3.5 TOG Sleep Sack: Room Temperature and What to Wear

The makers' charts give a 3.5 TOG sleep sack below 16°C. Baby Layers stops at 2.5 TOG and adds a sleepsuit under it. What that means for your sack.

A 3.5 TOG sack is the warmest in the makers' charts, for a room below 16°C. The Baby Layers app never suggests it: in a cool room it keeps the 2.5 TOG sack and adds a sleepsuit under it.

Under 18°C: long-sleeve bodysuit, sleepsuit and sleep sack (2.5 TOG).

The sack makers' charts give 3.5 TOG for a room of 16°C. The safe-sleep charities point to those charts, and your sack's own label wins over any table.

Below 18°C, the app keeps the 2.5 TOG sack and adds a sleepsuit under it, over a long-sleeve bodysuit. The Lullaby Trust says a cooler room can take an extra layer of clothing or a warmer sleeping bag, and the app takes the layer.

Nothing, not the baby's age and not a parent's setting, ever makes the app's sack warmer than the chart. A baby is safer slightly cool than too warm.

If you use a 3.5 TOG sack, follow its own label for the room and what goes under it, and check the neck once your baby is settled.

Never a hat for sleep — a baby cools through the head.

A sleep sack, never a loose blanket.

Safer slightly cool than too warm: nothing makes the sack warmer than the chart.

Check the neck — warm but not sweaty means just right.

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What temperature is a 3.5 TOG sleep sack for?

The makers' charts give 3.5 TOG for a room below 16°C. Baby Layers never suggests it: below 18°C it adds a sleepsuit under a 2.5 TOG sack instead.

Is a 3.5 TOG sack too warm?

It depends on the room and on what goes under it. Follow your sack's own label, never add a blanket on top, and check the back of the neck: warm but not sweaty is just right.