Is a blanket or sleeping bag necessary when room is 22 degrees?

[Norheen]

My room temperature is 22-23 degrees, is it ok to put my 2 month baby to sleep in a cotton short sleeved vest and cotton onesie with only a muslin cloth draped over her?

Our office at work is 22degrees and I wear clothes but your body temp drops when you sleep so I'd imagine your baby would wake up uncomfortable without a cover.

22 degrees is far too hot to sleep in, especially for a baby, it increases risk of SIDS.

It should be 16-20.

www.nhs.uk/conditions/baby/caring-for-a-newborn/reduce-the-risk-of-sudden-infant-death-syndrome/

I would use a cellular blanket or a thin e.g 1 tog bag. Is it a constant temperature all night?

You get very lightweight bags like 0.5tog for when it's hot.

My baby was born in the summer and this was a pretty normal temperature! Just dress them accordingly.

It's still too hot.

Google baby sleep temperature guide. Lots of helpful pictograms

I can’t do much about the weather! We don’t have AC as don’t most people. Once windows are open there’s nothing more I can do to cool it down so dress them accordingly. It’s not unusual in the summer months.

Where do you live where you're regularly getting 22° overnight in the summer?

This OP appears to be choosing to heat her house to 22° overnight.

And what are you supposed to do in summer? 😂 (I'm getting a sudden flashback to the Gro Egg going red and freaking me out in a heatwave.)

OP, they're are plenty of guides online to show how many layers to use. Some babies didn't get the memo and run warmer or cooler though.

The charts like @Waterlilysunset posted are really helpful, OP. I'm on my second baby and still use them all the time! Also worth investing in some 0.5tog sleep sacks. So light but help keep that sleep association for baby without overheating.

We live in London and only in the middle of winter is our house below 18c. Most summers, it's around 25c overnight. I remember when DD1 was a baby in the middle of a June heatwave sitting with her downstairs and it was 28c at midnight 😱 We are just very observant around the temp and making sure she is dressed accordingly, which can mean just a nappy if that is what is needed.

South East. The overnight temperature isn’t often over 22 degrees of course but inside our house upstairs it is! (See poster above). Only in summer though and we never have the heating on at night anytime of year.

You guys need to open some windows and turn the heating down! 22° is super warm 🥵

Those of us who live in the tropics still have duvets…

They don't have the heating on! @Norheen maybe a fan in the room would help

Same except our room was at least 30 for her first week..! She just wore a nappy.

I’d have a vest, onsie and lightest sleeping bag. At 23 I’d skip the vest.

I don't choose to heat my room 22 degrees, I just live in a flat that is well insulated.

Thanks for advice everyone.

My flat is 22 degrees even with windows open

My house is 22 degrees as well with no heating on my eight month old is in a baby grow and a thin merino wool sleeping bag (we use the bag in the summer so I'm guessing it's 1.5 tog). I will probably change her to a long sleeved vest when the outside temp is a bit warmer.

@Ionut How do you think babies survive in warm countries?! I’m African, so the idea of 22 degrees being considered ‘far too hot’ to sleep in is hilarious to me. It’s clearly a miracle we continue to exist as a continent.

As someone upthread has stated, it’s fine, you just dress accordingly.

We live in a new build and after this spate of warm(ish) weather our bedrooms are 20C now, in the summer they will be consistently 25C or above. When we had that hot spell in 2022, our bedroom didn't get below 30C in a month.

Our room was 22 degrees last night, it has the sun on it all day. We open windows & have no heating on. She slept in a sleepsuit and thin swaddle last night & was fine.

It’s often pretty hard to control in the UK without air con. It remained 28 degrees at night in our room for days when we brought DD home during a heat wave and there was nothing we could do about it (tried opening windows and a fan).

The correct clothing depends on how heavy the sleeping bag is. We used the Love to Dream swaddles so used their clothing guide as a starting point. You can use a sleeping bag with just a vest underneath if it’s hot. Keep in mind the temperature should drop overnight assuming the room has heated up to that temperature during the day rather than due to your heating. Opening the windows for awhile will bring it down a few degrees into the recommended range.

Thanks. I'm actually now using the love to dream swaddle and using their guide to dress her accordingly