White noise

coffeekitten

Does anyone use this with their LO?

 Juliette has needed a sound machine since she came home from the hospital to sleep. She's a very, very light sleeper and without it, all the noises from the airport, cat, house etc. would keep her up all night. She listens to the sound of the rain and the highest volumne I guess on her sound machine. She's 19mo. and sleeps great now. I'm wondering if this is still okay, especially since she has a baby sister coming soon. Then I'm wondering if I need to get Luci hooked "on" the white noise because they are going to be sharing a room. What do you think?

amanda_holbird@hotmail.com

I've always slept with white noise (a fan).  I can't sleep in complete silence.  I even have a white noise app on my Droid for whenever I am away from home.  My boys also sleep with a fan on.  They have a Jack & Jill bathroom so I have a fan in the bathroom and it acts as white noise for them. 

slwprincess

Sophie is a white noise baby.  At first, we used the HBOTB dvd on heartbeat sound.  Then we transitioned to the ocean sound on the Sleep Sheep.  Now she has a water ripple sound on the sound machine in her room and we still use the travel sleep sheep on her carseat.  We also have white noise apps on our iphones for travel.  Seriously... the child is surrounded by white noise all.the.time.  Gavin on the other hand has always been a music baby.  We have a classical music cd and a relaxing celtic music cd playing in his room at night.  He doesn't HAVE to have it when we travel, but I find that it does help him settle down faster if its on... so we have both cds on our iphones as well.

hthomas02

mine still sleep with white noise and the third one will too, hell I have always slept with some kind of white noise (fan, and now monitors with white noise machines, ha!).  I cannot sleep in silence (unless drunk, ha!).  I dont' think its a bad thing.

susangilchrist

We sleep with a fan in the room for noise, and so does Emma.  She slept in the room with us for the first 4 months or so, and we used a white noise machine when we were spending the night in the hospital right after she was born.  So she's literally had white noise of some sort since she was born.  It's worked wonders for us - can't imagine not using it!!

MLvK

Evie used to use white noise every night but her alarm clock broke in our move and I haven't replaced it.  She has slept fine.   In the beginning she had it on all the time, then as she got older some nights she'd tell us she didn't want it. 

I was surprised when Liam came home that he never woke her up in the middle of the night.   

mingaling2

Mia has always had white noise or the humidifier on in the background.

hthomas02

susangilchrist:

and we used a white noise machine when we were spending the night in the hospital right after she was born. 

genius!!!  I think I might just pack ours up now!

K&P414

I'm completely addicted to white noise and pretty sure I need some kind of intervention. 

myrall

We didn't use a white noise machine with Geneva but I'll more than likely use one with this baby, if only to mask some of the din of the household. We kept our house quiet as a morgue when she was tiny. It was stressful to maintain. I'm hoping the white noise will buy us a little room to be louder (what with a toddler, two dogs, three cats, and normal life).

snansley

DH and I sleep with a fan and a noise machine so it seemed normal to put the same in DS's room.  I can't sleep if it is too quiet.  He naps at daycare with all sorts of background noise and doesn't seem bothered by normal household noise so I think he will be the same way.

mrsd0907

We've had a sound machine for Derek since the day we brought him home from the hospital. He can sleep ok when we travel without it but he will go to sleep and sleep much longer with it.

ally-cat

We downloaded a hairdryer sound bite and have been looping it in the cd player since Max was about 1 month old.  I often wonder if he even needs it, anymore.  But I don't want to take the chance, heh.

hthomas02

ally-cat:

We downloaded a hairdryer sound bite and have been looping it in the cd player since Max was about 1 month old.  I often wonder if he even needs it, anymore.  But I don't want to take the chance, heh.

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