Keeping Baby Safe In A Heat Wave
Here we are, in hotter than Hades, New York City. I had forgotten how ridiculously humid and awful the summers can be here…until last summer, when I was pregnant, I was here for a week around the same time. Brutal.
I remember a day when I worked in a freezing air-conditioned office all day, then went out for fruity cocktails with my friends in the evenings as the warm balmy air thawed my ice-cold shoulders. Sigh. Those were the days.
Now, I’m just hot and sweaty with hot and sweaty offspring. The heat is so intense, I’ve been a little paranoid about them getting heat stroke and/or dehydration. I did a little research on keeping babies cool in the summer heat. Here’s what I learned:
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Provide Shade
Have your baby wear a hat, sit under an umbrella, or other shady area. Duh, right?
Don’t leave a baby in an *open* car… cracking the windows does almost nothing to stop the heat rising. If I’m leaving my baby in the car at all… like while pumping gas, I put all 4 windows all the way down. If I’m going anywhere that leaves the car out of site for even a minute, I take him with me even though it’s a pain in the ass.
While doing my own product research I came across your blog as it was relative. I am giving you a link to a site that sells a sweat reduction car seat layer for babies. I understand completely if you remove the link and this comment however due to it’s commercial orientation.
http://www.babysweating.com
Kind Regards,
Dave Power.