What does your baby wear to bed?

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Now it's getting cooler at night, I have a dilemma over DD's nightwear - I don't want her to get too hot in the early part of the night, nor too cold in the later part of the night. A chance comment by a Mum friend of mine about what her son wears to bed got me wondering whether DD (5 1/2 months) is waking up because I keep her too cool at night!

(It doesn't help that my wall thermometer regularly measures the temperature in DD's room as 3 degrees C higher than her baby monitor!)

So I'd really appreciate any feedback about what your DC wears at night: vest/sleepsuit/pyjamas/grobag/blankets/sheets etc, and what temperature their room is.

Thanks!

When ds was smaller I tried to stick to the 16 degree rule using heating and cooling as appropriate to keep at this temp. In this temp I then put him in cotton or wool dome up and sleep suit and grobag with a light blanket over top. Now he is older (1, he doesnt have the temp exact and I dress him according to the nite in question, usually erring on the side of cooler as I was told that babies will wake to tell you they are too cold but not when they are too hot and they can then overheat and get dehydrated.

when my ds was 5 1/2mths it was last january and he wore and sleepsuit cotton/ with a bunny suit as i call them, all in one fleece thing and he was in a 2.5tog sleeping bag, it was cold then.

presently now 14mths he is back in te sleep suit and sleeping bag but not the fleeceyet.

My DS is six months and his room is currently measuring about 22 degrees at night. He goes to bed in a long sleeve vest, a 2.5 tog growbag and a cellular blanket over the top. When I go to bed, if I think the room feels cool (and I don't take any notice of the thermometer, just what I feel) I add another blanket as he started to wake in the night and he always felt cold.

HTH