Is 78 degrees too hot?

jilicious · August 2010

We swaddle using Aden and Anais for Target blankets, and have her in a thin nightgown, is this too much?

Our electric is already over 300 a month so I really don't think lowering it is an option. Should she be swaddled in just her diaper?

acaudill042106 · August 2010

78 is HOT for indoors...for us anyway. I don't keep it higher than 72...and thats even in winter.

schnappycat · August 2010

We keep DD's room at the recced 68-72 degrees and have a fan blowing. She is swaddled in a onesie and the Miracle Blanket. I"m probably freezing her, but I'm very paranoid about overheating.

kwinters87 · August 2010

We have DD's room around 78 (we'd go broke if we kept it cooler) but we have the ceiling fan going.

DD never liked being swaddled so usually she is in a thin gown or just a diaper.

lil_rhody · August 2010

It's over 80 here regularly. My guy sleeps in just a diaper. I would leave off the nightgown and see how your LO does.

norman25 · August 2010

DS sleeps in his diaper when it gets that hot in our house. We don't use A/C so he quite frequently sleeps naked. I check his feet in the middle of the night to make sure it hasn't gotten too cold, which it never does.

jilicious · August 2010

thanks ladies, she's been waking up and not sleeping quite as well, so I think that might be why.

broomy · August 2010

We keep the room at 72-73. DS sleeps in a onesie with cotton pants (no socks, no swaddle, no blankets).

I would remove either the swaddle or the nightgown or both if it were 78 degrees. Maybe just put her in a onesie or just her diaper? Or you could put a fan in the room/use a ceiling fan.

Also: Aden and Anais makes blankets for Target??? I must find these....

jilicious · August 2010

broomhead78:

We keep the room at 72-73. DS sleeps in a onesie with cotton pants (no socks, no swaddle, no blankets).

I would remove either the swaddle or the nightgown or both if it were 78 degrees. Maybe just put her in a onesie or just her diaper? Or you could put a fan in the room/use a ceiling fan.

Also: Aden and Anais makes blankets for Target??? I must find these....

We're terrified to wean her from the swaddle! Not sure how to do that.

Stratton28 · August 2010

We can't afford to keep the a/c on all the time so oftentimes it's been 85 degrees. It sucks, but it's just been a TERRIBLE summer. Those nights I just put her in the onesie. I stopped swaddling all of a sudden one night and she was fine