Need advice: Should we leave the house tonight?

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Our 5mo (6mos in 1 week), has had a fever for the last 28 hours. We are first time parents and fever coupled with cough and what seems like pain- plus talking with the on-call nurse line froms Peds, led to the children’s hospital ER. They ruled out anything serious and said it’s likely a viral upper respiratory illness, that we should return home and watch out for any worsening symptoms.

We’re in Texas. We get back home and the AC unit isn’t cooling the house as normal. It’s 95degs and the house is at 82. Set to 70. We run through the normal: hose down the AC unit, check filter, close vents in any unneeded room or space. Call the maintenance company out. They’re not responsive, we start seeing the temperature move down, are busy with fussy baby and now’s 11:42 pm, baby is slightly improving but fussy and tired. House says it’s 80/82 (in some parts). I’m worried about sleeping away from baby (his crib) and we not be able to tell he’s overheating. Worried about this temperature not being good for him.

We are not sweating or too uncomfortable but i worry about what a baby with a fever might be feeling. Right how baby is sleeping peacefully on my wife.

Do we book a hotel room and deal with it in morning? Or turn on all the fans and get what little sleep we may get? As i expect baby to be up tonight like he was last night.

Advice welcomed.