To put the heating on in the middle of the night?

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I have a 3yo. Split from her dad last year. She spends two nights a week there and sleeps until 7-7:30 regularly, but at home it's 6-6:30. I honestly don't think he's making it up, and the only thing I can think at the moment is she's warmer there than here, it's just a warmer house.

So AIBU to set the heating to come on for half an hour at day 5am, in the hope it takes the edge off and makes her sleep longer??

Nice to read a thread where two parents who aren't together spend time discussing how well DC slept and for how long rather than the usual DC comes back hungry/ scruffy/ dirty/ tired.

It is bitterly cold at night here at the moment, I woke up to the car covered in ice for the school run 😫. Hate it and am currently lying in bed with my electric blanket on trying to warm up, it's that horrible bone deep cold that doesn't go away easily. So YANBU to put the heating on.

Do have just leaned you can connect hive to Alexa! Googling that noes.

Please tell me you don’t have the house at 35-40 degrees. It’s about 2 degrees outside together and I am toasty with the thermostat at 20

What is she wearing to bed? You could avoid putting the heating on by doing the obvious like fleecy PJ, socks, fleecy blanket, those teddy bear fitted sheets.

Don’t think ive ever put it on(then we prefer it cooler at night).

@Apileofballyhoo thank you, we're trying our best to make this work the best it possibly can despite a crappy break up.

She's wearing a jersey onesie and socks usually. I haven't tried fleecy stuff as if she has a cough (and she's a toddler, there's a different cold every week) it's worse if she's too warm. She likes to be quite cool usually.

Have set the timer again for tonight so fingers crossed...

I've just started to put mine on overnight, DS wears a vest, pyjamas and grobag, but if his room drops below 22 he wakes up early or on the one occasion 19 he woke up repeatedly, then cried, clung onto me like a tiny monkey and refused to go back into his cot, I've turned our bedroom radiator off, he likes it warmer than we do!

This is why I love our Nest thermostat linked to Alexa. If I wake up chilly in the night I just say the magic words ‘Alexa, turn the heating on’ and we’re cosy again in minutes without even getting out of bed.

I guess its not uncomfortable if kids are naked

I did it until DC were at least 6, and now it's on from 6am so we wake up warm.
I'm convinced it stopped mine from being early risers. Earliest they were up in the winter was 7am, but the dark mornings helped too.

My Dad used to swear by keeping the air temperature a bit warmer when we had coughs as kids - tried this with DS when he was littler and it does help. I never noticed him coughing more if he himself was warm though. Mind you he's always roasting so I would have only ever had him in cotton onesies anyway. He's 11 now and doesn't seem to get those awful tickley coughs any more.

I'm sorry your break up was shit and I hope everything works out well for the three of you.