It's time for "back to black" I thought when I realised that our little man wakes up and stays up whenever it gets light in his room (which at the moment is around 6am). We've got one of those roof windows / skylights with a roller blind in front of it which doesn't really block out daylight. So even with the blind down it's very bright in his room in the mornings.

Time for a little DIY action I thought - I had a look round for suitable solutions and in the end decided that a bit of spare cardboard would do the trick. With card board you've basically got 2 options - it's either thick enough so it can be wedged in the window frame (if you cut it just slightly bigger than the inner frame) OR you can use double sided tape to stick it to the window. Either solution worked for me but this is definitely where "measure twice cut once" is a usefule rule! You don't want the gap between the cardboard and window too big ... never seizes to amaze me how much light can come through a tiny gap. On the other hand if it's too big you won't be able to wedge it in and it will fold somewhere. So a bit of precision is required. I found that using a good carpet cutter and a wooden slat (as a ruler) is best for precision cutting.

After all that hard work - here is the result:

I left the window open slightly ... otherwise it would have been pitch black. It really worked perfectly and cost nothing. Even better was the effect on our baby ... he know often sleeps until 7.30 or 8.00. Bliss!

-Stef

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