Keeping baby warm now nights are cold?

[cupcake78]

Can't afford heating on too often. Baby's roomies on the corner of out house and gets cold fast. Can't afford a heater on every night either.

She's been waking up at 4am and she is cold. Her room is cold (10oc ish). I have to wear long sleeve pj's and a fleecy dressing gown and I'm freezing by the time I'm in back in bed. Once she warms up again she goes back to sleep till the morning.

I put her in a long sleeve vest, baby grow, 2.5tog sleep bag. She stays like this till we go to bed at 10pm. The heating goes off at 8pm. Before I go to bed I add a folded over sheet (2 layers) and a fleece blanket. She was still cold so added a cellular blanket and yet she's still waking up cold. It's not just her hands or face. Her arms, feet and trunk aren't comfortably warm!

So how many layers does she need? She's 4 months.

My HV is thankfully very sensible and thinks although guidelines have a place they are not best practice in every situation! As in her own words we don't all live in mansions with vast amounts of money and house staff.

I see her next week but so far I have tried putting an extra layer under her cot sheet and swapped her blanket for a warmer option of a slightly thicker quilted blanket . She seems much more comfortable tonight (so far, I just gone and ruined it all now haven't i ).

Is there no. Way you could get her into your room? Maybe move your wardrobe into her bedroom and her cot into yours. It should be warmer for you all in one room with the door shut.

Are you entitled to any free insulation? Might be worth checking out

My baby was like this - couldn't sleep unless really quite warm. We put her in a vest + sleep suit + a (real, quite thick 'grandma-knitted') wool cardigan + sleeping bag + often a blanket.

She never overheated. Babies are so different, some are just chilly bods.

But we kept her in our room til 8 months (over winter) for the warmth.

No insulation, not entitled to any benefits/help. Think we hit the squeezed middle who is almost fully squashed .

We've tried thicker blankets and a cardigan and it seems to have worked last night.

Noway will cot fit in our room we have a standard double and a fitted wardrobe and that's it. Its tiny, house been for sale for 2 years

cupcake that sounds really tough. I hate moving house with a passion and having your house for sale for 2 years must be soul destroying. Glad she slept better last night. Is she just waking up once for a feed each night? If so, I'm a tad . Mine woke much more than that.

It is a bit stressful but I try not to think about it to much. She doesn't feed much during the night it's mainly something simple like putting dummy back in and comforting or warming her up.

Ds was murder at sleeping. He didn't sleep through till he was 3 and still wakes up at 5-6 am so I've done my time