# Am I underbundling my baby?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-underbundling-my-baby/612351>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 9, 2012, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-underbundling-my-baby/612351 "2012-02-09T22:30:01Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Pocito](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f04885/32.png) [@Pocito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pocito)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2012, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-underbundling-my-baby/612351/21 "2012-02-10T16:06:30Z")

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My mother-in-law used to bundle up my oldest (when he was an infant) like he was going to compete in the Iditarod. This was for the car ride home from her house. Twenty minutes later, I’d get him home and his uncovered nose would be sweating like crazy. I had to tell her to knock it off before the kid died of overheating.

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**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2012, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-underbundling-my-baby/612351/22 "2012-02-10T16:08:22Z")

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> [@pbbth](#):
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> [Of course!](http://s439.photobucket.com/albums/qq111/lesschatmorehat/?action=view&current=002-1.jpg) How could I forget the rules?

Eeeee!

That is my only contribution to this thread. Well, that and saying that if your baby is cold, you’ll know because she’ll be crying.

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**Author:** ![Dogzilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@Dogzilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogzilla)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2012, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-underbundling-my-baby/612351/23 "2012-02-10T16:54:38Z")

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> [@pbbth](#):
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> [Of course!](http://s439.photobucket.com/albums/qq111/lesschatmorehat/?action=view&current=002-1.jpg) How could I forget the rules?

Squeee! Monkey feetz!

I don’t even _like_ babies, but that is dang cute.

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**Author:** ![gwendee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@gwendee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gwendee)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2012, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-underbundling-my-baby/612351/24 "2012-02-10T18:22:06Z")

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When my son was tiny my brother-in-law, a police officer, told me that the overwhelming majority of baby-in-distress calls that his department ever responded to were the result of overbundled babies.

Sounds like you’re doing just the right thing.

And wowwee she’s a cutie.

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**Author:** ![ballardfam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8797f3/32.png) [@ballardfam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ballardfam)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2012, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-underbundling-my-baby/612351/25 "2012-02-10T18:24:51Z")

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I had the habit of over bundling my first child until my sister pointed out that she was, in fact, **a human being**. So if I was comfortable in however many layers, she would be too.

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