warm baby in cold nights

Hi,

I just wondered how other mums keep their young babies warm at night now its got cold. Clothing, bedding, heating???

My babies 10weeks old and im wondering if im doing enough.

Thanks :)

We try to warm the house and add blankets rather than adding too many layers of clothing to DS2 (8 weeks) as he is prone to getting a nasty heat rash on his skin. We're lucky that we have heat pumps that we can set to any temp we like (although try to use sparingly to save power). We are in Wellington and it's been curiously warm the last couple of days, so he has just been in a single layer of clothing (sleepsuit) plus blankets (one light merino, one wool and then a heavier one to weight the others down). When it gets colder we will probably add a shortsleeved bodysuit under the sleepsuit.

With DS1 we were swaddling (DS2 hates it) so he just wore a shortsleeved bodysuit under the swaddle as he got the same heat rash. If it was really cold we might add a light blanket.

ETA - I was always told that we tend to overdress/overheat babies so I err on the side of less rather than more, especially with those recent stories in the media about babies overheating to death. With DS1 my midwife said "a cold baby will wake you up to tell you they are cold. A hot baby won't". Scare a new mum much???

Edited by pumpkino

Also the merino under body suits you can get at baby factory are good being merino to regulate body temperature you dont want to overheat your little one either. But give a sleeping bag ago I found my daughter started sleeping through the night when I started using them. :-)

Thanks for all the replies. Were up in Palmy with no insulation and a heater panel in her room. She has a vest and body suit then into a swaddle/bat suit with a blanket over her. She just felt cold last night and no she doesnt tell me when shes overheating but shes never told me when shes cold either!?!? I try and keep her room at no lower then 19degrees but she still felt cold, well her hands and nose.

i've got one cold boy, one self-heating boy. i've got thermostats in their rooms and oil-column heaters. i keep them at different temps and they have different layers of clothes/bedding.

sleeping bags are great because they don't kick off the blankets.