to not always put 10 week old DS in a vest?

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DS is 10 weeks old and happy and healthy, no health considerations etc. I know the 'rule' is that baby should be wearing one more layer than me. Up to now I've always dressed him in a vest and then long sleeved baby gro or little trousers and top. But do I always have to put a vest underneath? Is there a reason babieshave to wear them? Could I for example put him in a baby gro and then a cardigan on top to make the two layers? I have lots of hand-knitted cardigans we got given when he was born and he's not getting to wear them at the moment.

TIA

they only need extra layer til 1 month,i remember that from when i used to listen to stuff like that.

i worry about too many layers as i carry ds all day in a sling and he sleeps with me so i wouldnt want him to overheat.

Small baby without a vest? Nope, does not compute. Tis seven shades of wrong.

At one month old my DD was 5lb10 with not an ounce of fat on her, she's still very diddy at 13 months, in this weather she definitely needs a vest!

I always put DS (15months) in a vest - to avoid draughts, keep him cosy etc.

Although when he was born it was 28 degrees so it was just a vest with socks (cos his feet got cold). Then by December (aged 3 months) it was long-sleeved vest, thick babygrow (velour) and thick cardi (very cold flat! we have since moved).

It was really weird this summer when I suddenly realised that he didn't need a vest (late 20s, early 30s°).

Then again, I always wear a vest too! (no poppers though )

Slight tangent - does anyone else's child refuse a duvet/blanket/sleeping bag at night? DS just will not go to sleep if he has one on him, so I have to wait until he's fast asleep to cover him up but he always kicks it off I don't know if I should just leave him be or keep trying to cover him up...He wears a sleeveless vest plus pyjamas with feet and doesn't seem cold but it just doesn't feel right.

It's a rubbish rule. After a while I worked out that actually DS was a warm baby and now MY rule is one layer less than me.

DS always wears a vest, I think it looks awful when a baby's top rides up leaving a bare torso. Put your baby in a vest, keep them warm!

Deckthehalls - I reckon if he was too hot/cold he'd wake up. Mine wriggles out of his blanket if he's too warm, but he can't escape from the sleeping bag!

Anything with no legs, and poppers between the crotch is a vest to me. Doesn't matter about long/short/no sleeves. Some days I put a long-sleeve vest on under a short-sleeve t-shirt. Looks very cool :) He always has one on. Except when there was a bit of a heatwave in the summer and he wore just a thin cotton romper.

MY three always wore vests, if it was warm they would wear just a vest rather than leaving the vest off under other clothes. They look so comfy in vests as nothing rubs and they don't have any poppers or waist bands on their skin.

DS1 is 20 months and still wears a vest every day as do I! I'm another who can't bear seeing a bare torso when a babies clothes ride up.

"I reckon if he was too hot/cold he'd wake up"

Ah, he does wake up though but for a million reasons (neighbours being loud, thirsty, ill, teething, just general being DS who has never slept through the night...) so I want to eliminate the temperature issue if I can.

Thing is, when tiny he was swaddled and had a sleeping bag (very cold flat) and sometimes an extra blanket and he slept fine. It's only since the summer, when it was far too hot to have a cover on that he's got used to not having one.