Hi Everyone,
I'm looking for some opinions here on what my 5 month old should sleep in. Right now where I live in Florida it is 25 degrees. Trust me when I say this, this is cold for here! We have central heat, but unfortunately our son's rooms are on the opposite side of the house from the actual unit. So in winter their rooms are colder and warmer in summer. My 5 month old has been sleeping in a regular cotton knit footie pajamas. But it is so cold in his room and he is so cold when I check on him (plus he is fighting a cold right now). I don't want to use a blanket while he sleeps bc he likes to put anything over his face (burp cloths, etc). I tried putting him a flannel pajama set but he woke up absolutely drenched in sweat two nights in a row. There is nothing in between the cotton and flannel for me to buy him as I live in a very rural part of Florida. So what I'm asking is, do you think I can layer him to sleep in? I thought about putting a onesie and socks on and then putting the cotton pajamas over that? Does anyone else do this? Any other suggestions? Thanks in advance!
Wal-mart has tons of the fleece footie pajamas. We have the same problem for my daughter's room. The fleece has been doing a great job keeping her warm. I usually put socks on her feet before putting the jammies on.
Sure you can layer for bedtime. I live in Montana, and when my son was a baby we always did a cotton onsie under his jammies, except in the summer when it was warm at night. I would add socks if it was really chilly, and we also used a zip-up sleepsack rather than a blanket to keep him cozy. It seemed to work well for us. Good luck!
I layer! I'm in Texas but it's cold here too. I put cotton long sleeve onesie, cotton "yoga" pants and socks, then cotton footie jammies, then a sleep sack over that. I prefer cotton layers so that my little one's skin can "breath" and she won't get too warm, like she might with polyester. Why don't you get on Babies R Us.com or diapers.com and order some warmer jammies or a sleep sack and have them shipped? You can't go wrong with those sleep sacks ...I've used them on both kids, my 3 year old still sleeps in hers. They're great for keeping them warm AND preventing them from climbing out of the crib later.
I still layer my son's pjs and he is almost 3 1/2. He will not keep blankets on him at night and will wake up and cry for me to cover him up. So I put cotton pants and long sleeve pjs then once it is bed time I add a pair of footie fleece pjs. Sometime if it is really cold he has a nice soft beanie that he wears to bed.
Yes, layer with a onsie or t shirt under the 1 piece sleeper. Sleepsacks are available in fleece or cotton knit. It is well worth having the sleepsack in the winter. You can order online if you need to but most bigger stores carry them.
I honestly think if you were sleeping in that room you would find a way to block some vents so that some of the heat would be going into your room. I would move him into a different room or in with me until the colder temps are over.
My oldest's room is the furtherest from the unit and it is very hot in our room. We put old magazines over the vents and in the bathroom too. To get heat in her room we block off the vents in the kitchen, the living room and the play room. I let her sleep with us most of the time though because it is still too chilly and I am not comfortable in there so why should I expect her to be.
The sleep sacks would be a good idea to try. You said he's been sick. Was he running a fever and was breaking the fever thus the sweat? It may not have been him overheating in the pajamas because of the weight of the material but because of the fever. I have heard of people layering. I always had to put socks on one of my sons' feet under his pajamas for the first few months because his feet always got cold. I never had to put anything else though. I didn't have to do it with my other 2 kids either.
I would get a thermometer for his room to see what temperature you're getting in there. This simple thing helped me figure out what I needed to set the thermostat for at night and what best worked pajama-wise for the kids at night. I got a neat one made by Vicks that also tells you what the humidity is in the room. It's a digital readout.
Close off some of the vents in the warmer parts of the house, closer to the thermostat, partway so more of the air goes to the colder rooms also helps.
You can buy an electric crib mattress warmer (it turns off and on during the night and will keep him feeling warm). Also, I would dress him in a onsie, then fleece footie pajamas, then a fleece sleep sack over that.
Up here in the frozen tundra known as Michigan, I put my daughter in layers for bedtime - that means an undershirt or t-shirt with the jammies plus socks. She is 3 now, but when she was a baby we did the onesie under the jammies plus socks, and we had her in a sleep sack that acted like a blanket, zipped up the front with her head out, and no way for anything to get over her face.
in michigan.. my babies slept in a onsie tee shirt and cotton knit pjs and a halo sleepsack.. ( a wearable blanket.)
the sleepsacks come in fleece and lighter weight cotton.. you should be able to get one at target or walmart or babiesrus.
If your baby is a sound sleeper you could swaddle him after he is asleep.
