Husband opens blinds in baby’s room

@DownmarketSellingSunset To certain extent, morning light is good in a bedroom

Opening a window may make sense, provided that the house isn't located in an area with terrible air quality (most air quality in the UK is shit due to heavy traffic and domestic fireplaces)...

... but can someone please explain to me how light is beneficial to a home, apart from the UV light fading everything that it shines on?

@RumPidgeon I think it’s weird you want to keep the blinds down all day, every day … Surely a room needs airing and some sunlight?

... What does sunlight do to benefit a home...?

I open both my toddler and my baby's black out blinds and window each morning to let fresh air in. I just then close it before I even start thinking about babies nap.

I think it’s weird you want to keep the blinds down all day, every day … Surely a room needs airing and some sunlight? Buy different blinds if you struggle to operate them 😂

If open the blinds and windows !
you’re husband is doing nothing wrong and yes youd be unreasonable to insist otherwise

Jesus! Some people love creating drama! Just put the baby down and close the blinds! It’s that simple!

I would open the blinds and the window every day to let air in. I don’t see how they’re that fiddly but if you know your baby is going to have a nap can you not go in and close them beforehand?

This

My daughters first nursery had an open sided shed filled with huge very grand prams where all the babies from the baby room had their naps winter and summer. They slept like logs!

Why make life difficult for yourself - put her in her cot for the 5 seconds it will take to open them? Most people would want to open or close blinds depending on the time of day op, it’s not a big deal..generally. Intriguing that this has turned into such an issue. Is it the tip of a very large iceberg? Or are you just really precious about weird stuff? Either way If it’s really bugging you ask him to stop doing it, and keep asking until he does it..

That’s what I thought. I might be wrong.

When there is a bigger picture, it usually is a small issue like this that you focus on.

I like to open the blinds every morning, in every room. However, I am also the person who puts the baby down for naps and has to quickly close the blinds in their room again beforehand. If I weren’t the one putting them down for a nap and the person who was asked me to stop opening the blinds, I’d stop. As it’s not a massive deal and I wouldn’t want to make their day a tiny bit harder for no particular reason.

Have you asked him to stop? He might not think it’s a big deal, but the fact that you don’t want him to do it should be enough, surely?

It takes ten seconds to do a blind. You need to open them to let sunlight and fresh air in unless you enjoy stale air. My neighbours keep their curtains shut all the time and their house stinks.

100%

this is such a non-issue I can’t believe it even crosses your mind to think about it.

Unless it turns out like so many of these threads this is the icing on the cake for you and there are huge issues already with your relationship.

I have neighbours that never open their blinds/curtains. I find it really odd. I love walking the dog during winter and being nosy looking at other people's lounges etc. 😂 I couldn't live with no daylight in my house.

Blinds and windows should be opened everyday as standard to let the house breathe and to let stale air out.

Baby can go in the cot for 10 seconds it takes you to do the blinds.

Ffs it’s a fucking blind. Important to him 🤣

I know that if I’d have taken my half asleep babies into a bright room, they would have worked up and been alert.

So I kept the blinds shut. Guess what, my house didn’t go damp or fall down and they all somehow, I don’t know how according to NHS guidelines, learned the difference between day and night.

It was only for a little while and made nap times less stressful.

If she’s told him that it makes it more stress putting the baby down for a nap and he’s insisting on opening a fucking blind anyway, then he’s a bit of a dick.

🤣 exactly!!

Sunlight is disinfectant.

I open all blinds and windows each morning. It’s all part of my routine. The air freshens up the room. Then blinds get closed when someone is going to bed for a nap or the night.

put the blinds down at night
put the blinds up in the morning ( and maybe occasionally open the window to let some air in)
put the baby in the cot whilst you negotiate the blinds.

This is not a big deal or a problem that can’t be solved

Ya we all don't have to do what othe people want... clearly it's important to him.

It would should be marginally better for condesation I suppose but agree the benefits of just the blinds alone are limited and really both should be opened for fresh air and to avoid condensation/damp/mould growing on the window frames in colder weather.

Tell him he can open them again when baby drops naps.

I would be annoyed with him too

She’s asked him not to do one thing to help make her life a little bit easier. He doesn’t want to do that.

Why do you or the OP know best though? What he's doing is a perfectly normal thing... if the OP can't put the baby down for all of 5 seconds to close a blind she's got bigger problems.