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aimeejoy 
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Posted: 03 April 2008 at 9:31am |
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Do you leave the curtains open or shut them for your littlies day sleeps?
I can't remember what I did with Hannah. I had been leaving Greers open but this morning cos it was so cold I left it all shut up and heater on and she went to sleep really really easy.
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Posted: 03 April 2008 at 9:34am |
On the sleep store website they say to shut the curtains, and I noticed when I started doing this with Harry that he slept better 
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Posted: 03 April 2008 at 9:35am |
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Until recently I left them open and had no problems, but we were away for Easter and he was in a dark room and slept really well (especially considering he was in a unfamliar portacot), so now I've started shutting them. The room is still fairly light though.
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Posted: 03 April 2008 at 9:55am |
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Both Paige and Blake have/had curtains shut....but in saying that its pretty light as we have those silly verticals anyway.......
Neither of them have been affected by Daylight savings either...Yay fingers crossed for next one!
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Posted: 03 April 2008 at 10:20am |
We have been closing the curtains too & haven't had any problems. My hope is that Liam knows it's time for sleep when he gets wrapped & I take him into his dark room.
I did hear somewhere that you should leave them open so that baby learns to sleep in places where it's not dark??? 
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Posted: 03 April 2008 at 11:08am |
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curtains shut always
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Posted: 03 April 2008 at 11:33am |
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I leave Megan's blinds open during the day and close them at night havent had any problems with her sleeping during the day. I wanted her to learn that day sleeps are her short sleeps and night sleeps (when blind is closed) is her big sleep.
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Posted: 03 April 2008 at 11:46am |
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I do the same as MegansMum. Sleeps during the day with curtains open and night with shut as I wanted him to know the difference and haven't had any probs. Also wanted him to sleep anywhere so figured leaving blinds open and slept all his day sleeps in the lounge until about 8 weeks would help with that.
Now he sleeps anywhere!
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Posted: 03 April 2008 at 11:56am |
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I used to always leave Isla's open in the day cos I thought you should to teach them day from night,..but when we went to the Mothercraft unit at Waikato hospital when she was 4 months old to get some help with her feeding and sleeping, they said to always close them. She slept way way better then!
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Posted: 03 April 2008 at 12:03pm |
I always close the curtains when it's time for K to sleep, so now she knows the difference between play time and sleep time We had major issues with day time sleeping in the beginning because she decided she didn't want to be wrapped anymore, so whenever it came time to move her she'd fling her arms out and wake herself.. but we have started wrapping her for her daytime naps again (one arm out) and it works a charm for settling her down She doesn't get wrapped at night because she goes to bed awake and self soothes plus she's in a Safe T Sleep and the wrap just gets in the way
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Posted: 03 April 2008 at 12:29pm |
we always close them for day and night sleeps.
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Posted: 03 April 2008 at 1:10pm |
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I used to leave them open. Now he's older and he needs sleep associations I close the curtains.
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Posted: 03 April 2008 at 1:17pm |
I think I closed them with Hannah, to differentiate dark for sleep, light for play. And I was doing the same with Greer, but one day the midwife came and said it was mean so I stopped. But now, two sleeps in a row she's gone down no problem at all and she's not stirring all the time. Must be helping. Thanks everyone!
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Posted: 03 April 2008 at 1:22pm |
We close them - and always say "Goodbye Mr Sunshine - see you soon!" and then when he wakes up and we open them we say "Hello Mr Sunshine"....they arent black out curtains so its pretty light anyway, but think it helps for him to know that its sleeping time rather than awake time.
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Posted: 03 April 2008 at 2:33pm |
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We leave ours open - seems to work as jack has short sleeps during the day and sleeps 12 hours at night so I'm not changing anything no matter what! I guess you just do what works, if one thing doesn't, you try another! It's what this motherhood thing is all about afterall, trial and error..
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Posted: 03 April 2008 at 3:03pm |
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[QUOTE=MegansMum]
I leave Megan's blinds open during the day and close them at night havent had any problems with her sleeping during the day. I wanted her to learn that day sleeps are her short sleeps and night sleeps (when blind is closed) is her big sleep.
iam the same with Paige.
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Posted: 03 April 2008 at 3:27pm |
We leave them open - and he sleeps fine where ever he is now. (mainly coz when he is in the office with me I can't darken the room)
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Posted: 03 April 2008 at 6:24pm |
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with my kids i just close the blinds and its not to dark or to bright
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Posted: 03 April 2008 at 6:52pm |
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Once day and night seemed established, and we moved her day sleeps to her room we started darkening the room for day sleeps.
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Posted: 03 April 2008 at 7:23pm |
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I did what megansmum does with Maya, and had no probs so did the same with the gremlins but I started having probs with their day sleeps around 5 mths and The Sleep Store recommended closing their curtains so I tried it and they sleep heaps better now.
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Dark or daylight day sleeps?
