What is suitable clothing at night?!

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Morning everyone!
I'm having a massive dillema on what is appropriate for my 4 week old to wear at night. Our Groegg shows our room at 20-22 degrees and usually she's happy in a sleep suit and short sleeve vest. She kicks her blanket off so we have stopped using it. She's on the smaller side so we can't use the growsnug we got her yet as her head is too small atm 😕
Yesterday before bed she was a little warm (37 degrees) and a little clammy so I put her to bed in just her sleep suit and I've just taken her temperature and its back to 37.4. Her chest and neck are warm.
Everywhere I read I get different answers on what is the right thing. I am terrified she will overheat. I also on the flip side don't want her cold. Any suggestions? 😊

Also to add, both me and my husband run warmer so we try not to let that effect our judgement (though we can comfortably sleep in the room with no duvet) and as a first time mum - I don't want to overworry.

Christ your room is warm! Mine is 16 degrees I’d just try her in her sleep suit with no vest if she was warm with the vest, as long as the temp is constant. I think it’s better they get cold than hot and you can easily add another layer on if she gets a bit cold.

My community midwife advised us to aim for 16 degrees and then layer clothes/sheets etc. if necessary.

I would also try without the vest but try tucking the blanket around the mattress. I'll be honest and say our room was that temperature in August, back then DD wore a short sleeved and legged sleep suit with no vest and two thin cellular blankets on top.

Goodness I'm going back a number of years but we always kept our babies' room at a steady 16 - 18 degrees. I would try and reduce your room temp. Will make all the difference. I always found that my babies needed to feel a slight weight from a blanket to feel settled. Only possible if the room was at an appropriate temp. Clamminess is likely down to the room being too cosy. 💕

Put her in just her vest and see how that works. If she’s still warm then leave her in just a nappy or try and cool down the room in some way. Maybe crack open a window?

Is there any way you can cook the room as that’s in the warm side.

Your room is far too hot. Do you purposely keep it that warm?

That room is way too warm for a baby to sleep in, needs to be under 18.

My house is always between 21-22c.
At that age I done a sleepsuit/baby grow with nothing underneath but tucked a light weight blanket from waist down (id tuck under the mattress not too tight but so that it didnt come off)
Shes now 6months

My bedroom is 19-20 degrees. Over 20 is too warm really. The gro egg goes red over 20 for a reason. 16-18 is optimum but I can’t sleep when its that cold (DH and I run very cold).
My almost 11 week old bed shares with me and wears a short sleeved bodysuit and babygrow but has no blankets as nowhere to tuck them in and sleeping bag no good for cosleeping. She sleeps next to me (I wear warm clothes and have a cellular blanket (no duvet) so gets body heat from me. She’s never hot in the body and has hands like ice.

If they are too cold they will tell you, too warm makes them too sleepy which is dangerous.

I realized I made a typo on my original post - her temperature was 36.4!!!

We absolutely do not purposely keep it this warm. We live in a middle townhouse and even with the heating off it is this warm in this room/top floor - the rest of the rooms downstairs are 16-20, it's just our room/top floor. She was clammy when we were in a room much cooler which is why I took her vest off.

I was really looking for advice from fellow mum's (as a first time mum who sufferers with some anxiety) not to feel like I'm being judged (as a couple responses made me feel like I'm keeping it warm on purpose)... 😔

Open a window.

No one is judging you, it’s not unusual for people to think newborns need a really warm house and as it’s December most people are going to assume that you’ve cranked the heating up on constant to keep your bedroom that warm and advise accordingly.

Op i have literally asked the same question in a different thread. My wee one is only 5 days old it’s a steep learning curve. My DH always moans i keep a cold house so i was shocked to learn our bedroom was sitting at 20 degrees. I had DS in a vest, sleepsuit and blanket and he was damp with sweat if he had been lying in his cot.
Yet the same outfit when he’s lying on me and he’s not sweaty at all which to me makes no sense in my head as he will get a heat off me.
A quick google seems to say that due to babies sleep cycles they tend to sweat a lot so i’m still no further forward so i’m going to ask the midwife when she next visits.
It’s not easy. I just keep telling myself that i’m doing a good job hoping i’ll believe it eventually. As long as everyone if fed and watered at the end of the day and some of us have had a sleep then that’s a good day in my book! x

We always find that we need to dress DS in an extra layer to what the grobag guide suggests (his room is 19 degrees, the gro bag guide suggests a 2.5tog bag and a long sleeved vest - he's wearing a 2.5tog bag, fleecy jammies and a long sleeved vest).

You'll figure it out for her! If she's waking up in the night and feels too cold, then add a layer. If she's happy in just a sleepsuit, then it's fine.

The guide's just a guide, all babies are different - just like adults, me and DH are still using a 4 tog duvet, but mum requires a 13 tog feather one when she visits.