Baby monitor is dropping to 13 overnight - bean is in a long sleeve vest, full sleepsuit, beanpod (m&p dream pod ) then cotbed duvet over - and a fleece blanket over the side of the cot to block out some of the draft. He's still waking up, but that's bad habits again from being ill and coming into our bed - I have little feet to contend with on the inside and outside these nights x

Izzys room had dropped to 14 a week ago or so - so we keep the heating on all night on 18 although her room only goes up to 16 (its a strange room that never gets overly warm - cant wait to move her to front room which is much warmer!)

So with the room around 16/17 she is in sleeveless vest, PJs, 2.5 Purflo bag with arms and a fleecy blanket on top - if I go and check and she feels chilly I add another blanket

we are on 17.5-19 depending on what the mysterious storage heater is up to...eli is wearing a long sleeve vest, sleepsuit, 2.5tog grobag and a knitted blanket loosely over the top - he seems ok (oh, and socks on hands til he dribbles on them haha)

i had to put him in 6-18 month grobag tho (or dreampod) which i think cos its so big on him is a bit draughty...he seems to get sweaty if i put any more on him! the 0-6 month was strangulating him.

maybe im just a cruel mummy! hmmmmmm eli is up about 4 times a night at the moment but was doing that before it got cold

I have to be honest we dont have the heating on at night. Alice has a duvet, wears a vest and long sleeve PJs, she NEVER wakes up because she is cold and more often than not when i check on her she has kicked all her covers off.

she knows how to pull the covers back on to herself cos she does it when she is playing "night nights"


I feel like an incredibly bad parent now!

my bedrooms never seem to drop below 18/19. since having to cavity insulation done, its been great

I should prob get a new thermometer.

Her bedroom ATM is tiny tho so never gets very cold

Don't feel bad Jo - I never have and never will keep the heating on all night, it makes me ill!

The kids rooms get quite warm so the heating goes off as soon as they go to bed and when I go to check on them at around 11 their rooms have usually dropped to around 18/19 so will drop further during the night. I make sure they have plenty of layers on and add an extra blanket when I go to bed but I guess I'm lucky that neither of then ever wake in the night. I sometimes find Thomas lying on top of his covers and it doesn't seem to bother him.

xx

our bedroom is freezing and while Arwyn is always cosy (bodysuit/sleepsuit/2.5tog sleepbag/blanket) her hands are like ice! i've been putting socks on her hands then mittens on top and still no difference

We put our heating on for 2 hours when we go to bed - temperature is 21c, then Simon puts it on again for 4 hours when he goes to work at 6 so its nice and warm when me and Libby get up. I have checked the thermostat when I've gone for a wee or got heartburn tablets and its only dropped down to about 17c.

I'm with Debs though, if we had the heating on all night I would getting a really thick headache xx

Jo don't feel bad - your house probably doesn't get cold like ours at night! Ours is so old and even with the double glazing and extra insulation her room is just cold - it has thinner walls than the front of the house and maybe just due to where it is, but its always a few degrees less than our room!


As soon as she moves to the front room the heating probably wont need to be on!

I too would like to know how to keep hands warm at night!
Last night Flick had babygro, Jammies,slipper socks andwas in a sleeping bag with a little blanket on top.
She was lovely and warm this morning but have tried mittens,gloves,socks and her hands are still like ice
Not that she's bothered, as soon as I get her out of her cot in the mornings she puts her hands straight down the back of my top

Izzys hands get cold quite often but at night if her body is warm enough her hands stay warm enough, so maybe try an extra blanket?

My LO's bedroom has been dropping to about 14oC (the eggs blue anyway) We have the heating on from tea time until he goes to bed at 8pm. We too never keep it on all night cos we all feel dead rough next day with sore throats.

At the mo he's sleeping in a longsleved vest, pj's and his fleece bed jacked/jumper..then his duvet cover. He has been waking recently in the night and thought it could have been the cold, maybe it is - but he's genrally been quick fuddy lately
His hands and feet do tend to get quite cold, but thats quite normal anyway as the body draws all the body heat to the core when asleep

He doesn't feel too cold - yet! And sure the waking is just bad habits.

Am reassured by the 14 deg. Zee - his room just doesn't heat up!! It's on 13 now. Had the heating come on about 7 and we were up and about for 9 and even that made me scratchy throated - plus our heating (if you can call it that) costs a fortune to run - have to have hot water and heating on together or neither work.

If it snows here it might actually heat up a bit - this ice and all day frost isn't good! x

No, Little mans room doesn't seem to heat up either, its only a small room and has a small radiator (about 2ft x 2ft)

Its 1oC here, well outside lol, have just put the heating on full wack, have been resisting all day

oo as the sounds of things im under dressing paige?

her room is beween 18-210c (well the yellow on the egg and the orange)

i dress her in a sleep suit, her sleeping bag (2.5) and her blanket (2.5#) some times one of them fluffy primark ones if its cold.

Happydiee - that sounds perfect for a room of that temp. Its very rare our egg is on orange nower days lol

..or even yellow!

lol oh okie, thats good!

yea we was yucky with paiges room, its only a small box room but its south facing, so as long as its sunny it gets pretty warm in there! but now its been cold the egg is more yellow.. but we couldnt bleed her heating as the thing has broken off, now that its been fixed, (yesterday, also had A new rad in the front room and in our room) the egg was orange!

We keep our heating on 18 through the night, Harry goes to bed in his vest and PJs and his quilt but he kicks his covers off. I've had to put socks on him even with a babygro as his feet get really cold but he won't wear a sleeping bag and hes warm everywhere else xxx

We have been leaving heating on til 10ish and her room seems to be about 17, she wears l/s vest and jammies and last cpl nights had socks n baby legs on. She does have a duvet but wont keep the bleeder on but seems warm enough

we have our heating on all night! i cant stand tyhe room being cold. on a few occasions ive tried putting more clothes on for bed but i hate wearing anything! im a bra and knickers kinda girl! alfies moitor should 21-22degrees and he normally wears a short sleeved vest, baby grow and in a 2.5tog sleeping bag. hes always nice and warm on a morning.

x

happydiee wrote:

oo as the sounds of things im under dressing paige?

her room is beween 18-210c (well the yellow on the egg and the orange)

i dress her in a sleep suit, her sleeping bag (2.5) and her blanket (2.5#) some times one of them fluffy primark ones if its cold.

thats what i'm putting ava in, sometimes a bodysuit underneath, her rooms around 19

Amelia's room is on 21oc at the moment but dropped down to 18oc last night as the heating wasn't on as much as usual. I usually have her in a long sleeved vest and 2.5 Grobag. Last night I popped a waffle blanket over her too and she woke lovely and toasty. I think Amelia is warm blooded like her daddy x

we have a programmable thermostat..so we set it to go down to 17 at night..but also we stoke up the wood stove to get it blazing before bed then set it to slow burn for the night. As a back up..we also have programmable space heaters for the kids rooms..and if the temp dips down..they will come on just to warm it up. I personally love a colder room..but with a warm bed. I cannot sleep if the room is too warm. xx