Nursery room temperature

[jaabaar]

Hi,

today is my due date... (theoretically!).

I have one silly worry!

How to keep the recomended temperature in the nursery? I do not have a thermostat which switches of when a certain temperature is reached???

I got really paranoid about this temperature thing... on the other hand I think my grandmother who had 8 children in the 1930s did not have any thermometers measuring temperatures in nurseries and all survivied.....

G

You can get a room thermometer to measure the temp in the babies room and if it's too hot you can turn the radiator down to get the required temp, which if I remember(long time ago, my DD is 7 now)is between 18-21 degrees.

Good luck with the birth and the baby, how exciting, today could be the day!

thanks for your reply Pinneaplechunks!
The problem is if I do that I will have to go every hour and adjust the heating. it does not stay stable.

Doesnt look like today is the day..... uffff!

apart from anything else, aren't the SIDS recommendations that they sleep in your room for the first 6m? and you'll know if your bedroom is hot or cold because you are in there....

In our bedroom we never have the heating on when sleeping which brings the temperature too low for a baby. If I switch on the heating and bring it to lets say 18 degrees I will have to check every one hour as the heating does not stop/go down once it reaches 18C.

tbh I think if you are warm enough they will be too, so long as they are dressed / blanketed appropriately. Have you a thermometer? how cold does it get?

it;s meant to be 16 not 18 for sleeping babies anyway.

they advise a temperature of 16-20 degrees for sleeping. We dont have the heating on at night and in the winter it got down to 14 degrees but it never bothered my lo's as they had their sleepsuit, bodysuit and sleeping bag to keep them cozy. I never used an oil filled radiator either.

Hi Seona,

Thanks for sharing. That is what i thought. A few degrees to low would not harm to much as long as clothed accordingly.

G

Ive got a room thermometer, I received it from our local Childrens Centre
It has a tick on the 18-20 mark,
on the back it says quotr 'keep babys room at about 18C'
you can always add a blanket if baby is too cold, and vice versa, remove if too hot.

The problem I have is to keep the temperature constant.

I would have to go and take off and put blanket all the time.

You might well be up every hour anyway

But seriously - don't worry too much about it - make sure they seem warm enough when you pop them down and make sure room not too hot. You don't have to maintain the room at a constant temperature.

Too cold is much better than too hot - they will let you know if they get too cold.