Night Light/Lamp

Not sure what type you are looking for but we got some touch lamps from the warehouse, they are black shades and a brass type looking base (quite nice not tacky like they probably sound) anyway there are three different light levels so each time you touch it (which i might add is super handy for getting up to bubs in the night specially if you wear glasses like me) the light goes brighter. They were really cheap to, cant remember how much but less than $20 each i think.

Robyn my parents have those same lamps in their $4.5mil house in Sydney so not tacky at all

I have a Jolly Jumper baby monitor with a noise activated night light on it (comes on when bubs cries or if you talk etc.) and I just use that. I also turn the hallway light on outside their room and that lights their room enough without having to turn on their actual light and wake them up more than neccessary.

I don't like the idea of turning on the hallway light as that will blind me even more than my bedside lamp and DH would kill me cause it would shine directly on him (just the direction of door and bed etc) lol. I might get a cheapie touch lamp

mum got us the touch lamps and we hadn't used them up tilli had ayja but have used them ever since.. one in our room and one in ayja's room, they are great cos i had it right down low when feeding ayja and could slowly bring it up when i went to change her bottom for more lighting, then off again when she went to bed, that was while she was little and in our room. She now has one in her room and it's just low enough to light her room a teeny bit, but dark enough for her to go to sleep. With Paris at her age we just had the halway door open and the hallway light on, but Ayja is tooo nosy and won't sleep if she sees the door open. I thought the ones mum got me looked icky (old lady flowery ones..) but they have worked really well. nice and cheap.. something like $5 - $10 each if that..

Edited by mum2paris

when mikey was little i had a touch lamp on the lowest setting and that worked fine.

We have a standard lamp with a low wattage blub...that works fine for us.

A 25watt bulb in a normal table lamp works well for me in Ella's room - I just flick it on for feeds.  And I keep a hallway light on (not right outside our bedroom door though) all night so I'm not tripping over myself wandering through to her room.  Will baby be in your room or another one?  'Cause I guess that makes a big difference. 

If you could find a lower wattage bulb you could just put that in the lamp you've got.

hehe I never thought about a lava lamp, I'd probably sit there for ages waiting for it to heat up so I could watch it that's actually a pretty good idea and they are pretty cheap. I had a look around for touch lamps when I was in town yesterday buying some lights for our living room and I couldn't find one under $40 and that was at the warehouse

You can get the different types of Lava Lamp, some of the ones with like 'sparkly' stuff in it warms up really fast so the light is a bit better a bit sooner. We have a blue sparkly one but we have been using a yellow one and just turning it on gives enough light. We dont need to let it warm up totally (cause it takes ages).