What are your babies sleeping in?

What are you babies sleeping in atm? Our heating is on now on an evening so the rooms about 20 degrees when she goes to bed but drops in the night. She's in a long sleeve vest, sleepsuit (with hands turned over to keep them warm) and a 2.5tog bag and I'm still worrying about her being cold! She's woken up more often in the nifht over the last week and I was wondering if that was why. I can't put a blanket over though because she's already in the "wants everything in her mouth" stage and if she wakes up she'll just grab it and pull it over her face to chew it 🤦‍♀️ and I being over worried?

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We’ve started to use these in cooler nights. Will add an extra layer underneath in winter.
https://www.next.co.uk/style/st418351/d67101#d67101

My bedroom is about 20 degrees and my boy just sleeps in a vest long sleeve sleep suit and 1.5tog sleep bag. When she wakes do you feel her chest? Babies are better cooler than over heating. Xx

@Becky not her chest to be fair no, her arms and hands are always freezing. She's a small baby, born less than 5lb and she's not very chubby so I always worry that she's a colder baby 😅

Hands will always feel cold for a baby always monitor temp from there chest or back that’s where you can tell. If clammy there too hot etc. there’s lots of guides online for how to dress them il send on to see if it helps xx

I use exactly the same as at the moment too 😊

We do long sleeve vest and 2.5tog sleep bag. I went and bought some vests from marks and Spencer’s as they have the ones with the built in mits as I noticed his hands were always freezing!

Our bedroom is 20-22 degrees and she’s in a babygrow and a 1tog sleep bag still.
We tried a 2.5 with a long sleeved vest and she kept waking in the night we put it down to her being too warm.

It looks like I'm definitely being paranoid then 😂 my sister and mum are always telling me they babies are always cold and it got in my head haha

Just a babygrow and 1.5tog sleep bag at the moment. It’s only October I don’t want to go too early with the layers otherwise god knows what we’ll do in January when it’s actually cold 😅

wow you’re a star! I’ve been getting so wound up about vests not having mitts as we’ve been putting my son in just a sleepsuit (purely to cover his hands!) and then his 2.5 tog but I’ve always felt a bit conscious that his legs might get too warm. I didn’t realise we could even get vests with mitts 😂 thank you!

I only happened upon one that was a hand me down - realised it had them and checked where it was from! I got a pack of 5 for 13.50 the other day and a pack of 3 for 9 quid! They’ve been a godsend and no more ice cold hands!

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