whats the right temp for a baby?

[jeanini]

hi mt 16 wk old dd2 nearly always has a temp of about 36.9 under the armpit with a digital thermometer.

but my hv says anything above 37.0 is a fever. dd2 also has temp of 37.1 and 37.2.

im sure nothing is wrong with her. she has been dribbling and putting her fist in her mouth a lot so cld be teething. but her temp has always been above 36.8.

i took her to have 2nd lot of jabs and because i said she felt hot and had temp 37.2 they wouldnt do the injections.

theyve booked her in for next wk but i reckon she will still have the same temp.

help is this normal? xx

if your baby nearly always has a temp of 36.9 then that's her normal temp and you use that as a base to judge fever

HVs are in general idiots

anything above 38 I would say is a raised temp

I would start to calpol at about 38.5

anything over 39 and I'd intersperse calpol and nurofen

HTH

This is what I learned with ds: Anything above 37.5 is a raised temp, above 38.0 is a fever, which in a young baby means medical attention.

At 37.2 I wouldn't worry. (However, armpit readings are less accurate than mouth or rectal ones).