I recently found Blackout EZ window covers, and they have changed my life! I wish I had known about these things 4 years ago!!In light of this, I thought I would review them and write a post about how incredibly awesome they are.
I would recommend Blackout EZ to just about anyone; not only parents with babies and young children, but also anyone who works night shifts and has to sleep during the day, or anyone who could benefit from sleeping in a totally dark bedroom!
A big key in maximizing your child's sleep is keeping their sleep area very dark. Any bit of light in the room can inhibit melatonin, which is the hormone that regulates sleep. For this reason, a very dark room produces good sleep!
Over the years, I have tried different methods of darkening my sons' windows. With my oldest, Ethan, he really only needed two layers of room darkening curtains and he was good to go. As he got older, he needed less and less coverage for his windows.
My youngest, Campbell, proved to be our more sensitive sleeper, and I had to use a combination of construction paper, blankets, and two layers of room darkening curtains in order to make his room dark enough so that he would sleep soundly! Let me show you what an eyesore his windows were!
Here is my finished product! Let me tell you, after I did both windows in the room, it was pitch black! And now, I have my windows back so I could put up pretty curtains or blinds!
I already had faux wood blinds that I was wanting to put up but couldn't before. Doesn't the finished product look so much nicer?! I am LOVING it! And so is my sleeping Campbell!