To insist on coat or blanket from car seat to house with 6 month baby?

20 metres?

Overreaction. Big time. Sorry.

Are you trying to normaise hyperbole?

How absolutely ridiculous to throw in neglect

But you made it an argument.

You or dh should have used the coat as a ‘blanket’ if the blanket was unavailable and just popped it over baby’s tummy/ legs to create a layer of warmth. When it’s winter we still mostly wear a coat or at least a jumper / long sleeved top of some kind in the car. Baby is better with a blanket in a cooler car rather than no blanket in a hot, heated car.

Would dh have been happy in a thin 1 layer cotton outfit and a bald head to go from house to car I wonder? 🤔

30 seconds of exposure to the cold will not harm anyone. How do you think they get on in countries with freezing winters? I assume babies aren't bundled into car seats in 1000 layers and snow suits there either, due to car safety. And I highly down mothers are putting the kind of giant thick coat needed for those temps on for a brisk stroll back into their warm house.

They will keep warm from your body heat at that distance. The only time I bothered with a blanket for walking from the car to the house was if there was a decent amount of rain/snow!

Find the stats on babies who have frozen to death in a 20 metre transit from a car to a house which is assumably warm.
Absolutely ridiculous. Only people with a lot of time on their hands would make a fuss about this.

Except the car could well be cold? And they don't heat up in the back instantly

So a hat and a blanket would be reasonable

Carrying a child from the car to inside without putting extra clothing on is not neglect! FFS.

I can’t believe it’s normal to fret so much about 30 sec exposure to some cold air

This is a 6 month old baby who has just been unwell recently? You are trying to normalise neglect

@untitled1 I think you need to stop micromanaging your DH and let him make his own parenting decisions.

Babies lose heat easily , they generally need one more layer than adults. Op stated that her baby was also getting over a chest infection. I’d definitely have used a hat and blanket and just taken the hat off when in the car

Not sure why posters are telling the OP off about what the baby was wearing. She was worried about him getting cold between the car and the house so it’s unlikely the baby has been out all afternoon in just a onesie. I’m sure they were nice and warm whatever they were doing.

The baby will be 100% fine without a coat, I wouldn’t have woken them up!

But in the first line of the OP the baby is going from house to car. Also a fact.
Either way I would have a blanket on the baby in the car and going from the car to the house - because it only takes a few seconds to put one on. And because my house isn’t warm when I first come home (I don’t heat my house if I’m not in it!)

Congrats by the way on learning how to tag not one but seven people in one post. 😂

agree. Just because you are his mum doesn't mean that you get to trump everything his father does.
Your DH is the child's father. As long as he's not pulling stupid stunts like giving him razor blades to play with, butt out and chill.

If you don'T, don't come back in 12 months whining about how you have to do everything all the time and your DH doesn't lift a finger.

Sounds like it became an argument because neither of you agreed that the other person was pushing for what was best for DS.

30 seconds of more warmth compared to uninterrupted sleep. Neither of these things were a big deal and whoever was carrying DS to the car should have been left to use their judgement.

Why was he only wearing a babygro in 7degrees? Surely vest and cardi would have been standard clothing for that weather. When mine were babies the advice was babies should be wearing one layer more than you if you are comfortable. What were you wearing outside today?

It’d take longer to take the cost off when he got to the car than it would’ve taken him to walk to the car.

When we were in proper winter with icy mornings I would usually wrap a blanket around them to walk out and then cover them with the blanket when in the car but it’s not cold enough to be necessary yet in my opinion.

Lunacy . Honestly. We are creating children with absolutely zero physiological or emotional resilience.

does he warm up the car first? i take the kids out in a blanket then wrap them in it as the car needs at least a few mins to warm up.

It didn’t harm me at all and I didn’t suggest it did. I was able to say it’s bloody cold out there when I arrived indoors. And when I go out in the morning I’ll know to have my jacket on if I don’t want to feel cold. I’m suggesting a 6 month old might feel it uncomfortable to feel a blast of cold air through a single layer of cotton in 7c temperatures when it’s so easy to avoid by popping a blanket round them.

If I knew the house was going to be warm then no I think it's fine, but I'd have put the coat around his back, holding him to my chest.

I'd be surprised if the cold hadn't woken him up anyway.

i would just wrap in a blanket quickly but it wouldn’t be life or death I’d just walk a bit quicker to the house! I understand your point but they’ll be fine for short distance x

The fact that the baby was going FROM the car TO the house was actually in the title of this thread!

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I walked from the kerbside to the front door in 7c today while carrying my jacket. I was wearing a tee shirt and jumper and I still felt a blast of cold air.

And how did it harm you? Same for babies. 30 seconds of being colder than they had been won't hurt them in any way