Did anyone buy black out shades for your LO's nursery windows in hopes of helping your baby nap better?
If so, what was the outcome? I'm wondering if its worth it or not.
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Best decision I ever made!!! I love ours. The ONLY thing I didn't consider was that if we go out and have to nap elsewhere, he has a little difficulty because he's not use to napping in the light.
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We DIDN'T buy black out shades (our curtains are sheers) and Xander seems to nap just fine in his room even though it's bright in there! We do have blinds so the sun isn't shining in on him, but it's still very light.
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We never did, she has blinds and curtains (sheer) and she naps just fine.
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We never got them and LO naps just fine without.
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Maybe tape black trash bags or tin foil over the windows and see if it helps? If it does, then spend the money on something that looks better.
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My little guy needs them for the morning. Our bedroom faces the rising sun and as soon as it got bright he was up. I fought with 6 am wake ups forever. Then we did the blackout curtains and our lives were a million times improved. He slept until 8 am again. His room probably didn't need them.
We haven't put them up at the new house but we don't seem to get the direct light in the rooms either. He is sleeping just fine.
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We got blackout curtains from target and I'm glad we have them. It's really bright in M's room and she seems to sleep better with them.
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We LOVE our blackout shades! We even have them in our master bedroom. They greatly helped with napping!!
We also have really loooong days here where the sun doesn't set until well after 10pm and the sun rises before 5:30, so they're super helpful for nighttime as well.
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We just threw blankets over the two windows in our room last night to hopefully get her to sleep longer than 6am. And, wouldn't you know, she didn't get up until almost 10am today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We will be purchasing black out shades for our room asap lol -
@Crisark: wow!!
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Yes we did, and they worked. I thought the room was dark, but I didn't realize how light it was until we put the blinds up.
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Here are portable black out shades that I always thought looked awesome.
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Yes, and it was one of the best decisions we've made! I'm pretty sure they are responsible for the extra sleep we've been getting in the mornings (she used to get up between 5 and 6, now she regularly gets up between 7 and 7:30). She also falls asleep easier at night and for naps, and her naps have been longer (that may be due to her age though).
The only downside for us is that she can't sleep at daycare at all, and I wonder if it is because she is now used to sleeping in the dark. But she was a terrible daycare napper already, so now she is at least napping better on the weekends at home.
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@Smurfette: I know right?? Why in the world did we wait 14months to do that???? lol
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yes and it seemed to help.....but then we needed to put an air conditioner in the window, so we can't cover it with the curtian so for nap time it is still not 100% dark, but he still naps pretty good. I wonder if he would sleep in later in the mornings though like @Crisark: !!!
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Yes and it helps sooo much.
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yes, she has one. I think it's helped - the one time I was scatter brained and forgot to close the curtain, she didn't fall asleep for over an hour..finally went in, closed it, gave her a hug and laid her down and she passed out.
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@californiadreams: she even went to bed an hour early tonight!!!! Fingers crossed she sleeps like a champ again!
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We did. It definitely helped. They were worth the money for us.
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Yes. I tried just having room dimming shades and she was just sleeping terribly. I just have really cheap paper like ones from Home Depot- redi-shade, about $8 each, and they work so so well. I do agree that I think it's a little harder for her to fall asleep other places but she actually does ok.
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Yes but LO still wakes before the sun every morning. We have honeycomb blinds with foil inside. It seems like keeps a lot of heat from coming through the window on hot days.
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We actually made a point not to. We have energy efficient curtains and standard, cheap shades but that's it. Plenty of light sill makes its way through. My parents made my room as dark as possible as a baby and young child. Because of that, if I was tired and there was light coming in where they wanted me to nap, it wasn't gonna happen. Even to this day it had to be pitch black for me to sleep.
I didn't want to deal with that with LO so we didn't black out her room. So far it has paid off.
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@Foodnerd81: We use those shades too! It's so sad, but when we travel, i bring an extra set of those with us.
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@Crisark: How did it go this morning?
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@Smurfette: She slept 12hrs! 8:30 to 8:30. Wasn't her most sound sleep but it was still a huge improvement!!!
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@Crisark: score!
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