Speaking of white noise...

fricksgirl

How'd you wean off of it?  Did you white-noise lover freak out after it was off?

I'm not really ready to make a huge issue of it but I really don't love that machine.  Share your experiences, please!!

LV2006

L still uses hers - she asks for her ocean every night.

dblhappiness

We just asked the boys if they wanted it on or off. They go through spurts of wanting it on all night or just for a little bit. We haven't had it on for about 6 months or so but they know how to turn it on and off it they change their minds. 

jsugrin

Wean from it:::clutches pearls:::not in this house!  Now the adults happen to like the things also so I'm not sure we will be weaning from them ever but I can see why other people would want to. I think that if it was something I wanted to do that I would take the following kind of approach.....

-take one to two week(s) and every other night turn down the volume a couple notches.

-once the kid (s) is doing fine with the lower volume then I'd start setting the timer so it switches off after after 20 min. (I'm pretty sure that's the longest setting on ours)

-each week (or whatever seemed to work for you guys) I'd reduce the timer a notch, to down to 15 minutes, then 10 and then 5.  I'd probably leave it at 5 for a bit and then start "forgetting" to turn it on at all.

 

I've found recently that neither of my kids need the white noise as much as I thought they did.  I don't think Cooper ever has and Andrew has grown leaps and bounds in his overall sleeping abilities.  We've had time where we simply forgot (the real kind not the "forgot" kind) to turn on either the one in Cooper's room or the one in the hallway and neither kid has had an issue at all.  I was really surprised on Andrew's part because it meant we could hear a lot of Cooper's nightly protests yet it didn't effect his ability to fall asleep at all.

futrkingsley

I though my kid needed it and I faithfully used it until he finally learned to talk at 21 months and asked me to turn it off. It hasn't been used since.