Would anyone with experience with this be willing to help
a hormonal woman out? A few years ago we painted our guest room a very
pale neutral creamy yellow with the plan that it would eventually be the
nursery. Since becoming pregnant my Mother in law has been badgering us
to repaint the nursery because it will make the baby cry. She is a
scientist but also from an ethnic culture with lots of superstitions.
Her daughter also cried a lot as a baby in her yellow room. But my
sister in law as a 30 year old still cries a lot. I don't want to
repaint. We have already ripped up carpet and refinished the floors.
With all the contructtion and fumes I am ready to just be done with the
room. I know yellow is an energetic color and reflects light but it's so
pale. Does anyone know any truth to this yellow crying baby conspiracy?
Should I maybe keep and open mind on this or continue to tell her no.
thank you in advance.
I have a pale yellow nursery, well, a creamy yellow, sunshine something or other, and C only cries in there when she's teething. She goes to bed at 7:45 with no tears and wakes up at 6:45 yelling for us. No crying. You'll be fine.
Generally yellow is considered an irritant, so I get where she's coming from, but if it's the right shade, which it sounds it is, you're fine. Check the nursery post and you can find the pics I posted a while ago.
If my MIL was that set on changing the color of the room she'd have no problem doing it herself. So I guess if your MIL is dead set against the yellow nursury tell her she can paint it a different color.
DD has a pale yellow nursery. She sometimes cries. Glad I have something to blame now. (And all this time I just thought she was being a baby/toddler. Silly me.)
I think you hit the nail on the nose when you said that 30 your SIL still cries a lot- thats just her personality. Our nursery is light yellow and has been for a few years. I've always found it to be a warm, sunny room that relaxes me.
I say leave it if that is the color you want it. I was thinking of doing a yellow room for the baby to. I even looked on Pinterst and there are a lot of yellow rooms out there for baby.
I have heard that people fight more in yellow rooms. I call bullshit. Our bathroom is painted a kind of pale creamy yellow, and DH and I never fight in there.
If you love the colour, throw out all the superstition, old wives tales, and advice from your MIL and leave it be!
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I have heard that people fight more in yellow rooms. I call bullshit. Our bathroom is painted a kind of pale creamy yellow, and DH and I never fight in there.
If you love the colour, throw out all the superstition, old wives tales, and advice from your MIL and leave it be!
DH and I always fight in the living room, which is painted in a tan-ish color. So stay away from tan, OP.
There are actual psychological/behavioral studies that do make connections with colors affecting mood and temperament. There is a reason McDonalds uses these studies to design their dining spaces (they make you hungry and don't want you to linger). BUT, no color is actually going to make you cry just by being around it. Yellow is a stimulant, but I'm sure you will see no effect on your baby.
Our kitchen is yellow and I cry in it all the time. Only because its a horrible shade. It looks like "smoker house yellow" (We did repaint when we moved in so its not actually smoker house yellow. )
Yellow is fine for a nursery. Your MIL is just being silly.
Isn't pale yellow a pretty standard nursery color?
I agree with PP, your SIL may just cry a lot. Or maybe she has always hated yellow. Or maybe your MIL made her cry. None of those are reasons to repaint. MILs always seem to have a lot of opinions.
My brother and I's nursery had green and white striped wallpaper. I'm crying just thinking about hideous that must have looked. Maybe that's why we grew up to be such jerks.
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Well my babies are screwed then. I think yellow is probably one of the most common colors for nurseries, especially if people don't find out the gender. I would tell MIL to mind her own business.
Re: pale yellow nursery will make baby cry?!?!?!
I have a pale yellow nursery, well, a creamy yellow, sunshine something or other, and C only cries in there when she's teething. She goes to bed at 7:45 with no tears and wakes up at 6:45 yelling for us. No crying. You'll be fine.
Generally yellow is considered an irritant, so I get where she's coming from, but if it's the right shade, which it sounds it is, you're fine. Check the nursery post and you can find the pics I posted a while ago.
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My girlfriend just painted it for me last minute now sage green.
I would not worry. That is what color we were going to do.
Yellow is fine for a nursery. Your MIL is just being silly.
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