silly question about baby's room

GenRN45 · October 2010

So, I read awhile ago that you should try to have the baby's room dark for bedtime but dim for naptime. The baby's room is on the east side of the house, and is the first room in the house to get sunlight in the morning. So, I was thinking that I should get a room darkening shade (with sheers over it), and during the night, i could pull the shade down so the sun wouldn't be pouring in the room at the crack of dawn.

Is it really necessary to get a room darkening/blackout shade? or am I completely over thinking this?

dana316 · October 2010

I would do it in a heartbeat! Babies are notoriously early risers, and you want it to be as dark in there as possible so that you might actually get to sleep in a little.

Sleeping in a my house means sleeping till 7AM, but that's beside the point ;-)

LisaMarisa · October 2010

I would see how the baby does if you're unsure about spending the money. But we have room darkening shades and they dont black out the room, they just dim it. We have them in a light color though - navy or black might make it darker.

laura&dan05 · October 2010

I guess it depends on your LO and their sleep habits. Dds room faces east and I don't use room darkening shades. There are regular blinds and curtains (light pink) covering her window. Our bedrooms (3 of them face east) do get light early but it never impacted her sleep patterns. She goes down for a nap without a problem and doesn't have trouble napping for several hours. She wakes up in the morning up until between 7 - 8 am even though it's light in her room.

cjsbdl · October 2010

I think it depends on the baby. Henry is up with the sun if he's sleeping in a room where the windows are NOT blacked out. He doesn't seem to have the same issue at naptime.

sweetpea18 · October 2010

We have thermal curtains, over regular blinds in dd's room. For nap time, we keep the blinds and curtains open a little so it's not completely dark. We went with the thermal curtains to help keep the heat out in the summer, too. We live in Texas and it's hot as hades in the summer!!

charmcitygirl · October 2010

We have a room darkening/noise lessening shade and he still gets up relatively early. But he also goes to bed relatively early, so during the summer it really helped. It cannot hurt to have everything that will make the baby sleep better and longer!

howleyshell · October 2010

I started out with the "I want my kid to be able to nap anywhere" mentality that you hear people spout.

Then... I had kids.

And.... I needed them to actually sleep.

And.... I needed to actually sleep too.

Not only do we have black out blinds in both the kids rooms but this past summer I actually put black foam board up to 100% block every stitch of light out of their rooms.

If I hadn't they would have been waking up at 5 am.

Not cool.

Love our black out blinds and soooo thankful we have them!

Also great for day light savings time changes!

mel72 · October 2010

DS1 could be in a room w/ no windows and still not nap/sleep. He hasn't napped in four days and I think my hair is skipping white and going straight to gray!

Temp159135562506975 · October 2010

we don't have room darkening shades - and it has never been an issue... our boys are good sleepers- in any kind of light.

I feel that babies need to learn to sleep in "not black out" situations- so they'll sleep easily on the go - in the car, stroller, at other people's houses, hotel rooms, etc.... to me, having blackout shades can set a bad habit of needing it really dark.

schoolsoutbride · October 2010

dana316:
I would do it in a heartbeat! Babies are notoriously early risers, and you want it to be as dark in there as possible so that you might actually get to sleep in a little.

Sleeping in a my house means sleeping till 7AM, but that's beside the point ;-)

ditto.

Mouseygail · October 2010

cjsbdl:
I think it depends on the baby. Henry is up with the sun if he's sleeping in a room where the windows are NOT blacked out. He doesn't seem to have the same issue at naptime.

. Diito

LucyPevensie · October 2010

NOT a silly question - you NEED a room darkening shade, trust!! Get it.

GypsyEsq · October 2010

I am with the other posters who think it's important to have a baby that will nap anywhere under less than blackout conditions. It happens to be that my DD agrees with me LOL. She will sleep anywhere so we've never blacked out her room. During daytime naps I don't even close the blinds, after all I want her to nap but at the same time know that it's daytime. I think it's worth just seeing how your LO does before investing in and committing to black out shades.

nikinikinine · October 2010

We never had blackout anything growing up and I think we all did fine. I heavily weighed whether or not to get blackout shades, etc. Our nursery has south facing windows. The sun literally rises on the front of the house. In the end I went with a natural (bamboo) shade and regular cotton drapes. Light does filter in, but I figure maybe that means my kids won't be too fussy about where they sleep

Dochas · October 2010

We got a blackout shade. There is no way anyone could sleep in that room without one. We got them from country curtains and it disappears behind the valance when it's up.

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