Do you need to heat babies bedroom?

**nicoleE** · 13-06-2008 21:29

It seems allot of people heat their kids bedrooms...

We live in Adelaide and it can get quite cold, the temp reading in DDs (8months) bedroom is about 16oC tonight. She is in a singlet, fleecy jumpsuit and has 5 thin rugs on her and seems like she should be warm enough (she feels warm to touch when she wakes up).. but she wakes allot overnight and has been worse lately and im wondering if she could be cold? I mean her head is obviously uncovered and she normally sleeps with her hands out and occasionally wiggles out of her blankets a few inches...

I wasnt planning to heat her room (we have ducted heating so isnt practical unless we get a single heater)...
............ is it recommended?
............. are there other things i should be thinking about such as will she get more colds from breathing in the cold air or something?

thanks

**~Temet Nosce~** · 13-06-2008 21:55

Its about 3 degrees here tonight.. and we have just moved into a new house that has really high ceilings, and is weatherboard, so is naturally cold. I have an oil heater on in her room, she is in flannelete pjs, a snug suit, woolen blanket, thermal blanket. Her room would be ice without the heater.

**Milliner** · 13-06-2008 21:59

I would just get a sleeping bag. I'm not a big fan of heating while sleeping.

**loveshack** · 13-06-2008 22:03

Hi there!
DD was around 7-8 months when she went through her first winter.She used to wake up around 1-2 times at night,but when the cold started,I found her waking up even when she wasn't hungry.I thought she might be cold (night temps in winter here vary between 6 and 10 degrees).So we got an oil heater for her room,and set the timer to switch off for 15 mins. every hour.It's on until she wakes up,but our power bill has more than doubled since then! I can't see a way out though,because we don't have ducted heating and we're renting, and I don't think she can bear really low temps at such a young age.

**Cordelia** · 13-06-2008 22:04

DD's room is freezing so I put a heater on about an hour before she goes to sleep to take the chill off the room. (turn it off when we go to bed which means she wakes in the morning when it cools down.)

**Chunkydunks** · 13-06-2008 22:07

DS was born in Canberra so the first few months of his life were very chilly. We heated his room because other wise he was awake all night. And I even put a little cotton hat on him to keep his head warm. Most nights in his cradle he'd be in a body suit, wondersuit (with socks under it), swaddled in a flannalette blanket, in his sleeping bag (and I mean a baby size sleeping bag like an adult one....can you still buy these cos that one was mine as a bub?) and then if it was particularly cold I'd fold up a cot quilt and put that over him. Our house wasn't insulated so if the temp was -7 outside chances were in was only a couple of degrees warmer inside.

**punkbaby** · 13-06-2008 22:09

I dont. I will sometimes heat the room to take off the edge before putting her in there (my room) but never had it going why we are or why shes in there

**Del247** · 13-06-2008 22:23

Hi NicoleE! I would suggest you look at investing in a Grobag sleeping bag. There are a bit more expensive but they last a long time and are SIDs approved which many of the other cheaper sleeping bags aren't. The come in different togs (which is a rating on how cold the weather is etc) so you would need a 2.5 tog for winter which is the highest. 0.5 tog is the lightest weight bag which is used for the summer months. I highly recommend them as my little boy sleeps soundly with one. You don't use any other blankets with them and bub will sleep snug as a bug without wriggling out from under the covers!

Goodluck!

**jayisa02** · 13-06-2008 23:49

yes we have a heater on in the kids rooms and in ours often. DD is also in a sleeping bag but no blankets as i dont like her getting tangled in them. She is not too hot/cold and sleeps all night

**coogeemum** · 14-06-2008 16:10

I use an oil heater on almost the lowest setting in DS's room, and put him in a 2.5 tog Grobag sleepsuit, with singlet and cotton PJ's underneath. The oil heater keeps his room at 18 degrees most of the night, sometimes it has dropped to 15 degrees by 5am. I do it for peace of mind. It takes the guess work out of what to dress him in overnight.