Temperature control

I live in the Northeast and have two 4 month old premies. I've been trying to figure out what temperature to keep the house and how to dress the babies. I'd love to know:

1) What temperature you keep your home during the day? At night?
2) How do you dress your babies for each of these times?

Thanks! And keep warm!!

 

Hi! I'm in the NE too (RI, not too far north ).

We keep the house 70 day and night. If it's a sunny day, we dress the babies a little more lightly, because we have huge windows and the place really warms up. In the daytime, they wear long sleeves & pants, and sometimes an undershirt or a light sweatshirt. DS wears the same at night, but I dress DD more warmly, since she's more sensitive to cold - fuzzy sleeper and long-sleeved undershirt. For naps and night sleep they use fleece sleep sacks.

HTH

 

It's not supercold here, but we do 62 at night (because we have heavy covers). During the day when DH is at work 65. When he comes home 68 until bedtime, because he has asthma and needs warmer air to breathe. On weekends it's 68 all day while he's home. This is the warmest I've ever kept any home, actually.

 

we have the thermostat set on 67 day and night. i usually dress them in onesie under their outfit during the day, at night they are in nightgowns and fleece swaddles. when we go out i have the bundle mes in thr carseat and a hat on their heads.

 

We are down south, but I always keep our inside temp between 68 and 70. 70 is the summer temp and 68 winter temp. I try to keep the girls arms and legs covered. But I dont' bundle them up overly much. I just put a blanket over them unless they have on a sleeper. With a sleeper, I cover only with a very light blanket.

 

hey I am in Mass on RI border and I keep my house about 68 (3rd floor apt so its always toasty from other peoples heat).
At night I keep the girls swaddled and throw a blanket over them because my room is a little cooler because of the humidifier. They usually sleep with nightgowns on and I keep socks on them.
My pedi said always put one more layer on them than I have on myself.

 

1) What temperature you keep your home during the day? At night? Day and night we keep it between 65-70
2) How do you dress your babies for each of these times? During the day I put Katie in a onesie (short or long sleeved) with pants and socks. At night she sleeps in a sleeper with a lightweight blanket.

 

My family must be really cold natured. We keep our house at 75 most of the year. We keep the babies in long sleeves too most of the time.

 

We keep our house around 68 - 70 in the winter. The girls wear footed fleece sleepers all day on most days. When we leave the house, they get a few layers: long sleeved onesie, outfit (usually fleece or something warm), jackets, socks & booties and hats. We also keep a few blankets handy all the time. Even I pretty much always have one on my lap if I'm sitting on the couch.

HTH! ~ Laura

 

We are in MN, and we keep our house at 67/68 day and night. If I had a programmable thermostat, I'd probably keep it cooler during the day when we are gone and slightly cooler at night. But we don't, so there it stays!!

During the day, we keep the kids in short sleeve onsies under long sleeve/long pant outfits. At night, they sleep in a onsie, fleece footie pjs and a sleep sack.

HTH, Suzi

 

I'm in NY and we keep the thermostat set at 70 day and night.

The girls live in footy pj's all the time. Its just easier because they won't keep socks on and the robeez shoes and boots I have for them are still a little big. If we go out, I put a onesie on under the footy pj's, and then they wear their coats, hats and have a fleece blanket over them. If its really cold I put them in their fleece 'snowsuits' that have built in mittens. I have the bundle me's for the car seats, but I've never used them because its usually a quick car trip to some place inside.

 

Thanks all. I am always cold and worried about the babies. But it seems like we are right on track. Though I am amazed at how many people put their babies in outfits--I always keep mine in sleepers. Maybe I'm just lazy!! :lol:

 

Nope, not lazy. Our 'outfits' are all just the new sleepers. I keep the hand-me-down sleepers for nightwear I can't get my head around matching my own tops and bottoms, let alone those of two babies who like to spit up and poop on stuff. My organizational skills, such as they are, don't go there. Also sleepers are so comfy and keep all the parts and pieces covered without effort...yea for sleepers!

 

QUOTE(Zabeta @ Dec 10 2007, 09:54 AM) [snapback]527532[/snapback]
Nope, not lazy. Our 'outfits' are all just the new sleepers. I keep the hand-me-down sleepers for nightwear I can't get my head around matching my own tops and bottoms, let alone those of two babies who like to spit up and poop on stuff. My organizational skills, such as they are, don't go there. Also sleepers are so comfy and keep all the parts and pieces covered without effort...yea for sleepers!


I agree! We do get dressed each morning into a clean 'day time' sleeper and put pj's on each night into a night time sleeper (day time ones usually have collars so they look more like clothes!).

 

I live near buffalo Ny and we keep it at 65 during the day and night but I have a wood burning stove that I have going all day. My ped said the rule of thumb is dress them in a layer more then you ware. So if you are wearing just a sweatshirt, then put them in a onsie and a sweatsheart if you are confrontable.

 

I live in Toronto, Canada and it's cold here. When my babies were little (and still now, most of the time) we kept the house at 23 degrees. That's about 74 degrees in your language, I think. The babies wore sleepers most of the time, with feet and they were swaddled at night. I think the hospital suggested that temp. to us. It worked well for me because I was topless most of the time trying to breast feed two crazy, hungry babies in the early days.

 

QUOTE(moontwins @ Dec 9 2007, 07:04 PM) [snapback]526806[/snapback]
My family must be really cold natured. We keep our house at 75 most of the year. We keep the babies in long sleeves too most of the time.


I am thinking the same thing. We keep ours anywhere from 73 to 75 day and night. And mine still sleep with in cotton pjs and a fleece sleepsack.

Missy

 

Now that it is winter here in Montana we keep our house at 72 during the day and 69 at night. The babies are 9 months old, we dress them in long sleeved shirts and pants and usually a onsie during the day. Heavy pjs with a onsie and a thick blankie at night (they stay under the covers all night... weird i know :blink: ) When we first brought them home it was March and we were having a spring blizzard... I think we kept the house about 70 all the time (you dont want it too warm for SIDS reasons) we put them in a onsie, jammies, swaddled them and covered them with a fleece receiving blanket too.... oh and hats, but that was for newborns. HTH.

 

QUOTE(moontwins @ Dec 9 2007, 07:04 PM) [snapback]526806[/snapback]
My family must be really cold natured. We keep our house at 75 most of the year.


Ditto this for us! We keep the house about 74 during the day and finally are able to decrease the temp to 62 @ night but only because we finally got an electric space heater for the girls room. Even with the heat up, our room would get so hot and their room was so cold, it would actually wake them up.

At night, when we were still swaddling, and it was winter, we actually double swaddled...with light, footed sleepers underneath.

Now at night, I have the girls in onsies, with fleece footed sleepers over and I put socks on their little feet, they always seem to get pretty cold.

During the day it depends, some days it's turtlenecks and overalls or just long sleeves and pants. If the shirts they're wearing have snaps at the crotch, they don't usually get a onsie, but if there's a chance of bellies hangin' out, they get a onsie underneath

 

QUOTE(SusieQ @ Dec 9 2007, 09:20 PM) [snapback]527110[/snapback]
We are in MN, and we keep our house at 67/68 day and night. If I had a programmable thermostat, I'd probably keep it cooler during the day when we are gone and slightly cooler at night. But we don't, so there it stays!!

During the day, we keep the kids in short sleeve onsies under long sleeve/long pant outfits. At night, they sleep in a onsie, fleece footie pjs and a sleep sack.

HTH, Suzi


We are in MN too, and do the exact same thing. Before the babies, we used to really turn our thermostat down at night...when we were really poor right out of college we would turn it down to 58! But with the babies, we keep it warmer than we would normally like. Which leads me to a question:

When CAN you start putting blankets on them at night? 1 year?

 

QUOTE(JenniferTwinMomMinneapolis @ Dec 11 2007, 01:57 AM) [snapback]528614[/snapback]
When CAN you start putting blankets on them at night? 1 year?



I started covering them w/ blankies at about 5 months (after we were done swaddling), but I only used blankets big enough to tuck all the way under the crib mattress and they only came up to about the babies chest. I tested it a few times pulling the blanket myself and I could barely pull it out so I know they couldnt. I have mentioned before my babies dont wiggle at all at night... I dont know why? They are now just covered with a loose blankie at 9 months and are always still covered in the morning when I go in.

 

The first winter after our girls were born (they were born in November), we kept our house at about 67 day and night. DH and I were sweltering and our heating bills were ridiculous, but we just worried about them being cold.

We dressed them in sleepers all the time (mostly because it was so much easier than "daytime" clothes), and swaddled them for naps and nighttime. When it was really cold, we double-swaddled, or tucked a blanket over them in the bouncy seat. We tried to keep hats on them, but gave that up after a few weeks because they just fell off.

Our normal preference is to have it about 65 during the day and 58 at night. We've gone back to doing that now (they sleep in fleece jammies with sleep sacks), unless it's really bitter cold out, in which case the drafts get in and we have to turn up the heat a little.