What's A Comfortable Room Temp for Babies Sleeping in Just Onesies

I'm ALWAYS cold, so it is hard for me to gauge :nea: It's 75 degrees right now and I'm shivering even with a fleece blanket.

In the winter, we kept the temp at 72 degrees and they wore sleep-and-plays with fleece sleepsacks. So, not really sure what would be best for their summer sleep attire.

 

My kids sleep in cotton sleepers in the summer (their arms and legs are covered). The thermostat is set at about 77 in the summer. That seemed to work well. Right now I still have them in fleece sleepers and the temp in the house is in the low to mid 70s.

 

I think it depends on the baby/kid as well. I've been meaning to ask the same question for some time now.

I set the AC at 76 and they sleep in a cotton sleeper. I think it's a bit too warm for them, so I'll try to lower the temp. tonight again and see if it makes them sleep a bit better.

 

We live in Hawaii, but I always set the A/C between 70-72 degrees. They have always slept in either onesies or footie pjs but still inside fleece sleep sacks. It's freezing in our house or I can't sleep. I figure if my husband & are bundled up under our comforter then they probably need to remain in their sleep sacks.

 

i've always been told it's better for babies to be a little cooler than warmer, but who knows if that's really true? i know my boys had worse reflux and woke up more often if they were too warm. we do cotton footie pajamas and keep the thermostat in the neighborhood of 68-70 degrees. during their first year we dressed them in cotton footie pajamas and also swaddled them, so we let it get a bit cooler than that. if not, we'd sometimes find them sweating in their sleep. :fool:

 

We don't have air conditioning here so, in the summer, I always found they were fine in just a onesie & on really hot nights just a diaper. But any time we visited my parents in Alabama where they have air conditioning I found that, with any air conditioning at all, they needed their arms & legs covered.

 

I agree if the air is running, even set fairly warm, they may need a lightweight sleeper on to cover their legs, or a cotton sleep sack. Just the cooler air across sleep-warmed skin may make them chilly.

I really can't help you on the temp, we keep our house around 64 yr round at night time! Long jammies and 2 blankets are what the twins sleep in, and sometimes they get too warm and throw their blankets off.

 

Mine always wore fleece sleepers and a fleece sleep sack, even in the summer. Thanks to DH's love of our swamp cooler (basically an air conditioner that only works in really dry climates), it's probably colder in our house at night in the summer than it is in the winter.

 

I keep the thermostat at 76 in the summer and 72 in the winter. From March to October mine sleep in a short sleeve t-shirt and diaper (white onesie when they were smaller.) I really only have to use the heater in December and January.

 

I have heard the same thing, but like you have no idea what is true. Though if it was below 70 degrees I would probably dress them in fleece pajamas. We try to keep the nursery temp around 72 degrees in the summer and we dress the boys in cotton footed pajamas. We are BIG fans of The Childrens Place "stretchie" cotton footed sleepers (it is hard to find cotton footed PJs for 12 month and above). If we put them in footless pajamas then sometimes I cover their lower half with a light receiving blanket, especially if the nursery temp is around 70. If it gets up to 74 degrees in the nursery I think it feels stuffy and uncomfortable and I think they tend to have more night wakings then. We have one of those projector clocks that display the time on the ceiling as well as the temp from this thingie you can mount outside. Well I was always wondering what the nursery temp was (because one side of our house is always cooler/warmer than the other side) so we moved that outside unit into their nursery so now I always know the nursery temp when I'm in our bedroom just by looking up at the ceiling