...to think the beach is no place for a 2 week old in this heat?

[Quilty]

Just seen someone post a pic on FB of them sat in one of those pop up tents on the beach with their 2 week old baby. Ok so its protecting it from the UV rays but from experience those tents get so hot!

We've spent most of the weekend indoors with our 5week old with curtains drawn as it keeps the house a little bit cooler and yes, I'm longing to be out enjoying the weather but my baby comes first!

During the first fortnight of dd's life she went
on the school run (bloody freezing)
tesco (bit nippy)
leisure centre cafe during swimming lessons (hot as hell in a heatwave)
MIL house (central heating permanently on high)
Poor child deserves a medal for surviving.

OP, please save this thread and read it in a couple of years' time.

You will, I promise you, laugh at yourself.

Congrats on the new baby. Enjoy, and don't get too worked up.

Oh do pipe down OP, I live in the tropics and was down on the beach with DS when he was a week old.
It was 38oc and it was lovely. Given that they've been kept at a steady 37oc in the womb, I imagine the hot temperature is more than satisfactory.
The pop up tents are great if you don't want them lying in a sweaty car seat. DS loved his.

I was born in early January in Australia - the time of year when temperatures oscillate both sides of 40c for weeks at a time. Pretty much nobody and nowhere had air conditioning, and even now, the school where a friend of mine teaches isn't air conditioned. Strangely, infancy survival rates are roughly that of the UK. Slightly better, IIRC.

And where do Australians head in the hot weather? The beach. Because it's quite a bit cooler - it's quite common to sleep on the beach in high summer because of this.

YABU for thinking a 2wo shouldn't be on the beach. YAB especially U for referring to the mild warmth the UK is experiencing at the moment as 'this heat'. You don't know you're alive.

I'm sorry quintessential, I didn't realise it was just the young folk who are terrible parents!!! That's made me chuckle.

If it's anything like it was here today, the beach is the best place to be.

Much, much cooler on the beach than in the house

We live by the sea, my 2 have spent most of their lives on the beach, hot, cold and pissing with rain and both have lived to tell the tale. DD2 was a summer baby so would have been on the beach from v young, I can't actually remember, but lots of suncream, stay in the shade I don't see a problem

4 days old on the beach covered in suntan lotion? Poor little mite!

Elphaba

But that's the point. We aren't used to it.

We might not be, but a two week old baby doesn't know any different.

Here where I live in the tropics the doctors advise no suncream on babies under one: you keep them in the shade.

They all snooze away under trees, under sunshades, in buggies with big sunroofs, wearing vests. If you angle the shaded pushchair into the breeze the beach is the coolest place to be.

Hahaha

Nothing poor about him monkey nuts- he was out in the fresh sea air, getting breastfed as and when he pleased,protected from the sun. What exactly is poor about that? What age do you find it acceptable to use suncream on children?

Nothing poor about him monkey nuts- he was out in the fresh sea air, getting breastfed as and when he pleased,protected from the sun. What exactly is poor about that? What age do you find it acceptable to use suncream on children?

What almostfifty said Jamie. A 2 week old don't know nuffink about what's hot, cold, temperate or otherwise. It's not genetically conditioned by its pommy parents to abhor temperatures more than four degrees either side of 15 celcius. Or is it...

But more to the point, I was demonstrating that newborn babies are just fine in genuine extremes of temperature. The pleasant warmth you have here is nothing whatsoever to be concerned about.

No, that wasn't my point, my point was that we are whinging because we aren't used to the heat.

I still think a tent ain't the best place for an infant, who can't regulate own body temperature, to be, Ever been camping in this kind of weather? Feel like staying in the tent? Not really.

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Elphaba

YABU

I'm sure they were aware of the heat actually being there themselvs. Though it depends where they went when you say 'this heat' today has actually been the coolest I think in the last 10 days or so where I am (NW).

Comparing temperature in the uterus to outside is a bit silly, IMO. In the womb the baby is on life support. Outside he or she is subject to dehydration etc. I'm not a doctor, but still it seems to be going a bit far to make your point by denying that over-heating is a problem for babies. It's associated with cot-death, for instance.

Ha ha!
YABU! I was at the beach with my 3 week old DD and 2.5yo DS yesterday. Baby not dead. Toddler ate ice cream. You could risk getting out more, for both your sakes, I reckon.

OH, before anyone JUMPs on me, I'm not suggesting the baby on FB is at risk of cot death.

Ah, too late.

YANBU

The met office have issued a weather warning for the heat wave - very young and the old are at most risk.

People can scoff all they like but we are not really set up in this country for hot weather.

I have two DCs who don't like the heat, I keep them out of the sun where possible between 12-3pm - I don't think it healthy to just be out in the heat. And any comparisons with "poor hot countries" are silly. And places like Spain have siestas for a reason.

Heat stroke is dangerous. Why mock the OP? Yes maybe she's being a bit PFB - but my curtains are closed on the sunny side of the house (although we were in the garden this morning and afternoon)

I live by the sea. There's always a breeze coming off the sea - nothing to stop it.

So really, the beach is the best possible place in this heat. YABU