Fever

What temperature is considered fever for baby? Usually how do you bring down the temperature? My baby temp fluctuates at 37 degrees

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Super Mum

37 degrees is okay:) for low grade temperature (37.6-37.9 degrees), can probably just sponge baby/use fever patch. I would give paracetamol for fevers higher than that and monitor baby for lethargy/drowsiness/poor feeding/rash/other symptoms to see if baby needs to go see a doctor. For persistently high fevers (>38.5), the doctor advised us to add on ibuprofen, and that helped

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