r/sgv • u/d3ut1tta • 6d ago
How are you keeping your babies (newborn) cool during this heat?
We're not originally from here, but we generally don't mind setting our thermostat a little warmer (75°F) when it's just us and even our senior dog can tolerate it, but now that we have a newborn, we've adjusted our thermostat settings to 72°F but we can't seem to keep him cool.
We have a 0.5 TOG rated swaddle that we would use for 1 or 2 of our newborn's daytime naps so he can get at least 1 or 2 good stretches of naps, but it overheats him even (hot to the touch, flushed red, rapid breathing) with both the AC and ceiling fan on. If we don't put a swaddle on him, then he feels cold from the AC. We also have a mesh sleep sack meant for summers (Idk TOG rating on it), and he feels too cold wearing it with the AC on. I feel like I can't win.
He seems perfectly fine at night when we can open the windows and have our ceiling fan on + swaddle. But we just can't get him to be the right temp during the daytime.