closing bedroom door

How many of you close your babies/toddlers door when they are sleeping? We have always closed Kobes door at the start mainly because I didnt want our dog getting in there but also because now we have to walk past his room to get anywhere in the house and also what if he gets up in the middle of the night while we are asleep, who knows what he could get into even though our house is pretty child safe. He has never seemed to mind it but my friend was shocked and said she didnt close her daughters door because she didnt want her to feel closed in, plus she has a light/aquarium thing on which her girl wont sleep without but I worry about getting into habits like that incase you go away and cant take it or it breaks. Kobe doesnt have a night light, never has and has generally always been a good sleeper. Im worried about changing the rountine (the old done fix somthing that aint broke) but am I being a mean mummy?

Edited by robyn

Our kids doors are closed during day sleeps and open at night.

We have brianna's door shut she doesn't care that its dark and i have to coz she gets out of bed so she knows that when the doors shut she has to go to sleep so its pretty good.

Rachel & Brianna

i shut the boys doors so they will go to sleep but open them after... i worry that i wont hear them if they call out in the middle of the night. gabriel can open his door now tho but i still keep it open.   

AS I said in the other thread, I close Hannah's door too. Mainly because of the noise we make out in the lounge. She's always slept with it closed.
I do have the baby monitor on so that I can hear her in the night. I used to worry about not hearing her properly... now I even sleep through her screaming on the monitor!!!

During the day Ella's door stays open. When she is put in bed at night the door is closed and I leave the oil heater on for a while. I open her door after an hour or so, then turn the heater off when we go to bed. I leave her door open about 30cm otherwise the street light shines through the front door and directly onto her face. If she wakes during the night she comes straight to our bedroom, and first thing in the morning too, for a cuddle in our bed. She's never had a nightlight.

we had xanthes door shut from day one, but over xmas she started wanting it left open, to the point she freaks out now about door open ( we think she picked that up from her older cousin ) X also has a night light, and if we would let her would have her reading light, the hall light and her main bedroom light on. also would prefer curtains open too.... i think it is just a stage she is going through with this though.
nothing mean about shutting doors! its awful having to keep away from a part of the house while you are trying to get the kids to sleep.

I have the door closed when Alex sleeps, day or night and its not a problem. I somehow manage to wake up to Alex if he stirs so not a problem. He does have a night light, just a lava lamp so its quite dim. I started using it when he was only a couple of weeks old so I could breastfeed him in his room and be able to see & now its just habit to flick it on. He does sleep without it but it seems he doesn't sleep quite as well. I'm not worried, he will grow out of it eventually and he doesn't have any other "comfort" things like a dummy or blanket or special toy, just the night light

We just put the oil heater on really low so it clicks on when it gets cold in the middle of the night. The odd time I've forgotten to do it she wakes up cold in the night. Oh yeah and her door is shut but not properly - I put something in to keep it ever so slightly open...

Oh yeah we also shut the door to keep the heat in- we have a thermostat oil column one that clicks on whenever the temp drops, just so she doesn't get cold.