To ask what your baby is wearing in bed at the moment

[rogertherabbit]

So we have started putting our 5 month old daughter to bed (cot, in our room) in a long sleeved vest and a 2.5 tog sleeping bag. According to the gro bag website she only needs a vest and a 1.5 tog bag with a room temp of 22 degrees (this is what the temp is currently)

I worry this isn't enough - she already wakes up with cold hands, and I'm wondering if she needs more on. We sleep with a 10.5 tog duvet and I am sometimes cold

On the other hand, I don't want her to overheat. We live in a new-ish house

I'm just wondering what you have your babies in - should I leave her as she is...?

[rogertherabbit]

Thanks all - it seems she's probably about right. Her hands are like ice blocks too, although she sleeps with them above her head which probably doesn't help. We've only just started putting her in the bags the past couple of weeks - she was under a blanket before then but was getting good at kicking them off

[frikadela01]

13 week old is in long sleeve sleep suit and sleeping bag from IKEA (god knows how many togs). I think he likes the security of the sleeping bag. We were down south a few weeks ago and it was boiling but he just wouldn't sleep unless he was in it.

[TiffanyAtBreakfast]

It's so subjective anyway, all babies are slightly different. Just make sure baby warm but not boiling to touch on neck/chest.

[TiffanyAtBreakfast]

5 month old DS is in a vest, sleepsuit and 1 tog sleeping bag. Just added a blanket on top of that as his neck felt cool. No idea what temp the bedroom is but it's cold - I should really get a room thermometer!

[sleepwhatsleep]

starbright10 there's about 8 people on here who have their LOs in the same...

[TwllBach]

My Five month old is wearing a long sleeved sleep suit and a sleeping bag... Not sure what tog but it is just a cheap tesco one. He's also got two blankets. I worry about his hands though because they are always like blocks of ice!

[bippitybopityboo]

My 3 month old has long sleeve vest and a 2.5 tog gro bag will change to a sleep suit when it's cooler

[gunting]

How do you all get these babies in sleeping bags?! My son acts possessed if we attempt to put him in one.

[LBOCS2]

Our bedroom is 19 degrees with the window open so plenty of airflow. DD2 has a long sleeved vest or sleepsuit, plus two cellular blankets. I'm about to move her into a 2.5 tog bag - we'll see how it goes, as she's a wriggler. It might help.

[Starbright10]

Sleepwhatsleep - that's way too many clothes - you can't compare your temperature as your duvet isn't wrapped all round you like a sleeping bag is and also you aren't a baby! It's dangerous to have s baby too hot as they can't regulate their temperature

[Champagneformyrealfriends]

A short sleeved vest, sleepsuit and a 2.5 tog bag. DD cries if she's cold (6 months).

[Purplefrogshoes]

Vest, sleep suit and 2.5 tog grobag. Our bedroom is very cold though

[Pistachiois50pmore]

Our 8 month old is wearing a short sleeved body suit and a long sleeved sleepsuit. Sometimes bumped up to a long sleeved bodysuit under the sleepsuit if it's colder. No sleeping bag or blankets - he just lies on top of the covers. Room is about 20C.

[LouBlue1507]

My 10 week old is in a short sleeved vest, baby grow and thin blanket with holes in (mainly for comfort). Our bedroom temperature is about 23C.

[Palegreenstars]

19 degrees with a 5 month old. 1.5 tog and long sleeved vest. She does seem to get hot more easily than most though but def prefer too cold than too hot.

[sleepwhatsleep]

His hands feel warm now but it was the same temp last night and by the morning his hands felt like icicles. He doesn't feel hot just warm.

[sleepwhatsleep]

My 11 week old has a vest, sleepsuit and a 2.5 tog grobag (sleeping bag).

During the day downstairs he has a vest and sleepsuit on without getting too hot. Upstairs I feel it's cold and my groegg thermometer (that is on top of the wardrobe, so up high where heat should be rising) says it's only 19 degrees.

I feel cold in a duvet with pajamas on.

[Joinourclub]

Sleep suit plus 2 blankets, 1 up to armpits and the other up to belly button.

[CoffeeAtLukes]

We're in Scotland so it's quite chilly here at the moment. She's in a long sleeve vest, a baby grow and a 3.5tog sleeping bag with arms. She runs cold. Unlike my eldest who sleeps naked with the covers flung off all year round.

I feel the back of her neck/upper back to see if she's warm enough.

[heatherwithapee]

It's fine for hands to be cool. If baby is sleeping ok, they're probably warm enough. Definitely better to be tool cool than too hot.
That said, DS was always too cold if I went by the GroBag advice. It took us a long time to realise why he kept waking. Another layer and he was a much better sleeper.

[strawberrypenguin]

Long sleeve vest and 1.5 tog bag. He's a hot baby though.

[MyDarlingWhatIfYouFly]

It's totally normal for their hands to be cool, as other posters have said it's the temp of the back and chest that will give a better indication.

[Babydontcry]

13 week old is wearing short sleeved vest, sleep suit with mitts and two thinish blankets

[Kpo58]

DD is wearing a (short sleeved) bodysuit, a sleep suit and 2 blankets (which she normally escapes from by the morning).

[ralice]

1 year old in a sleepsuit, scratch sleeves () and 1 tog sleeping bag. Around 19deg in his room at the mo.