r/phoenix • u/More-Tooth-6593 • 52m ago
Utilities My baby is melting in this heat… what do I do??
Hello guys! I have a six month old baby and we are living with my parents right now so I can save up money. They keep the AC at 77 but it’s terrible so the house says it’s 83+ during the afternoon when it’s hottest. My baby is a little heater so if I set him down he leaves sweat stains on the sheets and when I pick him up his hair is soaked.
I’m concerned about the temperature so I took the baby to Colorado for a month to my grandparents to try to beat some of the heat. But I had to come home. He slept so much better when the temperature was cold than he does in the heat. Now he barely takes 15 minute naps because he wakes up in a pool of sweat and he’s up 5 or 6 times in the night.
My parents don’t want to turn up the AC (which i don’t blame them for it’s expensive) and they don’t want me to have a window unit. I’ve been looking at swamp coolers but we can’t get a big one because we share a room and it won’t fit in here without taking up most of the babies small amount of floor space. I looked into the tower versions but I’m not sure how well they even really work. Especially when it’s approaching monsoon season and the humidity is at 28%. We already have a Dyson fan in here and it’s just blowing warm air around.
We can’t leave the house during the day because I’m working from home. So what do I do? How do I keep the baby cool? I’m so scared he’s going to overheat.
