Anonymous
Post 01/25/2022 10:18     Subject: Re:60 or 78 degrees for baby’s room temperature?
78 with a window open enough to cool the room to low/mid 70s. If you have a Nanit (I think this was mentioned) or some other thermometer in baby's room, check the temp a couple times a night. Is this an option OP?
Anonymous
Post 01/25/2022 10:16     Subject: Re:60 or 78 degrees for baby’s room temperature?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:You cannot let the baby sleep in there, OP! It could be deadly for him. Put him in your room and you sleep in his.


Deadly?


Too warm is a risk for SIDS.


And yet somehow babies survived summers before air conditioners…



Actually not all babies did survive, you idiot, hence the warning.


Then pick 60, which is a very normal sleeping temperature.
Anonymous
Post 01/25/2022 09:10     Subject: 60 or 78 degrees for baby’s room temperature?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I have a younger child and a similar issue (lol at everyone who thinks the massive corporation I rent from will even slightly care). I go with the cold option and double swaddle like they do in the hospital. I’m planning to ask my ped for advice about switching to the sleep sack in a few weeks but my guess is that I will layer: cotton pjs, fleece pjs, fleece sleep sack. Baby also sleeps next to me (again lol at the assumption that this isn’t true in my entire apartment) and wakes up a couple times a night so I keep a close eye — in the double swaddle he’s never too hot or cold. Per my ped, the best way to tell too hot/too cold for a swaddled baby (before it’s a medical emergency or ever that uncomfortable for the child): If their neck is sweaty, too hot. If hands or feet feel cold: too cold.


I have heard the opposite with regards to baby being too cold due to their poor circulation. Hands and feet are notoriously cold even if baby’s trunk is warm. So check the back of the neck or the chest/trunk to make sure baby is a comfortable temp (hot or cold).


My guess is I got this advice because baby is still swaddled so hands/feet should be equally warm. I did get told to check neck for too hot (and firm advice that the neck should NEVER be warm enough to be sweaty) so I imagine it’ll be the same for too cold once we transition to the sleep sack. But yeah, if hands and feet are out, they’re not a great temperature sensor.
Anonymous
Post 01/25/2022 08:45     Subject: Re:60 or 78 degrees for baby’s room temperature?
Sorry OP, it stinks that you have to deal with this. Whatever you do, maybe baby can sleep in your room until it's a little older just so you can keep an eye on how they react to the temperature.
Anonymous
Post 01/25/2022 08:33     Subject: 60 or 78 degrees for baby’s room temperature?
The most important way to keep a baby warm in this situation is to keep a hat on all the time. Just a simple cotton baby hat will do indoors. Babies' surface area is mostly head, and they lose the majority of heat through their heads, so if they are cold they will spend most of their food energy trying to stay warm. We had a preemie in the winter who was not gaining weight. The doctor told us to put a hat on at all times, and then the baby started to gain and was back in the growth chart within a month.
Anonymous
Post 01/25/2022 08:24     Subject: 60 or 78 degrees for baby’s room temperature?
Anonymous wrote:I have a younger child and a similar issue (lol at everyone who thinks the massive corporation I rent from will even slightly care). I go with the cold option and double swaddle like they do in the hospital. I’m planning to ask my ped for advice about switching to the sleep sack in a few weeks but my guess is that I will layer: cotton pjs, fleece pjs, fleece sleep sack. Baby also sleeps next to me (again lol at the assumption that this isn’t true in my entire apartment) and wakes up a couple times a night so I keep a close eye — in the double swaddle he’s never too hot or cold. Per my ped, the best way to tell too hot/too cold for a swaddled baby (before it’s a medical emergency or ever that uncomfortable for the child): If their neck is sweaty, too hot. If hands or feet feel cold: too cold.


I have heard the opposite with regards to baby being too cold due to their poor circulation. Hands and feet are notoriously cold even if baby’s trunk is warm. So check the back of the neck or the chest/trunk to make sure baby is a comfortable temp (hot or cold).
Anonymous
Post 01/25/2022 07:19     Subject: Re:60 or 78 degrees for baby’s room temperature?
Get a space heater. And know that there is a lot of runway before you get to a $450 space heater.
Anonymous
Post 01/25/2022 06:02     Subject: Re:60 or 78 degrees for baby’s room temperature?
58 is just toooo cold. I wouldn’t be comfortable with it.

Many people today live without central air and their babies sleep in warm rooms in the summer. I’d go with 78 with just a onesie on and a fan until you can figure out a safe space heater solution.
Anonymous
Post 01/25/2022 05:41     Subject: 60 or 78 degrees for baby’s room temperature?
Anonymous wrote:I have a younger child and a similar issue (lol at everyone who thinks the massive corporation I rent from will even slightly care). I go with the cold option and double swaddle like they do in the hospital. I’m planning to ask my ped for advice about switching to the sleep sack in a few weeks but my guess is that I will layer: cotton pjs, fleece pjs, fleece sleep sack. Baby also sleeps next to me (again lol at the assumption that this isn’t true in my entire apartment) and wakes up a couple times a night so I keep a close eye — in the double swaddle he’s never too hot or cold. Per my ped, the best way to tell too hot/too cold for a swaddled baby (before it’s a medical emergency or ever that uncomfortable for the child): If their neck is sweaty, too hot. If hands or feet feel cold: too cold.


Same PP — I would also add that I choose this because it means there’s a consistent temperature all night. If I got with the hotter option, the temperature is much more variable in my case. If you can get a consistent temp with heat on and window cracked, I would go with that.
Anonymous
Post 01/25/2022 05:39     Subject: 60 or 78 degrees for baby’s room temperature?
I have a younger child and a similar issue (lol at everyone who thinks the massive corporation I rent from will even slightly care). I go with the cold option and double swaddle like they do in the hospital. I’m planning to ask my ped for advice about switching to the sleep sack in a few weeks but my guess is that I will layer: cotton pjs, fleece pjs, fleece sleep sack. Baby also sleeps next to me (again lol at the assumption that this isn’t true in my entire apartment) and wakes up a couple times a night so I keep a close eye — in the double swaddle he’s never too hot or cold. Per my ped, the best way to tell too hot/too cold for a swaddled baby (before it’s a medical emergency or ever that uncomfortable for the child): If their neck is sweaty, too hot. If hands or feet feel cold: too cold.
Anonymous
Post 01/24/2022 23:40     Subject: 60 or 78 degrees for baby’s room temperature?
Heat off. Get a space heater and run it for the couple of hours before bedtime. Unplug it once baby is in the room. Keep the door closed to keep the warm air in.
Anonymous
Post 01/24/2022 23:06     Subject: 60 or 78 degrees for baby’s room temperature?
Anonymous wrote:For a baby, 68-72 is formally recommended. Period.
Ask your pediatrician.

Call the pediatrician tomorrow. Then email the landlord. SP
Anonymous
Post 01/24/2022 23:03     Subject: Re:60 or 78 degrees for baby’s room temperature?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:You cannot let the baby sleep in there, OP! It could be deadly for him. Put him in your room and you sleep in his.


Deadly?


Too warm is a risk for SIDS.


And yet somehow babies survived summers before air conditioners…


Fewer of them survived...
Anonymous
Post 01/24/2022 23:03     Subject: Re:60 or 78 degrees for baby’s room temperature?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:You cannot let the baby sleep in there, OP! It could be deadly for him. Put him in your room and you sleep in his.


Deadly?


Too warm is a risk for SIDS.


And yet somehow babies survived summers before air conditioners…



Actually not all babies did survive, you idiot, hence the warning.
Anonymous
Post 01/24/2022 23:02     Subject: 60 or 78 degrees for baby’s room temperature?
Are you euro or something?? Why are you letting your landlord get away with this?