Baby room temp guidelines

[Gonefullygaga]

My room temp tonight is 19 degrees. Outside of my duvet, that's cold for me. I'm in an oodie and fluffy socks. According to the guidelines I've been given, my 10 week old baby should only be in a long sleeved vest under his 2.5 tog sleeping bag. He'd be freezing like that imo. He's in a sleeveless vest and babygro and he feels nicely warm, not too hot or too cold. Not sweaty or flushed. OK? Not OK?

Follow the guidelines. The saying goes "a cold baby will cry, a hot baby will die"

While probably a little dramatic, it's better for him to wake you up because he's cold than for something to happen because he's hot

He did wake me up because it was cold, last night. That's why I've dressed him in an additional layer tonight. His chest and back were freezing last night.

If his chest and back were cold then fine add the layer.

What room thermometer are you using?

The one sold by the lullaby trust.

16 degrees as an ideal temp for a baby's room seems bananas to me. I'd be frozen solid at that temp.

Your room thermometer sounds out of wack if he's that cold in 19 degrees and that many clothes.

when dd was little o had so many charts of “what baby should wear with what sleeping bag at each temperature” and they all were different. My dd used to wake if her room dropped to 18 in a long sleeve vest and 2.5 bag. I popped little pyjama bottoms on her when that happened so that her chest wasn’t getting another layer.

id always say play it safe with the guidelines, but each baby is different. Just regularly check baby for signs of overheating/sweating etc (although dd always had a sweaty head even if cold due to her thick hair)

It isn't. I run cold so I expect he gets it from me. I notice everyone on MN always seems boiling in room temps I consider cold.

Perhaps he does run cold. I do think people become accustomed to their surroundings too. If you have the house relatively warm, he will get used to that ambient temperature. I've always loved in cold houses since birth and am used to it. Not got any heating on now for example.

We don't have the heating on yet and we never have it on overnight even when it is very cold out.

I grew up in a draughty old victorian house and remember constantly being cold.

I did tend to find the same with my son when he was a wee one, he always seemed to need an extra layer compared to the recommendations. I was quite careful until I found my feet with where his comfortable was and he never showed any signs of being too hot.