Night lights

Does anyone use a night light for their little ones? We’ve recently moved ours into a toddler bed and at the same time he now wants a light left on when we say goodnight, which I have no issue with. My question is do people leave it on all night? I’ve been going in and turning it off again after he’s gone to sleep which was working fine but last night had a 3am wake up and battle to go back to bed and I put it back on for him but I did eventually go and turn it off an hour later! I’m worried if I leave it on all night it’ll encourage more waking!
Probably massively overthinking something very simple 😂😂

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We have one which is left on all night. Doesn't seem to have made any difference, unless positive. He used to occasionally wake crying in the middle of the night but does it far less now. Perhaps he doesn't like the dark, and wants to be able to find his toy or water bottle.

We use the gro egg on its lowest setting xx

We have the gro clock on the lowest setting which also encourages him to stay in bed until the light changes colour.

do you like the hatch machine? Im considering getting one for the okay to wake (light colour change) function you can control on your phone, but it’s a bit expensive just to take a punt on!

the gro clock has this function too but not from your phone, you just set the time like an alarm on the clock. Can do for bed & nap times.

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