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Overnight Temperature for Newborn
My wife and I are adopting a baby and we get to bring him home from
the hospital tomorrow. We just found out on Thursday, so we've been running at full speed trying to get everything ready. I think we've got all the basics covered. I'm a little concerned because our thermostat goes down to 62 degrees overnight. This is, of course, fine for me and my wife, but maybe not so good for the baby. Should I up it a little bit so the baby doesn't freeze overnight? Truth be told, we only have a few more cold days (low of 24 tomorrow night). Thanks in advance, Bill |
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Overnight Temperature for Newborn
My wife and I are adopting a baby and we get to bring him home from
the hospital tomorrow. We just found out on Thursday, so we've been running at full speed trying to get everything ready. I think we've got all the basics covered. I'm a little concerned because our thermostat goes down to 62 degrees overnight. This is, of course, fine for me and my wife, but maybe not so good for the baby. Should I up it a little bit so the baby doesn't freeze overnight? Truth be told, we only have a few more cold days (low of 24 tomorrow night). I pretty sure that 18 deg Celcius was what was recommended when I had mine, I tapped that in to get the fahrenheit and it's 64, so you should be fine, getting over heated is much more of a risk than being too cold. Having said that, shortly after my sun was born we had a major heat wave, even overnight, the temp didn't fall below 70s, and in a climate where that is unusual, we didn't have air conditioning, an increase in death rate was reported in France at the time, but it wasn't babies, it was older people. Parent's just stripped their babies down to their nappies and they did fine. Because of the way the risk is, I prefer to have a baby get too cold, but it's literally been twice that I've had a child wake in the night because they were too cold. Anne |
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On Apr 7, 3:28 pm, Puester wrote:
wrote: My wife and I are adopting a baby and we get to bring him home from the hospital tomorrow. We just found out on Thursday, so we've been running at full speed trying to get everything ready. I think we've got all the basics covered. I'm a little concerned because our thermostat goes down to 62 degrees overnight. This is, of course, fine for me and my wife, but maybe not so good for the baby. Should I up it a little bit so the baby doesn't freeze overnight? Truth be told, we only have a few more cold days (low of 24 tomorrow night). Dr Sears and a few others recommend 70F all year. Our thermostat *says* 66 or 68F, however with our 12ft ceilings, open pier-and-beam foundation and very thin layer of wood flooring, and beds closer to the floor than to the ceiling, I *know* it's closer to 62F near our bed, if we're lucky. Since temp regulation is so wonky in our house, I didn't feel comfortable with DD in a crib without me there to check on temperature, so we kept her in bed with us. Now, we co-sleep anyway, but were just starting to move her into the crib when the cold snap hit, so we kept the co-sleeping longer. I would up it, at least to 66F or so, use a sleep sack (altho her arms were always cold), but leave off a hat and socks, esp. if you swaddle. Thanks in advance, Bill Congratulations! I'd bump up the thermostat to 65 degrees at night. The baby will probably be wrapped pretty well, but a baby doesn't have the metabolism to keep itself warm that an adult has. A hint: even in summer, keep something on the baby's feet like socks at night. Cold feet wake babies up even when there's nothing else wrong. The author of Happiest Baby on the Block and Dr. Sears (I think) say not to put socks on the baby if they're being swaddled, that over- heating is a common problem parents make. Apparently babies are better off waking up if too cold than at risk of SIDS if too warm. That said, we usually have DD in footed pajamas in winter, but in the warmer months left her feet free (and she hates having socks on). Lately we've been using the footed pajamas but leave off the snap near the feet, so she can kick her feet out - she doesn't even like having a blanket over her feet. She's weird. |
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Overnight Temperature for Newborn
I'm really late to this thread... but I think
the proper overnight temperature is people temp, i.e., 98 degress Fahrenheit... next to mommy or daddy. But, that does not work for everybody. the room temperature is still relevant, possibly even more so, I'd definitely err on the low side of the range for cosleeping. Anne |
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