Temperature of your house

camillaandcarson · June 2016

What temp do you keep it for baby?

What do you dress baby in at this temp during day and night?

Merinmac · June 2016

My thermostat is set at 72, but I live in Texas so during the day it can get up to 77 or 78 inside. LO mostly wears just a onesie. If I notice her getting sweaty, I'll let her be in just a diaper or a little sundress. Swaddles during the day are usually diaper-only underneath. During the night, she wears a onesie under her swaddle since our bedroom cools down a lot. I'm always worried about her being too hot, but as long as her hands and feet are cool and she's not sweaty, I think she's ok. Taking her outside is another story!

dsmith211 · June 2016

We're in Florida so it's obnoxious outside, but we keep it at 76 during the day and 74 at night. We usually keep LO in a onesie during the day and a sleeper at night without a blanket or a onesie with a light swaddle and he doesn't seem uncomfortable.

amberraysofdawn · June 2016

Another Texan here. We keep the thermostat set at 74 usually. I mostly keep LO in a onesie. What she wears at night depends on what room we are in...right now I feel like the living room keeps a more even temp than the rest of the house, so I've mostly been crashing on the couch with the pnp pulled up next to me. She usually just wears a onesie or a light sleep sack in there without any problems (A/C is on, but I leave the ceiling fan turned off). Her bedroom is really warm/stuffy with the fan turned off, but cold with it turned on the lightest setting. If we stay in there she wears a slightly warmer sleep sack while in her crib (with the fan on - I'm more worried about the heat than the cold right now).

kbrands7 · June 2016

Ours is anywhere from 71 to 76 during warm months. During the day when it's warmer, he wears a onesie or shorts-romper; at night when it's cooler he wears a cotton sleeper (no swaddle or blanket anymore).

MsIan · June 2016

dsmith211 said:

We're in Florida so it's obnoxious outside, but we keep it at 76 during the day and 74 at night. We usually keep LO in a onesie during the day and a sleeper at night without a blanket or a onesie with a light swaddle and he doesn't seem uncomfortable.

All of this. Florida. Obnoxious. 76, 74. Onesie. Sleeper. Boom.

LadySamLady · June 2016

Our apartment is always chilly, usually set at 70 but feels colder sometimes. LO sleeps in footed long sleeved jammies. During the day it's usually a onesie and pants inside with socks or booties and just a onesie outside because, summer. I'm always stressing that she's cold so usually cover her with a light blanket while nursing, etc.

tgortney · June 2016

We have double air conditioning, upstairs and downstairs. We keep both at 71-72 but our bedroom is upstairs and it cools and heats up easier. Daytime is a onsie then swaddle for naps into a light fleece swaddle sleepsack, night time is the same for our room. LO is a sweaty baby so I stress that he's hot. If his hands and feet are cool but core temp is warm then I feel good, because their circulatory system isn't developed enough at this age to heat up the digitals anyway.

We actually turn the temp up to 74 for baths to keep it warm. I live in NC. How are you ladies in FL and TX surviving at 74-76 at your house?!? Sounds like torture!!

amberraysofdawn · June 2016

@tgortney On our old A/C system, I used to keep it a solid 72. Anything above/below was too hot/cold. This new one feels the same at 74, and we adjust with ceiling fans depending on the time of day and the room.

The whole point of getting the new A/C was to get the back of the house to be the same temp as the front of the house (we have one thermostat for the whole place), but no dice. It still is much cooler in one half of the house than the other during the summer, and much warmer in the opposite half in the winter.

dsmith211 · June 2016

tgortney said:

We have double air conditioning, upstairs and downstairs. We keep both at 71-72 but our bedroom is upstairs and it cools and heats up easier. Daytime is a onsie then swaddle for naps into a light fleece swaddle sleepsack, night time is the same for our room. LO is a sweaty baby so I stress that he's hot. If his hands and feet are cool but core temp is warm then I feel good, because their circulatory system isn't developed enough at this age to heat up the digitals anyway.

We actually turn the temp up to 74 for baths to keep it warm. I live in NC. How are you ladies in FL and TX surviving at 74-76 at your house?!? Sounds like torture!!

Lol. I think when it's like between 90-100 outside with much warmer 'feels like' temps outside it makes 74-76 not feel so bad. And I know at least in Florida a lot of that is humidity too and the ac removes that so that definitely helps.

Honestly though, if I kept our ac at the low 70's here I would probably need a second job.

folamij · June 2016

Another Texan here. We keep it around 75 and Munchkin just wears a onesie during the day, and pajamas at night. If we notice she's warm, we'll turn the air a little lower but that rarely happens. Guess she's already adjusted to the heat!

lionstigersbears · June 2016

72-74 here in Chicago burbs. I don't handle heat well...I basically turn into a toddler. Margaret usually is in a onesie, short romper or dress and I keep light swaddle blankets around for her as needed. At night she's in a cotton footed sleeper and swaddle blanket. DS is usually in a tshirt and diaper, sometimes shorts, but he goes in and out all day so he gets hot!

Bellodomani · June 2016

No one in Portland has AC, so our house is basically always about the same that is outside, maybe 5-10 degrees cooler if it gets really hot out because we close up all the blinds around noon on bad days. I've never noticed either of my babies be affected by hot or cold except for a few weeks ago when there was a massive heat wave and it got over 100 two days in a row- baby slept in just a diaper and a swaddle, and I really didn't want to swaddle her because it was so hot but she just cannot fall asleep without it. She was so sweaty when she woke up to eat that I had to change swaddled twice that night, and in the morning I realized it had been 10 hours since she had a wet or poopy diaper. I called the pedi and she said basically nurse her nonstop til she pees and if it doesn't happen in 2 hours bring her in. It was scary! But she eventually peed, thank God.

kitandcat · June 2016

I'm in OH. We keep it 71-72. During the day LO is in a onesie and pants and almost always also has some kind of blanket on him. At night he's in footed long sleeved sleepers, also with a blanket. DH and I are both so hot we're sweating with it at 71/72, when I was pregnant it was set at 65!! So that's as high as we can go without being totally uncomfortable but it means LO is pretty covered up most of the time because if he's not he gets cold! I'm wondering now after reading this if we are keeping it too cold!! I can't imagine LO being in just a onesie or a diaper without being freezing, but it sounds nice to not have him need to be so covered up! Idk how
DH and I would survive tho!!

Pascal86 · June 2016

Bellodomani said:

No one in Portland has AC, so our house is basically always about the same that is outside, maybe 5-10 degrees cooler if it gets really hot out because we close up all the blinds around noon on bad days. I've never noticed either of my babies be affected by hot or cold except for a few weeks ago when there was a massive heat wave and it got over 100 two days in a row- baby slept in just a diaper and a swaddle, and I really didn't want to swaddle her because it was so hot but she just cannot fall asleep without it. She was so sweaty when she woke up to eat that I had to change swaddled twice that night, and in the morning I realized it had been 10 hours since she had a wet or poopy diaper. I called the pedi and she said basically nurse her nonstop til she pees and if it doesn't happen in 2 hours bring her in. It was scary! But she eventually peed, thank God.

In Portland too - I gave birth and was in the hospital for the heat wave. Was so happy to both not be pregnant anymore and be in the cool hospital that weekend!

Our house actually does have AC, but I rarely get away with using it since my husband grew up without it and hates it. We don't have a basement though, so no other escape from the heat when it gets miserable, and then I insist. We'll definitely be using it if it gets too hot though for the baby's sake. Generally trying to keep the house between 68-72, and lately that has meant turning the heat on.

lbachran · June 2016

Another Texan here. Yeah, so @Kit&Cat talked about 65 being her house temperature while pregnant, it's our house temperature pretty much always. Yes, we live in an igloo and LO seems to love it! He's always in a onsie or romper and diaper. We tried putting him in footed onesies and hats, but he'll turn red and start sweating after a few hours. He sleeps in a muslin swaddle with his feet out.

Charla1224 · June 2016

@Kit&Cat and @lbachran you've made me feel better. I live in Indiana but we keep outs between 68-71 and, as I've mentioned before, LO hangs out in just a diaper or a diaper and onesie. She never seems cold. Well. Her feet are sometimes but they stay cold even outside when it's in the 80s. I just put socks on her although she doesn't seem bothered by her feet. She is swaddled in a muslin blanket for naps.

lizChesnut · June 2016

My husband and I are opposite on this one. He hates being hot. He's always cranking the AC on and I'm freezing and sneaking it back off! He keeps it at 78 now. He says he's still hot but it worksand I don't freeze lol
Were in northern ca.

arj14 · June 2016

We don't have central air, so it really depends what the weather is like - and in WI in summer that can be highly variable (gogo bipolar upper Midwest weather!). We have portable ac units we keep in the bedrooms so we can escape to one or the other if necessary, and when we're in there I really try to go by the skin temp of S's limbs (especially if they're exposed) for if it's getting too cold.

camillaandcarson · June 2016

Ours is set on 72 but can get 75- 76 in the day time.
At night baby is in a sleeper and swaddled either in a hospital blanket or muslin blanket.
The early daytime long sleeves and long pants and socks. Will sometimes cover in a blanket if needed and remove as needed. Hottest part of the day onesie and thin long pants no socks.

When we don't have a newborn we keep it around 78. I love that since I am always ridiculously cold but we turn set the AC lower since our newborns like to be swaddled.

and_peggy · June 2016

One more Texan. We keep it around 72. I like to open the curtain but it'll heat the house quickly. Stupid weather. Where are you other Texans located?

proudparent2b · June 2016

Ours is set constantly to 70 degrees. During the day, LO wears onesie. At night, he wears a cloth sleepsack with just diaper underneath. He seems perfectly content.

khochanadel · June 2016

Another Texan, Austinite specifically.

We keep ours at 70, but it makes a steady climb during the day and tops out around 76. DH hates it and turns all the fans in our house on super high, even in our bedroom where it stays much cooler. I finally got him to turn the fan down at night.

We only really put onesies on them if we're going out because they just end up pooping or peeing or spitting up on them anyway. For sleep one is in a sleep sack the other in a muslin swaddle.

lbachran · June 2016

@aehogan90, in San Antonio here.

and_peggy · June 2016

@lbachran I'm in San Antonio as well!

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