https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Thu, 09 Apr 2026 01:27:57 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-keep-you-los-room-at-68-72-degrees#post-1555212 Tue, 08 Apr 2014 21:04:58 +0000 lady grey 1555212@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrs. wagon: thanks, good idea. We have a humidifier in his room now but I never thought of putting cold water in it! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-keep-you-los-room-at-68-72-degrees#post-1555202 Tue, 08 Apr 2014 21:00:21 +0000 regberadaisy 1555202@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My LO runs really hot and refuses to use her blanket. I def obsessed with the temp when she was younger. We keep it at 68 and put a fleece sleeper in the winter. Her room is the coldest room in the house. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-keep-you-los-room-at-68-72-degrees#post-1555200 Tue, 08 Apr 2014 20:58:35 +0000 CupQuakeWalk 1555200@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Seattlemom: yes! lol. I had something along those lines in highschool when I moved to the basement of our house and there wasn't sufficient a/c down there. It worked well but they are LOUD. Granted, it can be in place of the white noise. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-keep-you-los-room-at-68-72-degrees#post-1553712 Tue, 08 Apr 2014 11:50:34 +0000 mrs. wagon 1553712@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>When our A/C couldn't keep up, I'd keep an oscillating fan in an opposite corner of the room and his humidifier is on all night as his white noise. It's not cool mist, it's evaporation, but if you fill it with cool water, it does cool the room a good bit. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-keep-you-los-room-at-68-72-degrees#post-1553589 Tue, 08 Apr 2014 11:22:18 +0000 lady grey 1553589@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@birdofafeather, @cupquakewalk: Thanks guys! I do have a thermometer in the room to help me keep track of the temp, but I know our house gets well over 75 degrees inside in the summer. I'm just not sure a fan will be enough....thankfully LO will be close to 12 months by the time this is a real concern. But my cousin died of "SIDS"(unknown causes in her sleep) at 22 months so I am just really freaked about this stuff.</p> <p>Have either of you ever used a portable a/c unit that doesn't have to be attached to a window, like this:</p> <p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/SF-609-Portable-Evaporative-Cooler-Ionizer/dp/B000R48G5K/ref=lp_1193678_1_9?s=home-garden&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1396973972&#038;sr=1-9" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/SF-609-Portable-Evaporative-Cooler-Ionizer/dp/B000R48G5K/ref=lp_1193678_1_9?s=home-garden&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1396973972&#038;sr=1-9</a> </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-keep-you-los-room-at-68-72-degrees#post-1552489 Tue, 08 Apr 2014 00:11:58 +0000 CupQuakeWalk 1552489@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Seattlemom: I was obsessed with temp until he got to be about 13-15 months old. I still care but I'm just not obsessed, because I've noticed he will wake up whining if he gets too cold/hot at this age.<br /> My advice:<br /> Get an oscillating fan and point it away from LO. Not only does it cool the room down, but it also creates air circulation because you mentioned you have the door closed and the area is small.<br /> Also: get a thermometer. Our monitor has one built in so I can see it all night...it even beeps of the temp gets too high/low.<br /> Lastly, if you can't control the temp: control the clothing you put LO in:) some nights, he would sleep in a diaper and an A&amp;A blanket. </p> [attach=2389/14/n3p561.500x500.image.jpg] https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-keep-you-los-room-at-68-72-degrees#post-1552467 Mon, 07 Apr 2014 23:34:16 +0000 birdofafeather 1552467@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>we bought this: <a href="http://www.diapers.com/p/productname-81697" rel="nofollow">http://www.diapers.com/p/productname-81697</a> (which apparently has bad reviews, but we have had it for about a year and it's worked well for us!)</p> <p>we live in a drafty bungalow with no central heat and no air. we installed a ceiling fan last summer and that, along with the black out curtains and the thermometer to track the temp, helped us to keep her cool enough. when it got super hot, she slept in a diaper only. i didn't worry about getting the room to 72 because it just wasn't gonna happen without A/C. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-keep-you-los-room-at-68-72-degrees#post-1552450 Mon, 07 Apr 2014 23:13:22 +0000 lady grey 1552450@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Ok, so I've been a little obsessed with monitoring the temperature in my LO's room to help reduce the risk of SIDS. He was born last June and slept in a co sleeper in our room for 5 months, so last summer I could keep a close eye on the temp in the room and make sure he wasn't getting too hot.</p> <p>Now he's 10 months old, sleeps in his own room with black out curtains and white noise going all night. Our tiny rental house doesn't have central heating/cooling and I just can't figure out how to make sure his room doesn't get too hot this summer when he is sleeping. I need to be able to close his door so I can do dishes and chores and such. But I know its going to get really hot and stuffy in there. Over the winter we had to use a space heater in his room to make sure it didn't get too cold. But for summer I just don't know what to do.</p> <p>Who else lives in a small old house and has advice for me??! </p>