6 month old waking up cold during night

[mrjaz]

Our 6 month old daughter is generally a good sleeper, however, the last few nights she has been waking up cold during the night.

We normally sleep her in a grow bag and a thinish baby grow bag.

At the moment the most effective way to get her back to sleep is to turn the central heating on, if we keep doing this we are going to end up with a big heating bill come the spring.

Her hands are always freezing, as the growbags are sleeveless.

When she was a new born we tried her with a duvet or blanket and she always kicked them off.

The other option we are chewing over is buying a small electric fan heater so we can just turn this on during the night for 10 minutes if she wakes up cold.

Any thoughts or advice would be very much appreciated.

Just pop a cardigan/jumper over the top of her babygro. My DD was always cold in sleeping bags because her arms weren't kept warm.

Use a thicker babygro? Much better than facing around in the middle of the night.

*faffing

Ooh - just remembered, my DD also always had a vest under her babygro as well as as the cardy. She's 9 now and still has an extra layer or two of clothing compared to the rest of the family!!

a quick Google will find you many baby grobags with sleeves - I imagine one of these with a thin babygro underneath will be more than enough? If not have you thought about just an electic heater to heat your room. But at the same time you definately don't want it to be too warm, Maybe get a room themometer - here's a link for grobags with sleeves. Hope this helps. www.ebay.co.uk/itm/like/350889573249?limghlpsr=true&lpid=102&device=c&adtype=pla&crdt=0&ff3=1&ff11=ICEP3.0.0&ff12=67&ff13=80&ff14=102

JL do baby grows with cuffs you turn over to stop babies scratching. These would stop her having chilly paws!

Dd wears a long sleeved vest, a normal or a fleece sleepsuit and a 2.5 tog gro bag and a place a cellular blanket over her as well.

As long as their torso is warm they are fine. Stick a finger down their back or front to check. Cold hands doesn't mean they are cold iykwim.

If you think she needs another layer add a cardi or cellular blanket but just make sure she can't overheat.

Also this from the Gro bag company:

"We believe that Baby Sleep Bags should be sleeveless to aid heat loss and air circulation. (Babies sleeping under traditional blankets rarely sleep with their arms inside). The new British Standard also stipulates that Baby Sleep Bags should be “without sleeves or hoods”. In cooler weather, we recommend long-sleeve bodysuits, in addition to a long-sleeved pyjama top, pyjamas or a sleepsuit."

^"Also this from the Gro bag company:

"We believe that Baby Sleep Bags should be sleeveless to aid heat loss and air circulation. (Babies sleeping under traditional blankets rarely sleep with their arms inside). The new British Standard also stipulates that Baby Sleep Bags should be “without sleeves or hoods”. In cooler weather, we recommend long-sleeve bodysuits, in addition to a long-sleeved pyjama top, pyjamas or a sleepsuit. " ^

Ah, i never knew this. Maybe just a long sleeved vest as well as baby gro then

Grobag make sleepsuits with specially thick sleeves but given how many you would need and the price of them, you'd pay less to turn on the heating.

Or try a cardigan on top of the grobag?

I have a 'cold' baby - now 11 months. Her temp is consistently 35.something using the braun in the ear accurate one - a temp of 38 is massive for her.

Her bedroom is the coldest room in the house by a country mile (north facing, two exterior/non insulated walls, relatively large window area to room area oh and a leaky loft hatch for good measure).

She sleeps in a vest, babygro usually without feet, and a 2.5 tog grobag plus a blanket (or a few depending) on top. We also have an ikea coverlet/quilty thing which sometimes goes over the lower end on really cold nights. The blankets get added as the temp drops - as in we add one when we come up to bed / after the late night feed if she has one, add another if she stirs in the night.

This works for us, but I have friends who has gone for an electric oil filled radiator on a thermostat approach which prevents the room dropping below a certain temp. Blankets are, in my opinion, cheaper

oh but do ignore hand temperature - you need to feel the body - stick your tend down the neckline - hands can be cold but the rest of the baby toasty x

hand not tend damn autocorrect

We have a convector heater from Aldi I think, you could get similar anywhere. We have a minimum temperature set, if it drops to that level, the heater comes on. It's very quiet, you wouldn't even know it was on. It didn't cost that much.

Oh, one thing that works really well is to put a fleece blanket over the cot sheet, it's very effective.

Thank you so much for some great advice.

Will show this to the mrs and put the ideas into practice.