Help! Staying with in laws & temp dropped to 12/13 deg

[Trillian42]

DD is used to a balmy 17deg as I have heating come on several times during the night at home. That's not an option here. She wears a grobag and I had a cellular blanket over her but it obviously wasn't enough so she came into bed with us. The only way she'd sleep was lying on top of my bare chest (breastfed baby) which was also the warmest place. 3 hours with an 11kg baby wasnt the most comfortable. The gro bags literature really emphasises not using a duvet over it or else I would have put a lightweight one on her.

So stressed, both she & I are sick. I'm on antibiotics but she's not- doc said to keep an eye on her cough as currently a viral infection as opposed to mine which developed. I'm really worried. Short of buying an oil filled rad this morning, is there anything I can do?

Ps She's 18mths so not a newborn, thankfully.

At 18 months 13 deg shouldn't be a problem. If you don't want to put a duvet over the grow bag, can you layer her up under it? And remember, cold hands are ok, check her body temp inside the covers.

I should have mentioned, she's in a fleecy sleep suit & a long sleeved vest so I don't think I could put anything else on her. She was awake for 2 hrs during the night, & the only thing I could think of was the cold? Her chest was cool alright.

Get a cheap fleece sleep suit over her pyjamus and under the gro bag

More likely to be unsettled by being away from home I should think,none of mine have ever settled away for the first couple of nights anyway.For what it's worth she sounds very overdressed even for that temperature,mine would definitely have been warm enough

DD (3.5 months) is in a grobag with long sleeved vest and sleepsuit. Our room sometimes gets down to 12 degrees but has been 14-15 mostly. I have a doubled over sheet plus several blankets to keep her warm. I know the advice for grobags is to use nothing on top but I don't see the problem as long as they don't overheat. At 18 months it could be as much about sleeping somewhere new as the temp being a bit lower

I have put a cardigan or hoodless jumper on my babies before as well as the grobag if really cold and a hat. It maybe her cold waking her though if she feels rotten.

Sounds to me like it could be the strange surroundings rather than the temperature tbh. How do people cope in old houses with log fires and no central heating?

We can't sleep in our house if the heating is on - it gets far too hot and we're awake all night so it drops to around the same temp. DS is 13 months and has long PJs, 4.5 tog grobag and i put a blanket over him when we go to bed and the heating goes off. If very cold i loosely drape two blankets over him. He's snug as a bug and sleeps like a.... well, a baby! And he's a little boy who tends to feel the cold so he'd certainly let me know if he wasn't warm enough.

The only other thing i can suggestif you still think it's the cold is that you ask the in laws if they have an ambient heater for the room with a thermostat so it only comes on when the temp drops.

I took my DD at 18 months to my aunts, it was 11 degrees in the bedroom. She slept under a duvet in her sleepsuit+fleecy suit. They can have a duvet from 12 months.

The only issue is kicking the duvet off. If her tummy is warm she is ok BTW, even if her hands/face are cold.

She probably is sleeping better on you because she is ill, in unfamiliar surroundings and wants the comfort, as sandwiched in the middle of you she would have been warm enough.

If she has a cough that can keep them awake, humidity is the key so steam inhalation before bed, saline nasal spray, vapour rub etc... If they have the heating on earlier in the eve, put a cup of water on bedroom radiator to increase humidity in room.

Thanks all, couldn't get a moment to view answers til now. I'm not sure about her not feeling the cold though- surely if she's used to 17deg, that much of a drop would be a shock?

Answering on phone so can't reply in depth to all, but many thanks. I was frozen last night despite 13tog duvet so maybe I'm projecting. It's a bit warmer tonight so fingers crossed all is ok. If it was my parents I could be more open about it, but I'm kind of stuck here- 1st Xmas here etc.