Elderly OStylers please keep warm

vanoonoo

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

if you turned over a bit too sharpish ... your hair would stand on end.

mine does that now with my slanket!

vanoonoo

Molly41 wrote: »

They coo at the birds sitting on the window ledges on a cold frosty day - I have tried explaining that the birds are keeping warm:eek::eek::eek:

I keep thinking about this and it makes me chuckle!

Dunroamin

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

Did eiderdowns not have - down from Eiders in them?

The ones I am thinking of were nylon filled with nylon wadding. Scratchy, tended to melt when too near the fire, went bobbly after the first wash, would cause friction burns or a firework show of static if you turned over a bit too sharpish in bed and your hair would stand on end.

In theory they did but only the expensive ones.

I know what you're describing but I don't think they were referred to as continental quilts, these always had covers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duvet

gayleygoo

bluebag wrote: »

Would it be possible for you to have a small heater just for babies room with a thermostat so it didn't run away with the electric? Maybe just on for a few hours to keep the room a little warmer.

Have a look on the preparing for winter thread for cheap ideas to increase the insulation in the room, if you haven't already.

I don't know what your circumstances are so it's just a suggestion. We are all trying to do the best we can with what we have. Not always so easy.

We did have a briliant little oil filed radiator heater which worked well, but then it stopped working and the replacment we bought is pretty useless. It's not so bad in this house, it was a different house a few years ago that the HV had said was "too cold", but it was fine of course. The kids have warm jammies, hot water bottles and blankets and they sleep just fine...most of the time...!

I noticed the idea about window quilts and I've got a couple in progress, although for the children's room I'll pin a fleece blanket behind the curtains. We might need a new heater for their room but it's barely got cold yet so I'll worry about that in January:rotfl:

valk_scot

gayleygoo wrote: »

Our baby monitor shows the temp in our LO's bedroom and lately it has been 8 or 9 degrees in there at night. Health visitor told me off once but we make do with blankets and warm jammies! We have heating oil there but its only on two hours a day because I don't know where the money for our next batch will come from. We're not as fortunate as our young, single friends who get heating money from the dole to spend on drink, they live with their parents FGS.

I know it's not to everyones taste but if you have a baby or young kids and can't afford to heat the baby's room to a safe temperature then consider co-sleeping. The reason babies survived through centuries of unheated past times is because they slept with mum and got her body heat, and kids all slept in the same bed and/or with their parents. No baby was left in a cold room on their own, PJs or no PJs.

I know the bills are difficult, I know it's a tragedy when old folk on their own succumb to hypothermia but it would be even worse if a baby or toddler succumbed to hypothermia too when there's such a simple and free solution availible. Obviously you still have to take the usual SIDS precautions when co-sleeping too, but they're pretty simple.

valk_scot

lostinrates wrote: »

I think it really can make that much difference, the loft insulation. We just put ours in at the weekend and the difference is noticable in upstairs rooms. I didn't think it would be and am now chuckling at our coldness for the last two years could have been prevented a little.:o

We had cavity wall insullation put in a few years back in December, when we had scaffolding up for the roof. We have a LOT of outside wall area, it cost the equivelent of three standard semi-detached houses to insulate. I swear though that the difference it made was incredible, the baseline temperature of the house went up about three degrees almost immediately. Just as well, our central heating system was condemmed the following January and it took four months to replace. :eek: