How do you cool baby's room down?

[Ori37]

I bought a 10Ltr evaporative water cooler today from Homebase in an attempt to cool baby's room down. It's reading 28 in there. It's done absolutely nothing, in fact, the temperature has just gone up 1 degree! I've had it on full blast for 3 hrs. I'm cross, it cost me £80.00 and as far as I can see it's literally just humidified the room and made it slightly hotter.

Not sure what my AIBU question is, but can I ask what you do to cool rooms down in this heat? I'm worried about the temperature in baby's room but I'm not sure what to try next. Might put some ice in with the water!

Following as I’ve been wondering this too - I’ve kept the window open with a dark blind shut and opened the door for most of the day so the breeze can flow through but it doesn’t seem to make much difference. She’s enjoying sleeping naked though

Curtains drawn, windows open- remember the temperature drops at night too.

Fan.

Keep the windows shut and curtains closed during the day
Only open the window first thing in the morning/last thing at night
Otherwise you are just letting the hot air in

How old is your baby?

We used to live in turkey and our home would regularly be 38 degrees + in summer regardless of closed curtains and windows open. We used to remove bedding and let baby sleep in vest or just nappy. When it was very hot I have been known to pop on a fan on the moving setting.

The most difficult part was preventing rashes in their chubby creases when they were tiny. We carefully applied a bit of talc for that.

Yy to windows only open at the coolest parts of the day

I only open windows at coolest parts of the day - early morning and late evening! I keep them shut during the day as I find keeping them opening makes it hotter!

Don’t open the windows until the sun isn’t shining. Shut the doors windows and blinds.

I bought an air con unit. It’s on in the nursery now and will stay on until she goes to to bed - we then put a fan in her room for the night.

It was the best £300 I’ve ever spent. I put the air con on at 4pm and her room was 26.8, it’s now at 22.3. It will keep coming down until bedtime.

We also have some shiny silver heat reflective stuff my husband found on amazon and we put that up over the window in the morning to help reflect the heat back out. It does help. I think the ultimate answer is a little air con unit though.

Where do you get the air con unit ?

We keep curtains and blinds drawn until the sun isn’t blazing in and has moved round the house, then we open the windows. As the evening progresses it gets cooler and we often have windows open overnight with doors open.

Just dress your baby down (nappy only if needed) and remember around the world lots and lots of babies are fine in a warmer temperature.

Where is the sun in relation to the room?

You need to block the sun from coming in so using a blackout blind or piece of cardboard etc to cover the window while the sun is shining onto it.

Open windows when the outside air temperature is cooler and close them once it gets hotter. That might mean closing them first thing in the morning when it still feels like there is a breeze outside. Don't despair! It's worth it as double glazing helps insulate the heat out as well as in.

Fans only cool people, not rooms.

Air con unit from Amazon - best purchase ever, first for my DH who is grumpy at anything >18 degrees and now for DS's room! It cools the nursery in about half an hour.

Fans only cool people, not rooms

I know this sounds odd, but this really works. In the evening when the rooms upstairs are hot, open up the downstairs completely, doors and windows, and put fans on the windowsills upstairs and point them to the outside...... they blow the hot air that has accumulated to the upstairs outside.

Opening the hatch to the attic can help cool a house down of an evening.

Fan onto cot with a muslin pegged to cot to avoid direct blast.

@Feellikedancingyeah we got ours from Argos.

www.argos.co.uk/product/8873600?clickSR=slp:term:air%20conditioner:1:15:1

It’s brilliant. We just stick the pipe out the window and pull the blind down over it. Doesn’t look nice but does the job.

I second aircon. We got ours from screwfix but you can find them in lot of places. It's now on in the kids' room and once they go to bed we move it to our bedroom. After bedtime we have a fan on.

Right. Some good suggestions there. I think I'll have a look at a cheap little aircon unit. Amazon/Argos jobby.

Thanks everyone

fill a few two litre bottles up with water and freeze them, when frozen stick them in front of a fan and close all the doors and it should cool off. This is exactly how air con works. Obviously don’t let baby sleep with a fan pointing in them.

Agree with pps about keeping curtains/blinds drawn until sun almost down, then throw open all the windows and doors to allow hot air to escape and cooler air to enter.

I also pop a couple 2L water bottles in our freezer. At night, I put on a fan, and put a frozen bottle in front of the fan, acts like an air conditioner without the cost.

I also remember reading somewhere that SIDS is far less likely to occur in a room with a fan blowing for whatever reason.

No idea if it's true, maybe something to do with overheating? But I always kept a couple of moving fans blowing in the room since then (indirectly).

My routine is - although mine is 7 and my 11 can sort themselves out! But would be similar when they were babies

Blinds closed during day to stop sun

Window open until they go to bed

Door open to let cooler ‘draft‘ circulate from other bedroom/bathroom windows that are open

Sometimes a t-shirt and blanket just over legs, but when it’s this hot just underpants.

When they were babies probably a vest and nappy in this heat.

It’s awful in this heat