 77-78 at night.  She slept in just a diaper since any more clothing and she was just too hot.