PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - C J Bacon
AU  - S A Bell
AU  - E E Clulow
AU  - A B Beattie
TI  - How mothers keep their babies warm.
AID  - 10.1136/adc.66.5.627
DP  - 1991 May 01
TA  - Archives of Disease in Childhood
PG  - 627--632
VI  - 66
IP  - 5
4099  - http://adc.bmj.com/content/66/5/627.short
4100  - http://adc.bmj.com/content/66/5/627.full
SO  - Arch Dis Child1991 May 01; 66
AB  - Details of room temperature, clothing, and bedding used by night and by day and in winter and in summer were recorded for 649 babies aged 8 to 26 weeks. Room temperature at night was significantly related to outside temperature and duration of heating. Total insulation was significantly related to outside temperature and to minimum room temperature, but there was wide variation in insulation at the same room temperature. High levels of insulation for a given room temperature were found particularly at night and in winter, and were associated with the use of thick or doubled duvets and with swaddling. At least half the babies threw off some or all of their bedding at night, and at least a quarter sweated. Younger mothers and mothers in the lower social groups put more bedclothes over their babies, and the latter also kept their rooms warmer. Many mothers kept their babies warmer during infections.