Remember to your baby's development in mind as you're designing his nursery.
Your friends may have laughed at you for spending so long figuring out the color scheme for your baby’s nursery…
But colors actually have a large impact on your baby and should be chosen carefully.
It all has to do with the way your baby’s eyes develop.
But based on the colors that most parents choose for their nurseries, they haven’t understood how to align the nursery with their babies’ eye development.
For a newborn, the high contrast of black and white objects tends to hold attention the longest. By the third month, your baby will begin looking for things that are farther away—across the room, for example. Your baby can’t see in color until four months, and nothing over a foot away is in focus, but baby gravitates to primary shades.
You haven’t seen many black and white nurseries, have you?
So what are parents doing?
They’ve got a cool solution for addressing the issue of their newborn only being able to see contrasting colors…
They make sure there’s a black and white mobile hanging over Baby’s crib during the early months.
Then, as Baby develops, they swap it out for something else.
Cool, huh?
Now, if the nursery walls are painted in pastel colors, you can add primary colors to the walls with pictures, posters, or bright colored toys that will draw your baby’s attention and help their eyes develop better.
Check out the full article for more ideas for decorating your baby’s nursery and keeping your baby’s developmental stages in mind.
Decorating Baby’s Room [Fisher-Price]
