Anyone else have a DC who is like an oven at bedtime? What to put him in?!

[Bellasblankexpression]

DC is 18 months and is a warm boy like his dad. Whenever he eats or has bedtime milk or is tired he heats up like an oven.
The result of this is he can’t abide by much clothing and bedding when he first goes to sleep so I have to stealth change him later on at night and put a vest/pjs etc on when the temperature drops and he’s cooled in his sleep.
It’s driving me a bit mad as I can never just go up to bed myself I’m always having to put his bedclothes on, sometimes it wakes him, sometimes he doesn’t.

Anyone else got a hot kid? What do you put them in? I’ve left him in just his vest overnight before but then he wakes up cold in the early hours and won’t go back to sleep!

This is a tricky one! I used to send my hot kid to bed dressed very lightly, so just a vest in summer, and then cover him with a thin blanket tucked in under the mattress before I went to bed. It was the cause of a lot of wake ups until he was old enough to cover himself!

I find it so hard! He feels roasting when he goes up and won’t sleep in a bag initially, kicks out like a mad thing, kicks off blankets, but cools down as he falls into a deep sleep and then gets cold if he doesn’t have extra layers on 😐

I’m a cold fish myself and do the opposite - all the layers to fall asleep then wake up boiling!

I’m wondering about merino layers as they are supposed to be good for regulating temperature

Yes, dressed lightly and covered him when I went to bed. Checked on him when I had to get up with younger DC.
Eventually he learnt to wriggle down the bed under the blanket (I’d leave it over the bottom half of the bed) and when he got bigger to pull it over himself.

At the moment I've been putting mine in a vest with a cellular blanket on top, then when he wakes up for milk putting pjama bottoms on him as well.

Vest and Muslin then thicker blanket later