Let there be light!...Or dark??

The other morning at around 3am when I was up feeding Alyssa, I was sitting in her room trying to figure out how long it had been since I stopped needing to turn a light on to see what I was doing in there. You see, these days I have been able to walk in at night and see really well due to all the various light sources around the room so haven't used the actual lamp in ages.

There is a light on the heater, one on the clock, the angelcare monitor and more recently, the grobag egg! All this equals serious light pollution and I was starting to think maybe this is why Alyssa is waking and not being able to get back to sleep on her own? So yesterday evening before bed, I either turned off or covered everything emitting light and whoa, it was almost pitch black. Wouldn't you know it, Alyssa slept really well last night and was able to self settle!!

I guess I'll see if it works again tonight (fingers crossed). Does anyone else find that their baby's room is quite light from these kinds of things or do you use a night light?? Have you found this to be an issue for your baby?

Oh no I definitely didn't cover the heater, and haven't covered anything that will get even slightly warm..

Yeah, Alyssa wakes earlier when it gets lighter outside too... kind of stink when it's getting light around 7am!! The curtains are the blackout type, but the light still comes through the gaps around the window which is what she notices...

we had a nightlight when Gabriella was asleep next to us in basinette....but more for me than her...so i could see what i was doing...boobie in her ear wasnt a good thing LMAO!!!

since she has been in her nursery i have ensuite light on with door pulled right to while i feed her and put her down each time...but turn it off on my way out and her room is pretty well dark...except when she kicks ocean wonders into action of course!

Those little LED lights are one reason why we don't have an alarm clock in our room. We both use our mobiles as our alarms... I can't sleep with them. I even make sure I turn the tv off at the button and not the remote, those lights annoy me and keep me from sleeping.... not sure why either.

We've got oil heaters that don't have a light on the switch for the boys rooms - the four bar ones. We've also got blackout type curtains in their rooms. We finally ended up moving Connor out of our room after he started waking at 5pm when our neighbours turn their lights on next to our bedroom. Eventhough it's light we don't notice, the little observant one took it as being party time.