How warm is your house?

[cristeen]

I'm just curious what temp you keep your thermostat at with a baby in the house... I've been to 2 homes lately with babies and both of them had me dripping sweat within minutes, temps around mid-70s. We keep the main part of our house at 60 and the room babe and I spend the most time in is about 65.

[Adallae]

68 during the day, we let it drop to 63 at night. That's only because of the cost to heat our house though - when we lived in a smaller apartment I kept the thermostat at 73. I'm always cold.

[CrunchyKnitter]

During the day usually around 72. It's weird, the house I grew up in that would be soooo hot and we had to keep it set around 68, but here 68 would feel sooooo cold. At night I've been bumping it up to 74 b/c DS's room (esp with the fan on) gets the coldest.

[Abraisme]

Our house is generally 70 during the day and 65 at night.

[hildare]

we're at 70 during the day and around 66 at night. i am still cold and dh and i have been round and round about the daytime temp... it's fine when it's nice outside, but if the weather is icky, i want to be warm!

[hakeber]

I live in a tropical climate, and we spend 90% of the day at home naked or in bathing suits, and we sleep naked (dd in a diaper and a swaddling blanket). If air conditioning wrren't so expensive we'd probably keep the house at about 68 degrees (well DH would like it to be about 58, but he's from Scotland, if isn't 40 degrees, he's ALWAYS hot!) But the babies here tend to be bundled up like mad, despite the heat. I was given a quilted, fleece lined sleeper bag for my baby at my work shower...I was perplexed to say the least. I also got some wooly knit hats. We live in the central valley of Costa Rica. It has never been less than 70 degrees outside since we've been here...usually closer to 90.

What are people thinking?

I think my parents (we lived in southern Pennsylvania) kept our house at about 60 in the winter...if we were cold we were told to put on a sweater. I have read that lately many people in the States keep their houses cooler in the summer than they do in winter...which is just MAD!

[mamamillet]

"I have read that lately many people in the States keep their houses cooler in the summer than they do in winter...which is just MAD! "
I don't know how many actually do but it is crazy! I take a sweatshirt with me everywhere in the summer and make sure and wear easily removed layers in the winter!

Oh yeah--usually we kep ours at 68 during the day and 65 at night!

[pumpkin]

We upped the temp to 68 when we had the baby.
Its absolutely miserable.

Our rental is hard to keep stable because the windows and doors are drafty (thank goodness we move soon). Sometimes it drops to around 65. She seems fine. I suspect that next winter we will keep it there or lower on purpose.

When it is over 70 the baby gets bright red and sweaty. The ILs always wonder why she looks so red when we come over. We have to keep explaining that she doesn't like a 78 degree house any more than we do.

The actual thermostat setting varies. We have separate sensors scattered throughout the house and use those to adjust by. At our old house we had to set at 55 to get 65 in the main living spaces, that sort of thing.

[~Charlie's~Angel~]

Its so funny how I am the exact opposite of everyone else here. But our house is empty all day M-F. So its set to 63 then. At night and on the weekends, unless we are gone all day, its set to 70. WE like it toasty while we sleep. Especially me since I end up on the floor with my 1 year old half the time.

[MsVyky]

Originally Posted by Abraisme

Our house is generally 70 during the day and 65 at night.

this, but our bedroom is upstairs and it is quite a few degrees warmer than that up there.

[prothyraia]

Usually 55-65, depending on when we last put wood on the fire.

They do actually make sweaters and warm footie pajamas in infant sizes.

[woodchick]

We're between 60-63 during the day and 55 at night.

[Drummer's Wife]

I don't have a baby, but we keep the house (now and when we did have an infant) at 70-72.

[Alisse]

After we had our son, we upped the temperature to 72degrees so that he wouldn't be so cold during diaper changes. But at night we go down to 68 because of the dryness.

[cristeen]

Originally Posted by prothyraia

They do actually make sweaters and warm footie pajamas in infant sizes.

OP here - this is exactly what I was thinking. In both of these houses though the littles were running around wearing very little. Whereas my little guy at the moment is wearing socks, babylegs, a long-sleeve tee and a smock with his diaper. Most of the time he's wearing wool pants or a sleep sack around the house. My little is like a pp's - he turns beet red when he's too hot, and it doesn't take much. Everyone thought we were wacko when we said we were stripping him down because he's to hot - he just doesn't need 8 layers when he's in a heated restaurant (or car), ya know? He really does turn red and get pissy if he's too hot (I'm the same way, though).

Glad to know I'm not wacko for keeping the thermostat so low, though. I will say that the heater in the main part of the house is rarely on. We just keep it set to 60 for those nights when it gets cold. But we live in a moderate climate, so the house maintains 60 pretty well on it's own most of the time.

[YayJennie]

If it's just me and the baby home I keep it set around 66-67. If my husband is home, he cranks it to the mid 70s, which drives me crazy. I walk around in a tank top when I have it set in the 60s, I could be naked when it's in the 70s! We drop it to 55 at night (baby co sleeps, so I don't worry he'll get cold) and when I leave the house for more than an hour I usually set it down to 60.

[Miasmamma]

63 during the day and 57 at night.

[zenproof]

its set for 69 all the time.

[dogretro]

65 during the day, 58 at night. DD has a heated mattress pad b/c her room is the coldest. If it is really cold outside & makes it too cold inside, we turn it up to 68. By "too cold" I mean that if I am already wearing a sweater & I'm still cold, it's too cold.

[boobs4milk]

50's???? i'd freeze! we live in an old drafty house and we keep it at about 68-70. with the l.o.'s on the floor, even in layers they get cold!