What do you dress your baby in at night?

[gemxgem]

I've had a look at various websites regarding temperature/dressing baby and they all seem to conflict.

Our room is usually around 20-21 degrees at night. To me it feels quite cold. I have a 2.5 tog and a 1 tog sleeping bag. Which one is best to use? I only dress him in a long sleeve sleepsuit with no vest underneath.

When it was really hot the other night he was in his sleepsuit and 1 tog sleeping bag and the room was at 24 degrees in the night.

I worry about him being too hot or too cold!

What do you use?

 

[Ceejay123]

My little mans older, he's 16 months.. But honestly I either have to dress him in just a vest, or just a Pajama top. Anything more and he sweats and wakes a lot. My house isn't really hot either! I think you'll pick up a feeling for your child, they're all different x

 

[rose.]

A short sleeve vest and a baby grow. The room is usually 18-20 degrees and he has a large cellular blanket folded in half and a small one on top

 

[xHaylesx]

My LO sleeps in a babygro and a 2.5 tog sleeping bag, no vest...his room is about average temp for the UK although when it was hot a few days ago he slept in a vest and sleeping bag instead of the babygro xx

 

[fairydust87]

It depends. He always wears a vest but one night it could be a baby grow, next night pj's, another night just the vest and pj bottoms. I put his duvet over him but he always kicks it off

 

[twobecome3]

since we got the AC and the temps constant in here, she's in a longsleeve onesie, with the sheet pulled up over her bottom half and tucked under her. when it was hot in here, just a shortsleeve onesie.

 

[WelshOneEmma]

I've had a look at various websites regarding temperature/dressing baby and they all seem to conflict.

Our room is usually around 20-21 degrees at night. To me it feels quite cold. I have a 2.5 tog and a 1 tog sleeping bag. Which one is best to use? I only dress him in a long sleeve sleepsuit with no vest underneath.

When it was really hot the other night he was in his sleepsuit and 1 tog sleeping bag and the room was at 24 degrees in the night.

I worry about him being too hot or too cold!

What do you use?

In that scenario, if it were me, i would use the 2.5 tog. But Millie always seems to feel the cold (she's like me).

The last few nights she has been going to sleep in a long sleeved body suit and 1 tog sleep bag, but if it starts getting cold again I will put her back in a sleepsuit and sleeping bag. if its any lower than 21C when she goes to bed she gets put in a sleepsuit.

 

[Gc85]

I've had a look at various websites regarding temperature/dressing baby and they all seem to conflict.

Our room is usually around 20-21 degrees at night. To me it feels quite cold. I have a 2.5 tog and a 1 tog sleeping bag. Which one is best to use? I only dress him in a long sleeve sleepsuit with no vest underneath.

When it was really hot the other night he was in his sleepsuit and 1 tog sleeping bag and the room was at 24 degrees in the night.

I worry about him being too hot or too cold!

What do you use?

A that temp my LO would wear a short sleeve vest, baby gro or pjs and a 1 tog bag. She is a pretty warm baby though. If its less than 18-19 degrees then she'll wear same as above and go in the 2.5 tog gro bag and if its really cold then I'll put a long sleeve vest, baby gro or pjs and 2.5 grobag and then lay a cellular blanket over her once she's fell alseep (she'll kick it off if she's awake)

I prefer to dress her on the cool side cause she seems to get too hot easily and it makes her really grumpy/unsettled. I am a bit funny about dressing her for bed, I only use 100% cotton grobags and blankets, I don't like man made fabrics (fleece sleepsuits' velour grobags etc) cause I don't think they are breathable and can make them overheat.

 

[Leesy]

I dress Angas differently for bed each night as the weather here is al over the place. He gets quite warm, right now he is a long sleeve (no leg) and .5 summer tog and its just about winter, work that one out lol.

As pp said I think you will just get a feel for your baby. I always check Angas before I go to bed and put a light blanket over the top if it's cooled down a bit.

 

[katherinegrey]

I dress LO in a short sleeved vest, a long sleeve baby grow and if the room is over 21 degrees he goes in his 1.5 tog sleeping bag if it's below he goes in his 2.5 tog one.

 

[lemongrass]

I have no idea about togs or what temp my room is. I just go by how my baby feels. If its really warm I just put him in a sleeper. I have a light fabric sleep sack and a heavier fleece one depending on how cool the room is. Lots of the time I put him in the fleece one with a sleeper underneath but only zip it halfway so that it keeps him warm but not too hot and can breathe. I don't think that you need to get technical about this and just use your common sense.

 

[Bevziibubble]

I use a top and pants plus sleep sack. If it's quite hot then I'll leave the sleep sack off. We co sleep so she gets a lot of my body heat for warmth anyway!

 

[TroubleExpect]

I've been reading up on this as LO has just hit 10lb so we can start using the bags.

Our room is around 18-19 at night and I bought 1 tog bags for her but wasn't sure what to dress her in. The guide says just a LS vest but I thought she would need to be in a sleepsuit. I feel the cold so to me the room is freezing esp in the middle of the night but the temperature egg we have says 18-19 is ideal.

When we had those warm days at the beginning of May the room hit 25 at the peak which was rather annoying as I couldn't get the temp down very easily. hubby told me to stick her in a short sleeved vest and put a cotton blanket on her which worked as she slept through.

For those using bags would you say you need a .5 for the UK summer? I only have 1 & 2.5 tog and don't know if I should get a .5 tog just in case we need one.

 

[WelshOneEmma]

I've been reading up on this as LO has just hit 10lb so we can start using the bags.

Our room is around 18-19 at night and I bought 1 tog bags for her but wasn't sure what to dress her in. The guide says just a LS vest but I thought she would need to be in a sleepsuit. I feel the cold so to me the room is freezing esp in the middle of the night but the temperature egg we have says 18-19 is ideal.

When we had those warm days at the beginning of May the room hit 25 at the peak which was rather annoying as I couldn't get the temp down very easily. hubby told me to stick her in a short sleeved vest and put a cotton blanket on her which worked as she slept through.

For those using bags would you say you need a .5 for the UK summer? I only have 1 & 2.5 tog and don't know if I should get a .5 tog just in case we need one.

I do have a 0.5 tog but only because i was given one. I found when we first moved Millie across to sleeping bags (which we did at 8lbs ) she was still waking in the night and we followed the guidelines. We then made sure she was a little warmer and she was better. I think as someone else said, you need to use common sense as you know your baby.

 

[MindUtopia]

We were dressing our daughter in a bodysuit and a sleepsuit (when it was really cold) but now it's just a long-sleeved bodysuit. We co-sleep though so she gets my body heat all night and has a blanket. When we were using the sleepsuit too, she was starting to get way too hot at night. Our room temp is usually around 18C.

Definitely check the recommendations on the packaging (or website) for your sleeping bag. It should tell you depending on your usual room temp how heavily you should dress them. I would imagine you wouldn't want to use too much as 21C is pretty warm for a baby. Our midwife said it's recommended that temps be around 16-18C.

 

[polaris]

I always found I needed to dress DS just slightly warmer than recommendations for him to stay comfy. e.g. I might dress him in a vest and sleepsuit instead of just a long-sleeved vest.

With Clara I haven't really figured out yet what suits her. She's in a long-sleeved vest, baby-gro, and 2.5 tog bag at the moment and the room temp is 18 degrees, but the nights have gone cold again here so the temp could go down during the night. Sometimes I put a blanket over her during the night if she seems cold.

 

[babydust1990]

LO is usually a really warm baby but my house is freezing at night. He has a long sleeve vest, babygro, 1.5 tog sleeping bag and usually I'll chuck a blanket on before I go bed. He used to wake up in the morning and be freezing but isnt so bad now so I'm gonna start skipping the blanket and maybe change to short sleeve vests.

 

[daisydoo]

I've been reading up on this as LO has just hit 10lb so we can start using the bags.

Our room is around 18-19 at night and I bought 1 tog bags for her but wasn't sure what to dress her in. The guide says just a LS vest but I thought she would need to be in a sleepsuit. I feel the cold so to me the room is freezing esp in the middle of the night but the temperature egg we have says 18-19 is ideal.

When we had those warm days at the beginning of May the room hit 25 at the peak which was rather annoying as I couldn't get the temp down very easily. hubby told me to stick her in a short sleeved vest and put a cotton blanket on her which worked as she slept through.

For those using bags would you say you need a .5 for the UK summer? I only have 1 & 2.5 tog and don't know if I should get a .5 tog just in case we need one.

Yes a 0.5 tog bag is a great investment for the summer its just like using a sheet it's so thin (I've just got a slumbersac one off amazon for £10) i used one many summer nights with DS

JUst a word to the wise over sleeping bags too - also take into account your lo's health when deciding on which tog to use - if they are poorly remember their temp can shoot up fast and if they are all wrapped up in a high tog bag they can overheat very fast -this happened to us with DS and he was very poorly xx

 

[F0xybabe]

I usually judge by how I'm feeling temperature wise. It usually hovers around 24-25 degrees in my room when we're sleeping and she likes to be swaddled tight so usually shes in a diaper, swaddled in a receiving blanket, with a softer blanket covering her. And she usually sweats with that.

 

[LeoLeah77]

It depends on how warm/cold it is. Today the house has been pretty warm and the rooms upstairs are reading about 21/22 degrees so I have dressed her in a short sleeved body suit and she has a fleesy blanket on but ATM she's only half under the blanket so she must be warm enough.