My 6 month old LO got infection, was coughing yesterday and had a slight fever. I gave him Calpol before taking to bed. He was wearing a long sleeved bodysuit, a sleepsuit and 2.5 tog sleep snuggler (from JoJo Maman bebe).
When he woke around midnight I checked his temperature and it was below 35C.
I was petrified. I then checked the bedroom temperature and found out it dropped from 17C to 14C. Heating in the bedroom is off. The house is over 30 years old and not well insulated. I guess because outdoor temperature was close to 1C, the room temperature dropped so much. It took me couple of hours hugging and covering him with my duvet to get his temperature to over 36 degrees. In the end we co-slept for a few hours.
Today around 7pm the bedroom temperature was already close to 15C. It will probably drop further. So I decided to add 2 extra layers under the sleep snuggler: wooly onesie and cotton jumper and trousers. Now I am not sure maybe wooly onesie is too much?
How do people decide how many layers to add?