2 Queries

[Haily111]

Hello (me again) my dd is 17 weeks, we are house sitting at a farm at the moment, and it is an old house. The thing is she seems to be an ok temperature when i put her down to sleep but by the morning her hands are pretty cold. I have tried scratchmits but they keep coming off has anyone got any ideas what else i could do?
Not sure how the heating works & also am worried it will get too hot, as it is such an old system!!

Second question is i have left my dd twice with my nan(her greatnan), both times i have come back to her crying her eyes out, now i can truthfully say she isn't a crye baby. My nan has had 5 girls herself so she knows what she is doing. Do you think she gets worried as i am not there?? Isnt this a bit early?

Thank you

[gscrym]

I'm not sure where you could get them now but DS had some sleep suits with fold over cuffs so you didn't need scratch mitts. The other option is sew a small piece of cloth onto the cuff and fold it over the little ones hands.

[ledodgyrobespierre]

They sell the sleep suits with built in scratch mits in Matalan.

[auntymandy]

if she is generally warm then I wouldnt worry too much about cold hands. Try to keep them under her covers.
As for you nan. not sure what to say. Does she talk loudly?

[Haily111]

Thanks all. I shall try and sew (never done it before so that should be fun!!!:-))
I shall also have a look in Matalan, son't i need to be a member or something?

Auntymandy, sadly my dd doesn have covers as she always kicks them off, i put her in a grobag. I dont think she talks loudly (not that i can recall anyways!) was just thinking that maybe my dd notices im not there, but not sure what age that starts!

[glitterchick]

Hi ya. Public Health Nurse told me not to worry about cold hands. Check back of neck for real temperature and don't overheat.

Maybe baby is making strange? My 5 month does.