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Babies: 3 - 6 Months
Rookie Mom Question - what to sleep in tonight?
Forgive me because I am a first time mom and my own sleep preferences are different than most people....
Tonight's low outside is supposed to be 40 degrees....usually I put DD in a long sleeved onesie and a sleeveless cotton sleep sack, sometimes with socks, although usually she kicks them off. With the temp dropping tonight though I put her in a sleep and play with feet and long sleeves, a sleeveless sleep sack. My question is, if it was your LO, how would you dress them for sleep? I know it sounds weird, but my DH and I both like it cool to sleep - like meat locker cool. I don't want to chill her out since she has been coughing and sneezing a bit lately but I don't want her too hot so that it is hard to sleep.
Please don't laugh at my rookie question. 
My friend says by the third kid if they want to sleep in a diaper, one sock, and a hat and it's fine.
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Re: Rookie Mom Question - what to sleep in tonight?
Really??? Oh I feel like a bad mom....DD must be freezing!
I am so nervous about blankets, even from the waist down...DD does acrobatics in her sleep and she usually ends up the other end of the crib facing backward by morning. She'd easily get to a blanket if it was in there.
For a 40 degree night, I'd probably do PJs (what you are calling sleep n plays) and a fleece sleeveless sleep sack. I'm a southerner and 40 degrees in miserably cold to me though!
Right now, LO sleeps in PJs with a blanket over him. He does not move at all at night. Probably sometime this month we'll use sleep sacs instead of the blanket. But fleece sleep sacs and PJs (cotton or fleece depending on the weather) is what we used for DS1 all winter. When he was 1 and 2 we used two layers of PJs - one cotton, one larger sized fleece - during the winter months because he did not do sheets or blankets. Now he's in a big boy bed so we'll see if he keeps on blankets this year!
P.S. I love what your friend said about the 3rd! ha! That is why my mom said I'm so easy going. As the 3rd, I had to just go with the flow!
Man, my kid is practically naked compared to some of you! haha He was in our room all summer and we kept the AC set to 68. He slept in footed pjs, usually the terry kind. Now he's in his room with no AC and he's never in more than cotton footed pjs. Tonight it's so hot he's in a short sleeved onesie and pants with no feet.
In the winter he'll sleep in a sleep sack but I'm not sure what under it.
Me too. My kid gets burning hot and sweaty if I put him in anything more than a footed sleeper...and that's only when it's been chilly. He's usually happiest in a short sleeve onesie.
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I have the baby in a long sleeved onesie, a sleeveless cotton sleep sack and I put a crocheted blanket over him. He is a mover too, but the blanket goes with him....lol. (and I don't put it waist down, I put it neck down). He is just fine with it.
Once it starts getting colder during the day (and not just at night), I'll switch to a sleeveless fleece sleepsack.
We have a cool mist humidifier going in his room and a ceiling fan on low. I keep the kids level at 68 during the night.
DD#1 is 3! And LO#2 is on his/her way! Due Feb 26th, 2014.
BFP#1: EDD 5/7/2010 born on 5/20/2010. A little girl named Emily.
BFP#2: m/c 10/29/2012 EDD was 6/21/2012 Baby Hope was 6 weeks 3 days.
BFP#3: Twin B stopped growing at 8 weeks and 5 days. Found on 8/10/2014. EDD was 2/26/2014. Twin A is still doing great and due date is 2/26/14.