7 month old room is 26degrees help

[SallyCinnamon3009]

Hi just wondering if anyone has any tips. Grow egg in my 7 month old DS room is showing 26.3 it's gone bright red and got the sad face on so room is far too warm. Currently go both windows in the room open plus every other window in the flat open.

I don't have anywhere else he can sleep in the flat so he has to go in this room- anyone any top tips on how to cool a room quickly or what I'm best putting him in to sleep. Last night I did vest and 1.5 tog gro bag. Was debating just the grow bag tonight

I’d do just vest if I were you. Gro bags don’t make nappies stay put in the same way a vest does.

Don’t worry - he will be absolutely fine.

Just a vest, he doesn't need the gro bag, do you have a fan? The little electric heaters often have a cold fan setting i'd you have one of those.

If you have a fan, stuck a bowl with some ice cubes in front of it so it blows the cold air around the room.

Get a fan?

Best not move to India, Australia, or anywhere else more than a few miles south of UK then.

Just a vest, or just a sleep suit if he will get cold extremities.

Have you got a fan? Put ice in a bowl in front of it to cool the air.

Try propping your front door open a inch or two it helps the air circulate to cool things down a bit quicker.
My mum advised me this for my roasting hot flat one year and now I always do it Cos it makes such a difference- and my front door is on 10th floor to a communal enclosed area not outside and it still helped!

If you dont have a fan you can hang wet washing in there to help it cool, or wet a couple of muslins and hang them by the window, as any air that passes through them will cool a bit. I'd start in just a vest, the temp might drop once the sun goes down

You could hang a damp muslin in front of the open window (not completely blocking any breeze) to help cool the air coming in. Just a vest to sleep. If it's really hot here (Canada so hits 40° in summer) I give mine a damp muslin to cover them/cuddle, the evaporation helps cool them.

Thanks so much for everyone's advice I thought I had heard something re the cold muslins in the window and just remembered I bought a fan last year too so I'll get the ice cubes out. Thanks

Cross post with Almost :-)

Best not move to India, Australia, or anywhere else more than a few miles south of the UK then.

...where houses are built totally differently to deal with the climate and usually have air con, you mean?

Definitely just the vest and no Grobag

My son was born in June 2003. We had an incredibly long very hot summer. It was above 30-35 degrees every night for weeks (or that's how I remember it) I was terrified.

Please don't worry. Your baby will be fine. I'd go for a vest only and if he won't sleep put the GroBag on. Damp muslin and a fan are great but some babies hate fans.

He will be fine.

Best not move to India, Australia, or anywhere else more than a few miles south of the UK then.

...where houses are built totally differently to deal with the climate and usually have air con, you mean? grinconfused

How do you think anyone coped before the invention of a/c? Don't get me wrong, I appreciate that UK houses are built to retain heat leading them to feel pin pricklingly hot on the odd few hot days each summer, but come on now.

Honestly that's really not that hot .
Just use less layers.
These threads baffle me.
It's literally just common sense and babies live in much hotter climates

where houses are built totally differently to deal with the climate and usually have air con, you mean?

Not poor people's

And only fairly recently.

Just put them in a vest to sleep and check on them.

Herat/Stoke... I was mostly being facetious towards PPs ridiculously unhelpful comment towards OP.

Heat stroke in 26c ?

anxiousmumma no-one wrote heat stroke.

OP Hope you & your little one got some sleep. Some good advice on the thread about how to cool the room down. Shame about the unhelpful ones.