My wife and I had our first child recently, and are currently going through the “waking up all night to feed” stages. This is rough on everyone involved, so I wanted to see if I could set up a technical solution to make some parts of it easier.
I had some Hue lights already set up in my house, so I decided to start with them to make late night feedings a little easier.
I set up some in our bedroom, and some in our nursery. Since the baby is so little, he’s still sleeping in a crib in our room, but we’re keeping the changing stuff, and comfortable chair for feeding in the nursery.
I then got one of the Hue dimmer switches, and mounted it next to the bed. I configured it to control both the nursery and the bedroom groups of light, and set the default to be a very low powered light.
Now, when we get up in the night to get the baby, we tap a single button, and it sets the lights to a low setting, thus helping us not wake each other up, as well as not fully waking the baby up.