Should babies ever wear hats to bed?!

[Flingmoo]

A silly question for you all - you know sleepsuit sets often come with some combination of matching vest, mittens, bib and hat, well are they supposed to wear the hat to bed at night when it's cold weather? Or indoors when they're awake during the day for that matter? Surely the hat isn't meant to be worn outdoors with the sleepsuit as babies normally wear something thicker and more substantial outdoors?!

I get that newborns wear hats indoors but I'm talking about the 3-6 months sets... Or do they just come with the matching hat purely because it's cute?

(Wanting to put DS in his cute teddybear hat and sleepsuit combo but it never seems to be an appropriate time for hats...)

No, its actually dangerous for babies to sleep with hats on. You head is where heat leaves the body and as a baby cannot self regulate it's body heat, you mustn't put a hat on or it may overheat and either have a seizure or worse. You should always take the hat off when you come inside from the cold outside if you leave the baby asleep in the pram also.

No hats to bed is current advice, I believe.
DS only wore those thin hats for the photo op and if we went out on a fairly warm day.

Never. It's a big risk for overheating and therefore SIDS.

I wonder why so many sets come with hats too, because they're bloody useless!

No, but they put them in them when you're in hospital.

I guess sleepsuits with matching hats should go to room 101 along with baby bedding with matching cot bumpers!

I guess I could put the cute matching hats on him when he's poodling around the living room in his sleepsuit on a cold morning before his first nap...?

(Not that desperate to hat him up, honest... Just sad that the poor smiley teddy hat will never get to feel the soft warmth of a baby's head...!)

Dress your baby as you would dress yourself & 1 layer (eg blanket, cosy toes, coat) not folded blanket (that's 2 layers) drives me nuts seeing hatted, mitted, cosy toed, rain covered babies...must be literally cooking

Hats?
Oh those things my DDs removed from the day they learnt to wriggle or wave their arms about.

I do have a picture of DD1 in a sun bonnet, she looks extremely cross. That about sums up her opinion of hats.

drives me nuts seeing hatted, mitted, cosy toed, rain covered babies...must be literally cooking

I know what you mean but I am probably guilty of this to some extent - my baby always looks cosy in hats and blankets now its Autumn. The way I see it, he's just sitting still in his pushchair whereas I'm getting warm by walking.

It's just as bad when its the opposite though. In the space of about 2 minutes the other day in Brighton I saw two babies with completely bare feet in pushchairs - no cosytoe, not even socks! I know their feet don't touch the ground but it seems mean, they'll get chillblains surely.

Took my dd to the supermarket this morning in her sleepsuit with a woollen knitted hoodie. If I'd had a matching hat I suspect she would have worn that and a cardi.

Many parents take babies out in sleep suits.

No, but they put them in them when you're in hospital.

A midwife told me they only recommend doing this for the first 24-48 hours after birth only. Not sure why - maybe the baby can lose a lot of body heat then. Agree the hats in sets are mostly useless! And I only rarely use those nappy covers that come with dresses....