Nightlights are not simply a vital baby safety product, they are furthermore very handy for Mum and Dad too - especially at feeding time when you do not wish to to fully wake your baby up, a nightlight may help out with this. Nightlights emit a subtle gentle light for your baby or child as they are sleeping.

A lot of types of nightlights are available in Australia including entertaining and ornamental lights in the form of animals or comical characters, and totally automatic nightlights that understand to turn on in the dark and off and when the sun is up.

Nightlights what's more provide parents a way of checking on your sleeping baby without switching on the room light and possibly waking their baby.

There are a few potential downsides to nightlights though. A recent study by the University of Pennsylvania Medical School found that babies under the age of two years old, whose parents used nightlights, had a five-fold increase in myopia compared to other babies or toddlers who slept in a room that was dark.

In fairness to parents who use nightlights the study does not prove night time nightlights that are used during early childhood is a direct cause of myopia, parents may want to consider the study on baby safety when deciding whether to use a nightlight or not - please remember however that this was just one study and although it did have interesting results they were not conclusive as the sample set was not large.