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We do a long-sleeve onesie & sleep sack with no arms (our older child sleeps in just underwear & tshirt. Basically just one thin layer. But we also cool down their rooms in the evenings with fans in the evening & leave the windows cracked open overnight.

Following because I am always wondering if LO is too hot or cold!

We have AC and keep our house at 77/78 in the evening. I've always heard the rule of thumb to dress children in as many layers you're in. DH & I sleep in our underwear under just a sheet, so as a parallel, LO sleeps in thin cotton long-sleeved footed pjs but no sleep sack. He doesn't seem hot or cold. You could check on them 1-2x during the night, for one or two nights, to see if they got hot or cold, and then go from there.

If it was in the 80s I'd probably do just a diaper.

We get a window AC unit because I couldn't figure this out. When it's hot we set the AC to about 70, and she sleeps in shortsleeved Jammies with sheets and a thin cotton quilt. When she was a baby we did cotton Jammies and a cotton sleep sack.

I am in the PNW too. With my first, we just let him sleep in a diaper on those hot nights, and I would place an A&A swaddle on him later in the middle of the night. Then we got A/C before our 2nd was born!

Our house usually goes from low 80s to mid 70s. They usually go to bed sans jammies lately and fall asleep with no blanket or covers. Usually at some point I'll hear them say I'm cold and pull up a blanket or I'll go find it for them since they end up kicking them off their bed initially. We do have fans in their room though. So while the breeze doesn't make them cold initially I guess as the temp drops it does.

I check the overnight temperatures. If it's already 86 in the evening chances are it won't get cool enough overnight to be an issue. As soon as it cools down outside where the temp is lower than inside. We open all the windows and turn all the fAns on. It also helps to use a fan to pull all the out air out in the morning when the temp is the lowest. Then before it gets too hot (8-9am) we close all the windows, blinds and shades to keep the heat out as much as possible.

To be honest when the upstairs is more than 76 my girls can't not fall asleep. It was 77 the other night and 10pm. Both girls were still crying and awake. It finally was cool enough outside that I turned the air on and opened all the windows because it was cooling the upstairs down quicker than the air. I left the nursery door open and had DD1 sleep in our room because it was cooler than her room.

With LO1 we did a summer sleepsack or just a short sleeved PJ and sometimes when insanely hot just a onesie. LO2 still sleeps in Zippydee Zip and wears just a diaper in there when it's hot. I usually do open their windows since it takes a long time to cool the room down. I don't like to have a fan in there for the whole night. (I don't like working them unsupervised).

Depends how hot. Last summer she was typically in a diaper and a swaddle with multiple fans blowing and window open. It was never too cold by morning. Lately she has been in very thin pajamas with window closed and no fans, but last night the temp leaped up and she was roasting, so we took off the pajamas and put her down in just a diaper with three fans blowing and window open. Later we opened her nursery door as well, when we realized it was warmer inside her room than it was outside.

If we keep getting summers like the last few have been, I think everyone is going to buy portable AC and window AC units sooner or later. We may cave this year.

Is it out of the question to just buy a window unit? Around here a small one is less than $150. But then, I live in an area where most people have central air or window ac, even though summer isn't that long.

@bluestriped bee: we also have tough windows (1950s long, narrow, awning-style ones) so we can't use window AC units. When it gets really hot, we blast the portable unit in the bedroom wing (we can close a door between our 3 main floor bedrooms and the living/dining areas) from the time we get home to the time the sun goes down. It doesn't actually make the rooms cool but it makes them tolerable. Once the sun sets, it usually cools right down outside and we switch to fans. DD goes to bed in shorts/tee shirt pjs. When she was little, we had shortie one-pieces we used as pjs on hot nights. She tends to run warm so that has always been enough to keep her comfortable. Her room is at ground level so we don't leave her window open at night.