Is the nursery supposed to be completely dark during naps?

[banzai75x]

Do you think it is better to have a room completely dark or dark as possible during daytime naps? Or would you rather just have some slight light through a curtain be acceptable?

[ahrimie]

I use our blackout shade and find that works best with my DD. It's not COMPLETELY dark but definitely dark. I leave the door slighty ajar and there's an automatic night light by her door.

[elliput]

I'd say it depends on the kid. My DC seem to nap well in any type of lighting (full daylight, dimmed, dark), but need to have nearly no light at night.

[wendibird22]

DDs room definitely isn't dark for naps and actually on sunny days, is quite bright even with the shades pulled. She doesn't have a problem sleeping and it has helped us when she's needed to nap at other locales (like on vacation, camping, at a friends, at the sitters, etc) when we can't control how dark it is in the room. This way, she doesn't need it to be dark to sleep.

[hellokitty]

It made a difference for our kids. Not only for naps, but in the summer too. Before I got blackout shades my kids would wake up as SOON as the sun rose! Yeah, I was not a happy camper. We got black out shades from JCP and I've been very happy with them. Make sure if you order them, that you order them a little bit wider than the glass part of your window. That was my mistake, b/c now there is a gap to let some light through, if I would have ordered them wider, then the room would be better insulated from the light.

[infomama]

Darken it as much as you can. We never went as far as putting up black out shades but we didn't have much luck putting them down without a very dim room.

[Snow mom]

We are in the "get them used to sleeping through it" camp. I'm sure it depends on what your LO will tolerate, but I figure if they will nap without the nursery darkened, there is no point in getting them used to the idea that they should only sleep under certain conditions.


~Lisa

[slworld]

I'm sure it depends on what your LO will tolerate, but I figure if they will nap without the nursery darkened, there is no point in getting them used to the idea that they should only sleep under certain conditions.


~Lisa

:yeahthat:

[scrooks]

I'm also in the "getting them used to sleeping in whatever camp". I didn't want her to only be able to sleep in the dark.