cold old flat

[logrrl]

Hi this is my first post :O
I know that everyone is cold at the minute, but this is an ongoing problem.
I am really worried because I live in a very cold flat-we have double glazing, central heating, fitted carpets/solid wood floors (over old floorboards) and have a flat above and below, yet out bedroom doesn't get above 14 degrees, with the heating on full blast all day. I am so worried about bringing a little baby/child up in this! Is there anyone else living in a flat/scottish tenement like this that can put my mind at rest or make any recommendations? I am busy getting a nursery ready and looking at buggies and enjoying all the pregnancy fantasies, whilst dressed in thermals with a hot water bottle (and paying scottish hydro electric a pretty penny!!)
Sorry if this post is in the wrong place-if so, please direct me to the right place...

Logrrl - dont have that problem but am sure someone will come along who has had it. I think babies like fairly cool bedrooms anyway (optimum bedroom temp is around 18 degrees) so you just need to layer them up (vest, babygro, fleecy overbaby gro, blanket or grobag etc) to a comfortable temperature. Have you thought about an oil heater in the baby's room/your bedroom to help keep the temperature up at nights when the baby comes?

I had this worry - we live in a drafty Scottish flat - but it didn't turn out to be too bad because as dinky says, you can just add extra layers (and this is a bit safer than a toasty warm house as they are less likely to overheat). When's your baby due? Is it coming in the next couple of weeks?

Baby due in March.

The reason I ask is that it's likely that it'll warm up a bit between now and then. I had DS at the start of April, having worried all through the winter about the temperature. Then when he came home the weather improved anyway so it didn't seem such a big deal, though I did put the heating timer on for a couple of hours over night when it could still be quite chilly.

Thank you, free floating anxiety just lands on me from nowhere sometimes. 18-20 degrees as the ideal temp for a baby's room is an impossibility in my house-summer or winter, so I guess I am going to have to be creative!

We used that temporary double glazing film in our old house in the winter - made a big difference and you can take it down in summer. Not the prettiest, but quite effective!

Hi I lived in a v cold Edinburgh tenement when I had DS. No central heating (just crap storage heater in one room and a "convection" heater (ha) in the bed room. Plus v stylish louvre windows in the bedroom (don;t ask).

Get some really warm curtains - I have these fab ones from John Lewis on almost all my windows and external doors in my house

www.johnlewis.com/3278/Product.aspx

and they really keep out drafts.

Having a baby sleeping in a cool room is healthier. I still have the wee thermometer that comes with the gro bag baby sleeping bag and it gives the clothes that a baby should wear in different room temperatures - 15 degrees looks ok on the scale and the recommended clothing is a long sleeved body suit and a PJ top with a 2.5 tog gro bag. DS would sleep (well I use that term loosely..) in a long sleeve body suit, a baby gro and his gro bag and was always toasty.

I would say 15 bed room would be fine so don't worry far far better than overheated