Heated mattress pad for 9 year old

[Anonymous]

My 9 yo feels really cold at night. He sleeps in 2 pjs with 2 blankets and still feels cold. His bed is against an exterior wall so that part can get quite cold. Sadly the orientation of the room doesn't allow for the bed to be placed elsewhere. I don't want to turn up the heat too high cause he gets a nosebleed from the dry heat.
I was thinking about a heated electric mattress pad but am worried about safety. Any one use it for their child?

[Anonymous]

Turn up heat and get a humidifier.

[Anonymous]

What sort of blankets are you using? Wool blankets should help.

[Anonymous]

Our heating didn't work for months and I bought German hot water bottles for everyone (Fashy brand - very good). We're European, and use hot water bottles regularly, but are more suspicious of electric blankets. I think it's the reverse for Americans?

Anyway, my son, also 9, gets cold easily, and I bought the warmest down comforter on the Pottery Barn website, with a flannel sheet set, and we have cashmere or lambswool blankets to top it all off.

If you get a hot water bottle, put nearly boiling water inside, make sure to let the air out, close it well, and get one with a fleecy cover, since the quality of the cover determines the rate at which the bottle will lose heat.

[Anonymous]

How about a heavy winter duvet with a flannel cover? I have a lot of problems with getting easily cold, and mine keeps me warm.

Maybe a warm shower right before bedtime, then climb in? You could even heat the bed up with an electric blanket then take the blanket off just before your DC gets in bed? Suggest adding flannel sheets, warm socks, and warm pjs for extra heat.

A heated mattress seems excessive.

[Anonymous]

I love my electric heating pad, but I wouldn't be comfortable with a 9yo using it. Definitely get flannel sheets, heavyweight duvet, and some wool blankets. I like the hot water bottle idea too!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Our heating didn't work for months and I bought German hot water bottles for everyone (Fashy brand - very good). We're European, and use hot water bottles regularly, but are more suspicious of electric blankets. I think it's the reverse for Americans?

Anyway, my son, also 9, gets cold easily, and I bought the warmest down comforter on the Pottery Barn website, with a flannel sheet set, and we have cashmere or lambswool blankets to top it all off.

If you get a hot water bottle, put nearly boiling water inside, make sure to let the air out, close it well, and get one with a fleecy cover, since the quality of the cover determines the rate at which the bottle will lose heat.

NP here-- now I want a hot water bottle! Sounds wonderful!

[Anonymous]

Yes, get a fashy hot water bottle. They are great. My son likes his room cold and when I walk in it's freezing in there. OP can you move the bed just 6-12 inches away from the wall. That should help some. I would not do electric heating pad or blanket either. I think raising the heat and getting a good humidifier is key (but don't make it too humid--dust mites and other things breed in humidity). We got a Swiss something or other brand online last year that works well. Another thing that makes a huge diff for warmth is a little sleeping hat! That way you can drop one of the pairs of PJs. Socks also help.

[Anonymous]

OP here. Thanks for the responses. Q: how does your child use the hw bottle? Do the hug it? Do you place it in the bed to warm up sheets before they get into bed?
And where do you get child size cashmere sheets

[Anonymous]

Electric heating pad -- yes.... they turn off after 60 min.

Electric mattress pad or blanket -- probably not.

I LOVE my heating pad (paid $25 last winter) and I bought both kids (one is 8 and one is 11) heating pads for Xmas this year. They love them. So nice to have something warm heating up the sheets. That is probably all your child needs -- something to get the heat started under the covers when they are cold. If your child really is cold all night, then you need to put up some barriers on those windows (the plastic sheeting that seals around it or some kind of weather stripping?) or maybe fuzzy socks and fleecy pjs.

The $25 heating pads are great! (I usually check on the kids before I go to bed and I pull the heating pads out of their beds so they aren't lying on/near them all night... they aren't "on" or warm by that time, but they can make you sweaty b/c they are plastic under the cover of the pad).

[Anonymous]

i slept with my heating pad last night and fell asleep with it on .turns out it shuts off automatically after 20 min.

[Anonymous]

Microfleece sheets, down comforter, wool socks

I'm always freezing and this is what works for me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Turn up heat and get a humidifier.

this.

[Anonymous]

All my kids have them and no problems. Heated mattress pads are the best thing ever! They are low voltage - what is the concern? Ours have automatic shut off at 10 or 12 hours.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Turn up heat and get a humidifier.

+1

And if you can, add insulation to the walls. U will lose approx 2 ft of room space if u don't dig out anything and just add a wood frame, insulate and then put in a gypsum board.