Blanket + Sleeping Bag

[spudlet7]

Baby is 4 months old. It's bloody freezing in here and I can't see how he'll be warm enough in his short-sleeved vest, sleepsuits, and 2.5 tog sleeping bag. I'm cold under my duvet. I think it's around 16 degrees in here.

Can I put a blanket over him too? Or is that too risky?

Thanks all for your advice and suggestions. He has a long-sleeved vest on tonight and have turned radiator up. If I feel he's still too cold later on, I'll try the cardigan idea!

@Reccy2018 I hope you managed to get some sleep! DS slept through until 8.30am so I guess he can't have been too cold!

@Amanduh I think it was a different poster with the quilt on the 6m baby. Mine is 4 months and I was considering a light cellular blanket, not a quilt.

@abcdema I might invest in a 3.5 too. I hadn't come across them before but now I know they exist! Will look into the sleepsuits too, thanks for mentioning.

Mine was in a 2.5 tog with sleeves and a celluar blanket at that age. She liked to be warm... she is now 17 months and under a duvet instead

Couldn't you just put the heating on?

Unfortunalty i suffered from horrid night sweats after having dd and the heating made it 100 times worse. My dh also gets too warm and it gives him migraine. Although the room was adequate temp for us our dd just wanted to be cosy (and continues to like to be cosy)

2.5 tog bag, vest, babygro and cardigan. I used to bulk up the layers under the sleeping bag with a cardi then didn’t have the worry of a blanket. It’s soooo 🥶

Glad I found this thread. DS (5 months) has been waking constantly throughout the night. I only had him in long sleeved vest and 2.5 tog bag in 19° room, as per gro company's guidelines. Reading what everyone else has their baby in, I'm now pretty sure he's been too cold.

The advice is no blanket. I did though. I tucked the blanket under the bottom of the mattress so it couldn’t ride up and put baby feet to foot so they couldn’t wriggle under it.

The recommendations had changed between my third and fourth children. Grobags were recommended, then by the time I had my fourth, the midwives were saying that blankets were safer. I continued to use grobags. With a light blanket in the most freezing weather.

@KittensAndRainbows When room temp is 19 degrees, I put DS in a sleepsuit and a 2.5 bag, no vest. So I would just swap the vest for a sleepsuit.

@Shednik did the midwife say why a blanket was safer than a sleeping bag?

Cardigan would be better than a blanket but cellular not much of a problem Do NOT put the heating on in the room. When we are asleep we should be cooler. You can get bags of different thickness. Hands will often feel cold

Fleecy sleepsuits? Higher tog sleeping bag? Heating on?

Babies hands and feet are often cold, it doesn’t mean they are cold at all.