My boy (10 months old) has this dear blanky. It's this fleecy, soft thing. Well, he HAS to have it to fall asleep, and sometimes when he falls asleep he wakes up and there is seriously a wet spot of sweat of the blanket he's been sleeping on the size of his head! And his hair is all plastered to his head :( I try to move his blanket after he's asleep, but he always manages to end up with it all around his head again. Is it normal for him to sweat this much? I am in disbelief! It's just his head, nowhere else. And his little cheeks get all rosy.
All my kids could be rented out as portable space heaters when they were younger than three. You think that's bad wait till they are a little older and want to cuddle. You peal them off and find a sweat puddle.
I miss those days mind you but it was a little wet,
I think that I would remove the blanket entirely after he falls asleep. If I went in and checked my baby and she had a blanket wrapped all around her head, I would freak out! The recommended age for putting a blanket in the crib while sleeping is at least 12 mos. I would hold off on the all nighters with the blanket until he is a little older.
Yep! My two girls were actually MORE sweaty than their brother. My 2yo who still enjos her daily nap makes a huge wet spot from her head on her sheets despite me not even covering her with a blanket. I call my sweaty babies "little furnaces".
Haha--I thought that you asked if BARBIES sweat this much! Lol--(you can tell i have 2 girls!) anyways, yes, BABIES do sweat alot! ;) My DD #2 sweats way more than DD #1
Oh, I love that! All of my babies got all sweaty when they slept. I can always tell when they were falling asleep because they would become very pale and start sweating. I think it's normal. It's how their body regulates temperature. Enjoy that sweaty little guy!
I've heard it's pretty common. Next Dr. visit ask your ped and see what he or she has to say.
my twins are 10 months old. when C was a newborn up until about 3 months old he would sweat so much we would have to change his clothes a few times a day. especially if we swaddled him. if you swaddled him within 20 minutes tops the whole blanket was wet with sweat. I thought something was wrong with him but the doc seemed okay with it. now he hardly ever sweats, unless we are going somewhere and he is in his carseat for very long.
Both of my kids have been sweat hogs since birth. My son is 3.5 years and still wakes up every morning with his pillow soaked, it's disgusting. It was worse when he was a baby though. Same with my daughter, only we don't have to buy her new pillows every few months. She has a big (toddler bed comforter) that is her "blankie" it goes everywhere with her. One side is silk, so her face and head always get hot and sweaty when she is sleeping.
My oldest nephew was a sweatball! He would soak a huge ring on the pillow all around his head...we were freaked by it too but it was nothing!
*His softspot took way longer to close than what was average or normal so we doubly worried but alas they were not related or a big deal at all!
We still Joke about it now...fifteen years later!
It depends on the kid. My daughter is three months old and wakes up with a soaking wet head with the hair all plastered.
Oh yeah, especially when nursing, they would leave sweat marks all over me. As for the blanket, try and transition his lovely to a silky one for less sweating. It's always good to have 2 lovies, in case one gets lost or needs to be washed last minute. Also, remove the blanket when he sleeps, less chance of sids/suffocation.
It's the "brown fat".
Infants can't shiver yet, so they have the extra layer of "brown fat" on top of their normal fat, mostly centered on their upper back. It has that LOVELY name for obvious reasons, but it gets that color because it's highly vascularized. You only find that layer on arctic and ocean mammals and human infants. Keeps 'em ALL warm.
'Course, that means that in 'normal' temps... they sweat a lot to cool down. It's a LOT easier for babies to sweat to cool off. So they do it. A lot.
As soon as you notice your baby start to shiver, the sweating will decrease as well... because the brown fat starts to dissipate as their muscles become capable of shivering.
