Help - Bedroom too hot!

[SamboM]

My 9 mo dds bedroom is 27 degrees now, has been all night. I have the window and door open and fan going, not changing.

She is wearing a vest with the under-nappy button bit undone and has a special mothercare cool matress. Will she be OK tonight? I gather it's going to be even hotter over the weekend.

The only other option I have is to put her cot in the garage which is lovely and cool, it's in the house and is pretty secure, has a lock and two bolts, but it goes against the grain to put the baby in there!

What do you all do when it gets so hot with little babies?

We have one of those ceiling mounted fans which we just leave on all night. Doesn't necessarily bring the temperature down, but at least keeps the air moving and keeps it comfortable.

I have a fan going in her room, it hasn't changed the temperature though

What we do is when it's cool early morning,open the windows to get the temp down. Then once it's dropped, close windows and curtains and door. Leave like that all day and it stays pretty cool. Then when it's cool late evening, once dds asleep open windows again. Works for us, although they don't get direct sunlight on their room.HTH.

SamboM, I don't think there's much else you can do about the temperature of her room, other than what you're already doing and what Batey has suggested. She should be fine in a vest on her cool mattress. Not sure if you are a fan of sleeping bags, but you can get very lightweight ones 0.5 tog with towelling lining which are excellent for very hot weather. Personally I wouldn't put her in the garage, not because it isn't secure or anything, but she may wake up and be frightened of her strange surroundings?
It's lovely to have the hot weather, but it is hard to keep little ones cool isn't it.

Same with my dd's bedroom.

Last year (when her room reached 30 degrees), I just had her in a summer sleeping bag with nothing underneath. Experimented with no sleeping bag, but she slept better with it and was perfectly alright.

I think your dd will be better off in her warm room rather than the garage. Babies can adjust to heat (how do you think African mothers cope? ) - as long as the air is flowing in her room she will be fine.

I think we're all suffering with this one !

I tend to give DD (9mo) a cool bath before bed and put her down to sleep in a t-shirt and nappy just on top of the sheet, with an electric fan blowing gently on her cot. I also find that puting a small dish of water in front of the fan helps keep the air moist and a little more comfortable.

We have her window open as wide as it will go but it doesn't have much effect as she has a blind and a lined curtain at her window to keep the light out (she is in bed long before darkness falls). So it tends to be stuffier than the other rooms in the house. I also give her a nip of calpol if it is especially hot as both my other kids suffer headaches when the weather hots up, and I think that DD may well suffer the same fate

Dd's room is warm at the moment (about 25 degrees). Like Lucy123, I am a great fan of baby sleeping bags, so at the moment dd is in her high summer bag (0.5 tog). I also have two others - a winter one and a summer one, so maybe I should be on commission for Grobag!

I half unzip the grobag so that ds's legs stick out but his top half is nice and snug. Also, I keep windows open when it's cool and at night and close them and close the curtains during the heat of the day. I ahve a mossie net over the cot to stop the little blighters getting in.
Personally, I don't use a fan as I find that I can't sleep with a fan on me without getting a chill or a headache - so I thought it might be the same for ds.

Just to say, have done what I said below and dds room is at 20 degrees, outside 28 degrees. Yesterday, forgot to do this and it was 27 degrees in their room when they went to bed.

I agree with Batey 0 - keep the windows and blinds shut all day till evening then air it. This is after all what they do abroad. Our house in south facing and we know about sun!

Would agree with other's previous suggestions - nly thing I can add is can you shade her room from the outside to stop the sun getting even to the glass (louvre shutters or sun shade)? Long term, a deciduous tree could help providing shade in the summer, but allowing light in in the winter. Both of these may be impracticable depending on the type of home you have.

Have just put dd to bed in 27 degrees too! She's just got a vest on, I too have a high summer grobag but didn't bother with it tonight. We have the same problem of keeping the room cool, I never open the curtains and the window is open all night and it is still too hot.Never mind, no noises from upstairs so it must feel alright to her!

DS took 1.5 hours to go to sleep tonight. He is currently in nappy only with no covers, window wide open and fan going. He is a real hot bod at the best of times. Will try to follow suggestions for keeping room cool during day.

My DD is in her high summer bag with just her nappy on too, and the windows open a little. She doesn't settle properly witout her bag. She slept well last night after a shaky start and fingers crossed for tonight too. Just me that has to deal with the hot weather problem now - I HATE sleeping when it is hot!