This may be a silly FTM question, but are blackout curtains necessary? Right now, we just have blinds and a valance in LO's room. It makes sense to me that we wouldn't want her to get used to sleeping in only a pitch black room all the time, but would you still want them for nighttime so you could make sure the room was dark when LO was put down for bed?
This doesn't seem like it should be that hard, but I wanted to see what the STM+ have done.
Re: s/o curtains...
I did not use blackout curtains for the exact reasons you are thinking. DS can nap anywhere and is a great sleeper. Also nice because we travel a lot and if it doesn't get dark until 10 pm in the summer...I don't have to worry about making sure the room he is in is totally dark at 8 pm. A lot of people use them, but would I call them a necessity? Absolutely not.
Funny thing, I use blackout curtains in our master bedroom. Dh works overnights and sleeps until early afternoon. So for him...I allow blackout curtain use.
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Thanks ladies. I figure we will just start with what we have and go from there. One of my friends has kept her LOs room dark since day one and he still doesn't sleep well so I know there is more just a curtain that goes into it.
Our nursery only has one window and doesn't catch much direct sunlight, so hopefully it will stay pretty cool. I also thought that we could probably change the blinds to the blackout ones as that would be cheaper than curtains. I can't believe how expensive curtains are!
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Hah pretty much this. Also, the sun is up at like,530 and doesn't set until 845, and when your kid wakes up with the sun, you aren't going to just hope that they learn to sleep through the light.
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We very purposely chose to NOT make DD's room completely dark when she slept so that we wouldn't have issues when we tried to put her down in other places (we travel quite a bit). Her old room didn't even have any sort of window covering at all on two of the small windows (and just blinds on the two big windows). That meant that at nap time and during the summer, it was still quite light in there when she went down. Her room in the new house has blinds on all the windows, but they are just blinds and still don't darken it all the way.
The nice thing is that she really will sleep anywhere and I don't have to worry about it. Personally I think you are setting yourself up for trouble if you use the blackout shades, but that is JMO.
ETA: she is a rockstar sleeper, sleeps more than 12 hours at night (and until 8 or 8:30 in the morning) and takes 2.5-3 hour naps. Always has. The light definitely doesn't affect her sleeping habits.
I didn't put them in DD's room until I thought they might help her sleep better.
Honestly? If your kid is going to be a sh!tty sleeper there's not a lot you can do about it. Using or not using black out shades for a newborn is not going to affect how or where your kid is going to sleep in the future.
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