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Nursery temperature - help!

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littlemel · 10/09/2004 17:01

Can anyone answer this for me? I havent actually given birth yet but am due any day now, and am worried about the temperature of our room for when we bring the baby home. It is usually between 23 - 25 degrees (with the windows open) and I have heard that at maximum it should be 20 degrees. so now i am really worried about it being too hot for the baby - any suggestions/advice? what about bedding and clothing i.e how much/how little??!!
any advice much appreciated!! thanks x

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littlemel · 10/09/2004 17:13

Yes im in the UK, it's just this horrible muggy weather I think!! Don't know how they cope in hot countries when it's miles hotter than that during the night!
Thanks for advice - I know it sounds stupid but I wasnt sure if it was ok for them just to be wearing a nappy! I dont know a thing about babies, I'm terrible!!

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Hulababy · 10/09/2004 17:31

Our apartment is always hot (so was the flat we had before) and the bedrooms are rarely below 20 degrees, even in the winter. DD used to sleep in her nappy and then just a high summer growbag.

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muddaofsuburbia · 10/09/2004 17:47

Hi Littlemel

My son (ds) was born this time 2 years ago (he was 2 on Wed - time flies) and it was muggy and hot when we brought him home. It was 27 deg in his nursery for the first 2 weeks and I honestly thought he would fry (he didn't). I kept him in a bodysuit and a nappy and swaddled (tightly wrapped) him in a cotton sheet for sleeps.

Maybe consider having a fan in the room?

Good luck with the arrival of your little one. Ds was the first baby I'd ever held so don't panic about knowing about babies - s/he is your baby and he or she has never been here before so she or he won't know about mummies either

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littlemel · 10/09/2004 17:50

Thanks muddaofsuburbia! It helps to know someone else had the same dilema! Good idea about the fan! Never thought of that one!

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sweetkitty · 10/09/2004 17:56

poor DD has all these lovely clothes but wears vests most of the time, I've got a thermometer in the room she sleeps in and it was at 27-20deg most of the summer.

don't worry midwife told me babies are born in really hot countries all the time and they do fine

good luck

edam · 10/09/2004 19:03

littlemel, had same fears last year when ds was born in the middle of a heatwave. put him down in just his nappy and left the fan on until we came to bed. didn't leave it on all night though. he lived!

kbaby · 12/09/2004 14:09

Hi,
I thought the same as you as our bedrooms are also really warm.We also have the added problem that the windows are velux as we live in a converted bungalow, this meant we couldnt keep the windows open at night as our cats used to climb through them. We invested in a blackout blind with heat reflective coating on. Even with those though it was still 27c during the summer. What we did was keep dd downstairs in the moses basket until it got later and then took her upstairs and put a fan on in her room. I dress her in just a vest and a summer grobag. If it was cooler id just put a long sleeve vest on. Some nights it was too hot and so id sleep with dd in the living room where it was cooler.

Caribbeanqueen · 12/09/2004 14:47

Hi, I had dd in a hot country and the bedroom temperature was never below 26/27 and very humid. I was like you and panicked like mad before I gave birth - and afterwards too! But there was nothing we could do, just put her down to sleep in a one-piece - no sleeves or legs and had a fan in the room. She was fine and now we have a room which doesn't fall below about 23/24 and she's still fine.

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