Babies cry more in yellow rooms??

[Daffodil Mumma]

Wow Ive never heard of that!!! Our nursery is standard rental cream....I wonder if the landlord will repaint for me lol yea right!!

[BekZ]

I have heard of this theory. A gp actually told me. At the time we painted DD room green instead. Since then we have a new house I actually painted all the rooms yellow...oopps. Although Loren has been in a yellow room and we had no probs

[Willow]

Bek, I'm wishing we'd gone for green too now! Easy to add either blue or pink to it after bub is born and it would still look nice. Bah!

Wonder if I could mix the yellow with a blue to get green hmmm...could always try a small sample and see what happens!

[Liz]

Well, there could be something in it, as colours can certainly affect the feel of a room. maybe yellow is quite a stimulating colour?

I spose you can take comfort in knowing it doesn't make any difference for night sleeps, coz you can't see anything in the dark! LOL.

[tattoo_mama]

I don't know how they worked this out, most likely they had a control group of say 100 babies and cause yellow is quite a popular colour for babies room...and all babies cry....so probably a majority of the babies had yellow rooms, and surprise...cry! LOL

And I was under the impression for the first month or so babies can only see black/white/grey so how does that work?

Were in a rental and babies room is a pale yellow, but we have blockout curtains so the room is only obviously yellow when you put the light on...

I really wouldn't worry about it!! Worst that can happen, if you think its affecting bubs that much, paint it! GL

[HotI]

Bek, I'm wishing we'd gone for green too now! Easy to add either blue or pink to it after bub is born and it would still look nice. Bah!

Wonder if I could mix the yellow with a blue to get green hmmm...could always try a small sample and see what happens!

Talk to the people at the paint shop. Most paints start with a base and then they add tints to get it to the colour you want. I have taken paint back and got them to add tint to change the colour. It is a bit more creative than just following the recipe from the start, but you can get pretty close to a new colour you decide on.

[Willow]

Thanks Kate! I might try that! I can't imagine it would be impossible to go from pastel yellow to green, but I'll soon find out!

[Nelle]

Willow, I just remembered that when my sons do overnighters at my parents, one of the rooms is yellow, and they've always slept just fine in there. Thought I'd mention it, since I just remembered.

[Willow]

Cool, thanks Nelle

[OceanPrincess]

I've heard this... my aunt and uncle had twins and their ante natal educator talked about this, right after they had painted the nursery yellow

And my cousins were pretty feral