What did your neborn sleep in?

I just brought my babies home last week and am curious what yours sleep in. Our house isn't the warmest, usually somewhere between 68-70 degrees. I have been dressing them in a onesie with either a gown or footed sleeper and then swaddle them in a light weight receiving blanket. I have also been using little knit hats but they don't seem to stay on very well. While pregnant I bought sleep sacks but they are way too huge for them right now? I worry about over/under dressing them. How long do you think I need to keep hats on them? Swaddle them at night?

 

after they came home from the hospital I never put hats on them unless we were going outside...

 

I put them in a onesie, a gown, and swaddled them. This was in the summer of course, but our house was kept around 74 at night. Congratulations!

 

Mine home during the summer, but we had the A/C on in the house and kept it around 68/70. We would keep them in onsies, swaddled with thsoe knit hats, it the hat came off then so be it, but I normally started with the hats on. I swaddled until they were 4+ months.

 

We never used hats and they slept in plain white short sleeve onesies and miracle blankets (swaddle).

Amy

 

At that age we put them in a gown and then a kiddopotamus fleece swaddler, and they always stayed toasty warm. Now that they are bigger we still use the gowns along with a fleece sleep sack (halo or the carters brand with the arms) and they stay toasty warm. We keep our heat set on 65 at night, so it gets pretty chilly (we used to keep in on 60 before the babies came).

 

Our room was pretty warm so a onesie(long sleeved) and a flannel swaddle blanket and always a hat.

 

Sleep gown, and then swaddled in a waffle weave blanket under a Swaddle-Me from kiddopotamus. I never put hats on them inside. Our house is about 70 degrees, but the nursery seems just a bit cooler sometimes. We are working on getting rid of the swaddles, and then we'll go with a onesie under a flannel or fleece sleep sack.

 

Mine slept in a longsleeve onsie and a swaddle blanket.

 

onesies and swaddles for us!

 

onesie and gown then swaddle no hats our house kept at 60-65 at night

 

Usually they are in a onesie and a swaddle me blanket. They can't keep hats on, so we only use hats when we have to take them out.

 

We used the swaddle me blankets for the first 4 months and then switched to the sleep sacks. They seemed to work great!

 

Welcome home!! I am also in the Northeast, and have a pretty cool house, and I would dress them in a onesie, gown, flannel receiving blanket to swaddle and a knit cap from the hospital. I agree, the caps don't stay on well, but I didn't want to take my chances. In the dead chill of winter, I would then cover them at naptime and bedtime with another blanket. Snug as a bug in a rug.

 

At that age they always had onesie, socks, and a sleeper. Along with being swaddled in a blanket. Always socks! They will be so much warmer with socks. JMO.

 

My girls came home at the end of March and I live in the NE so it was still cold. We keep our house at 70 night and day, but we dressed the girls in a footy sleeper (no onesie underneath), swaddled in a fleece receiving blanket, with a knit hat on, and covered up with an afgan. This is how they did it in the NICU when they were in open cribs so we continued it at home until they got squirmy and I didn't trust them with the afgan on anymore. Mine were also way too tiny for their fleece sleep sacks and they fleece swaddle me blankets.

 

A sleeper. Mine always slept in a sleeper during the cold months. Katie is sleeping in sleepers as well. Also during the summer you can use a sleeper, that way you don't have to put a blanket over them.

I never use a hat unless we were going out in the cold weather.

 

Mine slept in gowns at first and swaddled up. DS did have to wear a hat all the time in the house (we keep our house at 74 year round) b/c he was having trouble keeping his temperature up. They sleep in sleepers now with a blanket on top of them.