To think I'm weird, as DD doesn't sleep in sleepsuits?

[rainybow18]

DD sleeps in sleeping bags, and they have always stated on the packaging what the suggestion is for baby to wear in different temperatures. It rarely suggests a sleepsuit, only if it's really cold, like 16 or 18 degrees I think.

Everyone I know seems to use sleepsuits in sleeping bags though. DD was summer born so I was very worried about overheating early on, but I'm wondering if I'm alone in not using sleepsuits for sleep?

Do those of you who use sleepsuits put a vest underneath too?

YABU - nah not weird, we don't use sleepsuits for sleep either
YANBU - the clue is in the name, why wouldn't you use them for sleep?

Autumn winter and spring - vest , sleep suit & bag

Summer longe sleeved vest and sleeping bag

One always had a vest , with poppers in the crotch, to keep the nappy in place.

Apart from when newborn my DC haven’t slept in sleep suits for the same reason that it’s not often been cold enough based on the gro bag guide. I also found during this past winter that it was easier to put DS in a long sleeve vest and add pj bottoms if he was cold in the night. Since he started pulling himself up I’ve found them to be more of a hazard when he gets up so again easier just to add bottoms

Mid summer just a short sleeved vest or nappy if heatwave. Rest of the year a vest and sleepsuit.

DS (2) wore a long sleeve vest and 2.5 tog sleeping bag all winter. He was fine, woke up toasty and warm every morning. His room is generally around 20 degrees, dropping to around 16/17 overnight.

Is there sleeping bag long sleeved?

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I judge on the weather but I don't consult the guide. Right now using a sleepsuit and vest. Depends on your baby, my first ran very hot and would sweat and get rashes. If baby is not sleeping soundly, they might be too cold.

Mine wore vest and sleepsuit in a sleeping bag unless it was very hot. We don't have heating on overnight ever

We don't put our 21 month old in sleepsuits in her grobag..... depends on temp. If judgy gro egg says it's 20°/21° she wears a long sleeve vest and 2.5 tog.... if it's 7pm and 18/19° I put her in pyjamas and a 2.5 tog as I know it drops overnight and goes blue. She sleeps fine and doesn't really wake up !

I think you just have your house warmer than a lot so you dress your child in less.
The temp drops to less than 16 overnight if the heating isn't on. Do what works for your baby, I've always found my son needs an extra layer than the grobag card suggests.

Sorry we do use a long sleeved vest.

I have often wondered if my gro egg lies, it usually says warmer than we think it is. It says 20-21 in the day usually with the heating on and at night drops to maybe 19-19.5. We have a gro egg upstairs and downstairs. In the super cold depths of winter it would drop to maybe 18 overnight but it's always orange colour wise, and we never have the heating on at night. Our house is old and solid brick so I didn't think it would keep the heat in especially well.

All the charts I've seen for the bags we've had have been like the attached. Maybe my house is very warm

If it works for you then I don't see the issue. Personally we used to use a sleepsuit as vests tended to cause the nappy to leak more often than not, and as a sleep bag isn't tight across the body it used to let cold air in and didn't want her legs getting cold.

My house in winter goes down to 14⁰C. 4 bed detached in Scotland

@rainybow18 last night I was pulling out 3 to 6 month clothes for dd2 and could not understand why I had so many long sleeve vests yet very few baby grows. Then I got the fear. Dd1 I followed chart, did exactly as you say, vest and grobag. Dd2 born in a snow storm have done sleep suits and short sleeve vests. Never even thought about chart. So she's now back into a best and correct weight sleeping bag. Actually slept better!

I always had their arms covered so a long sleeve vest but your house sounds a bit too warm to me, optimum temp is 18, I’d feel stuffy at 21 all day. I put the heating on when it gets to 15 and it comes on for 1.5 hours in a morning and 1.5 hours at tea in winter and we use the fire in the lounge. I can’t sleep if it’s 18 or above.

Your house is warmer then mine, do you have heating on all day? We only use it a for a couple of hours in the morning and again in the evening. We also live in the North, which tends to be a little colder.

Apart from a few months in the summer, my house drops to 18 or less most nights, so we use sleepsuites most of the year. If my house was as warm as yours I'd -turn the heating down- stick with just a vest.

At the moment my son sleeps in footless, long sleeve / leg PJs, no vest and a 2.5 tog sleeping bag (house is 18 at coldest) and then short sleeved PJ and 0.5 bag in the summer. We have a selection of sleeping bags (0.5,1 and 2.5 TOG all are sleeveless) and I choose according to the weather. Mine only wore vests under their sleep suits in the height of winter when our old house would go to 16 at night.

I think the chart errs on advising less layers than either of my babies have liked too. I remember when ds1 was little and kept waking in the night his first winter. He was in the correct layers, tog etc for his room temperature but he just liked it warmer so I put an oil heater in. Slept through again. Same with baths, with ds1 I'd make it exactly 37 degrees as advised and he cried. Made it 39 and he loved it.
Haven't bothered using a gro egg with ds2!

YABU - we've always followed the guidance on the sleeping bag. Our bedroom was between 18 and 20 degrees through most of the winter so she was generally in a bodysuit except on the coldest nights when she was in a sleepsuit but definitely no vest underneath. We're in a flat with other flats on all sides, above and below so I think that makes it warmer than most. She wore sleepsuits in the day up to the end of 0-3 size and now rarely does as she's long and skinny and I got annoyed with how quickly they were outgrown!

Though I feel like YABU and YANBU are the wrong way round!?

@RedHelenB if your youngest is 14 then yes there were sleeping bags around then. (But I understand they passed you by.)

People do seem to think babies always need to be wrapped up warm, and compare to themselves- if they’d be cold in pj’s under a duvet they dress babies warmer.

I learned rapidly that mine were best in the recommended minus a layer. They overheated very quickly. Mostly I’d put a pj top on rather than a vest or sleepsuit as that kept arms and chest warm but still kept them cool. My bedrooms are about 16 deg in winter though.

Like hats. People are obsessed with hats on babies and I was stopped quite a few times and the lack of had commented on. Yet research showed hats were most likely to cause overheating as babies heat regulate through their scalp. Same as in the post natal ward, hot as hell in there and still people asked about hats.

No sleeping bags in my day, so vests, sleepsuits and cellular blankets for my 3. Youngest is now 14

My eldest is 17, and sleeping bags definitely around then and found in m&s, mothercare, tkmaxx etc so not some exotic order from somewhere. I used sleeping bags for all mine, including the eldest.

Tbh @Micah I didn't really look at doing any different for my youngest so you are probably right. Might have suited my eldest if they kept her arms from flailing about and waking her up.