Under the sea or clouds and rainbows???

[MummyMiddleton]

Or baby boy is due on November 10th. We have a room for him but we don't want to buy and furniture or decor until we know what theme we are choosing. We are stuck between under the sea and clouds and rainbows. Both are equally cute.
We would paint the walls dark turquoise/aqua for under the sea and pale blue for clouds and rainbows. My mum has an art degree and will be painting the decor on top of the base colour (sea creatures and plants or clouds connected by rainbows).

If you had to choose, what would you go for?

Heratnumber7

You have clearly never watched David Attenborough. Watch one of his sea life documentaries and then tell me it isnt beautiful

I don't think it's beautiful. I'd hate to be a fish, with no nice warm nest/bed to go home to. They are just always cold and wet.

They have lived their there whole lives. They have no idea what a bed is. Its a human concept. They are perfectly happy living the way their species naturally lives. They would be much more unhappy if you gave them human things, im pretty sure they would hate it lol. I know this has no relevance what so ever to the thread or babies or bedrooms but I had to say it

Also, look at videos of Dolphins and tell me they are not the happiest things you have ever seen

Under sea. I did a mural on dd's wall of fish and undersea creatures an she loved it. Think it will last longer than clouds and rainbows.

And :
But then its a short 5 minute cuddle and back in his cot. This is scientifically proven to get babies sleeping through the night earlier. My friend did this and her baby, now 2, slept through the night from 6 months.

lol.

How does poo and vomit get on the wall when his cot will be in the middle of the room. The canging table will be next to a wall, which could be an issue. But we can rethink it, maybe put something up behind it thats wipeable like a whiteboard that we can draw cute pictures on or something

thereallochnessmonster

Thanks x

P.S: You say "lol". But it is proven by experts and worked for my close friend and also other parents I know. I have the proof. I would rather struggle to get my newborn to self soothe and eventually get it working (it does work, as an expert) than have a 2, 3 year old that still wakes up every night and keeps me awake. Co-sleeping is all good when they are a baby, but it becomes a habbit and can last way too long.

I'm a professional children's book illustrator. I've done a few murals for schools in my time.

Although both themes are great (I love under the sea stuff) I would go for sky, clouds etc. It just feels 'lighter' more airy and 'drifty'.

Clouds, rainbows, hot air balloons, beautiful birds, kites, a dragon? aeroplanes, even a rocket right at the top? Could be stunning.

Trampire

Thanks x love the idea of hot air ballon, dragon, planes etc. Very cute. Thanks x

thereallochnessmonster

ask* an expert, I meant. Not as an expert. Typo

DS2 is due in October and I'm doing clouds and rainbows in his room (with some stars). He'll be a rainbow baby after 4 mc last year and I just thought it would be a nice peaceful theme and would allude to that (to me personally).

I would say clouds, I think bedrooms should be calming and all the sea creatures might be a bit stimulating?

Also another one that thinks you might want to lower your self soothing expectations a teeny bit. What works for one baby doesn't always work for another. My DS wasn't able to see soothe until he was nearly 1 but he does reliably sleep through the night now at 2. We didn't co sleep so it was a lot of going back and forth between our room and his

We've got a sort-of under the sea thing going on in our DS' room. DH painted a massive mural of a whale but he made it really life like so it is quite grumpy looking! We also have curtains with fish on them, but that's about it. We did mean to put some more stuff up but life a baby got in the way!

Clouds and rainbows sound awesome though. We have a cool cloud-style lampshade from IKEA in DS' room which was not very expensive. www.ikea.com/gb/en/products/lighting/shades-bases/krusning-pendant-lamp-shade-white-art-00259914/

Also, look at videos of Dolphins and tell me they are not the happiest things you have ever seen

How do you know they are happy? Is "happy" a word you can use for a non human creature?

Just because dolphins have a "face" with a mouth in a shape that resembles a human smile doesn't mean they are "happy"

Sorry OP, I feel I have derailed your thread somewhat

Scientists have proven that dolohins are highly intelligent creatures and actually play with each other for fun, much like humans

You like a bit of science/proven by expert type information don't you op

Smeaton

Smeaton love it!

I studied Level 3 BTEC Child Care And Developement and its 3-5 months, not years. At birth, they can only see human faces and in black and white, then they can see contrasting patterns like a chessboard, which really helps develope their eyesight. By 2 months they can see in colour but its still blurred by movement. At 3 or 4 months they also gain control over where they look and no longer involuntarily look at things moving infront of them. At 5 months they can look at something with enough presiceon to reach out and grab it. And by 8 months they have 20/20 vision.

3-5 years is ridiculous. 1 year olds learn to walk, which is something that requires you to see what is in front of you. A 2 year old will look at cake on a counter and make a grabbing hand motion and say "want cake". A child of 1-5 can easily go and fetch a ball that is on the other side of the garden if asked. They can point at pictures in a book and label animals, colours and things. And your trying to tell me they cant see?

You have got months and years mixed up. Sorry

MrsPringles

Yes I do. Im a bit of a facts person. I love learning and studying things. School was the best time in my life, I loved every subjet and was fascinated by new facts and ideas.

It annoys me when people cant get their facts right, like, seriously, LOOK IT UP

Cor there's always someone out to piss on someone's parade. The OP just wants to do a nice thing, who cares whether it's for her benefit or for the baby's benefit to start off with.

Going by this logic these people's houses are completely wipe clean, absolutely no decoration what so ever because why is any kind of decoration even necessary?

I love both ideas by the way, but clouds are so in right now

But it is proven by experts

What about the experts that have proven scientifically that a 6 month old doesn't have the neural (that's brain) capacity to self soothe? (Seriously, LOOK IT UP.)Children don't all learn to walk at the same time (my DD was 9 months, her best friend 15 months). They don't learn to sleep at a prescribed time either.

The fourth trimester can last longer than 3 months for some babies. And not all babies are the same. You have to stop thinking that you have control over these things. Your baby isn't even here yet!

My DS didn't walk until he was TWENTY TWO months, nothing wrong with him. Just lazy.

Clearly he hadn't done his research