Dressing babies in HOT weather

[Eledamorena]

Thinking ahead here as I'm pregnant and need to plan a bit. I live in SE Asia so the temp rarely dips below 30 degrees and is often over 40. High humidity.

Indoors we use a/c at night and very occasionally during the day. Public places e.g. shops always have a/c, often set to quite cool. This has been fine for us and DCs.

Now expecting another and feel a bit lost on how you dress/wrap a newborn/young baby in these conditions! We have lived in pretty extreme climates before when our oldest was small but we arrived in winter so she was 6 months + by the time we had to deal with the heat.

Locals here seem to put new babies in hats, clothes, and a blanket when out and about, but I suppose in a/c this would be necessary. But when actually outside or getting into a car before it has cooled down this would be crazy!

I'm not sure what I'm asking really... I'm confident once the baby is say 6 months but when they're tiny I feel a bit unsure. Should I expect to just strip them off whenever we go out and wrap them up again whenever we go indoors?! I will have to use a sling a lot as many places here are not suitable for prams or pushchairs, so also considering that.

Any mums here who have had small babies in hot, humid locations got any tips???

Thanks!

We live in the ME and had two babies here as newborns here.

One in April when it was heating up and one in December.

My April baby I dressed in baby grows and took blankets for the mall when we went. When he was around 3 months I used to have him in just a vest/short romper.

My December baby was vest/babygrow blanket as needed.

Layers - you can take them off as you need to and add them!

We live in Singapore.

When my DD2 was a newborn, I mostly dressed her in short-sleeved bodysuits and socks, then I'd pop a pair of leggings on if we went into a mall, for a drive, etc. I found that she ran quite hot and used to get cross after any time outdoors so most of her napping was inside (long-sleeved babygro for comfort).

Her temperature seemed to normalise after a few months. She is very active now at 1yo and still spends most of her time, even indoors, in a t-shirt and shorts or a romper. I only ever put leggings on if we are going to soft play!

Go for what the locals do.

Normally useless information alert - your sweat glands develop differently in different climates. We are all born with the same number but not all produce sweat, people born in and spending their first 2 years in a hot climate will develop more 'switched on' sweat glands.

I dressed ds in shortie all in ones.

Took cotton hats and blanket for when in A/c places. Easy to just have in the pram and out over and pull back as necessary.

Thanks for comments. All sensible! I'm a tad wary of doing as the locals do as this sometimes goes against my instincts... for example in Latin America they were appalled if my DD wasn't wearing socks when it was over 20 degrees, which for a Brit is positively toasty, hang-about-in-your-pants weather

Interesting about sweat glands, I didn't know that. Explains why my son, who came to Asia at 9 months old, is such a very sweaty boy haha!!!

Interesting about sweat glands

Thank you, as I said it's usually useless information, something my brain seems to collect.

The sweat glands that do not produce sweat have some role in healing but it hasn't been discovered exactly what that is yet.