Winter Outdoors With Infants?

[hgonzalez]

I currently have one infant in my care and a 2nd one starting soon; just a little 12 weeker.

We do try to get outside everyday if the temperature allows it. I live in a cold climate, with long winters.

I bundle up the older infant and she sits in a pack n play in the garage while the kids play in the yard/snow/driveway. What do you do with an younger infant in this case? I would worry about him getting chilled to the bone and I can't leave him inside to nap with a monitor, because the new sleep practices require us to check on a sleeping infant every 15 minutes.

What do the rest of you do?

[daycaremom76]

I had a 6wk old last winter and I would just put her back in her carseat and bundle her up and then put a fleece blanket over the top handle so it was like a little tent and put her next to me, she survived the winter! I used a fleece blanket cause they seem to hold the heat in better!

[AnneCordelia]

I budge up small infants and they sit in a rocker or stroller while the bigs play. A little older baby gets put in the outdoor exersaucer.

I live in Ontario Canada and we are outside for at least 1.5 hours a day.

[Play Care]

I'm also in NY (upstate). Babies are bundled up and in the stroller with toys. I push them around after all the kids. I will not take the kids out if it's 20 degrees or less though (permitted by licensing).

[Blackcat31]

We live in a cold climate too (MN) and with babies I do what the other posters have said. Really little get bundled up and either held or placed in a stroller. Older babies will sit in excersaucer or wagon.

We try to get to get out for at least an hour a day, sometimes more.

I honestly believe that EVERYONE needs fresh air every day and sometimes I really have to push this point home with parents of little ones. I think that just like any other age group, they benefit tremendously from fresh air.

[SilverSabre25]

I require babies out of their bucket seat to come with a nice cozy snowsuit...even when it doesn't snow much here. I bundle 'em up, put them in the stroller when it's mucky or they're bitty (but bitties are usually in bucket seats) or on the ground when it's dry/snowy and they're of crawling age, and they have a great time.