Babies Arms cold in the night, please help!

[Luna23]

The weather in the last week has obviously been really hot in the UK, so when we go to bed the room temp is red on both the GroEgg’s (paranoid about safe sleep and one not working correctly). Most nights we have putting our LO in a short sleeved vest and 1.5 tog sleeping bag because our room is so hard to cool down and he has been fine, but today I’ve woken up and his arms are freezing!

I know it’s okay for hands to be cold if the chest is warm but what about the arms? (His chest is warm btw).

What are you dressing your LO’s in at the minute?

It’s so hard to know if the temp inside is going to drop during the night, but I don’t want to risk him overheating by putting him in too much when we go to bed when the room is really hot!

He is sleeping through the night now, so I don’t have the night time feeds to do a temp check, apart from setting a alarm to regularly check him in the night, I’m it sure what to do.

TIA

Freezing arms are fine. enjoy the sleeping through while it lasts. I hated how my other half overdressed baby for sleep.

As long as henot waking because he's cold then he's fine.

He is fine. If he was too cold, he would wake up.

How old is he?

Rather than feeling his arms do you feel the back of his neck? That's a better indicator.

As PP have said if he's too cold he will wake up. If he's too hot he may not.

In this weather I used to have mine sleeping in just a short sleeved vest and no sleeping bag - the gro bag would come back out when it was cooler.

Two gro eggs? Is there a reason you're so anxious? You know if it's too hot or not by whether you're hot or not surely?

Our room is 24 degrees at the moment and my LO is sleeping in a 0.5 tog and nothing else.

Have you got this gro.co.uk/download/grobag-wear-guide/

All babies are different in this scenario. When my almost two year old daughters room is 24° she wears a short sleeve vest with 1.0 grobag. And long sleeve when it's between 20 and 23°

However, her room last night was 25.4° so she just went in a nappy and the 1.0 grobag and window slightly ajar..

I read sometime before that aslong as their core is warm their arms are fine.

My baby is just in a vest and cellular blanket (that she kicks off)

If he is sleeping through (I’m very jealous btw) then he is not too cold.

A cold baby will wake up so it's not bothering him! My LO has been in a strappy vest and 1.5 tog sleeping bag, our room starts at 24/5 and drops to 22. Tonight though it's 27 and she's just in a vest with a muslin over her legs, when she wakes for her feed at 2/3am I'll check the temp and transfer to sleeping bag if it's 23 or below.

Mine is currently going to bed in a pair of cotton button up pyjamas (these were a present), long sleeved vest a cotton jersey pyjama bottoms (we never had the tops) or a thin baby grow with no vest. She starts the night with a thin blanket.
I dont know the temp of the room, I just go on how she feels.

Thanks everyone for your replies! You have all put my mind at rest, that if he was too cold he would wake up. I just felt so guilty this morning when his little arms were so cold. He’s just turned 4 months so he’s not a tiny one anymore but I still really worry about the safe sleep every night (first baby). I think it was drilled into me so much when I was pregnant, that it’s made me really paranoid and I’m now second guessing my common sense!

Reason I have two GroEggs is because we bought one before my son was born and was given another one as a gift. We had one upstairs and one downstairs, but the one upstairs I wasn’t sure was saying the correct temp. The room to me didn’t feel as hot as it said it was, so I bought the other one up to check how accurate it was, and it’s stayed there ever since.