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Co-sleeping with a noisy baby

Rhianna1981Rhianna1981
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We currently have a 4-week old baby. Our plan was to have her in our room until at least 6 months-- she sleeps most of the night in her rock 'n play sleeper right next to our bed, though I will nurse her in the middle of the night, and we will both fall asleep for a bit. I will then move her back into the rock 'n play.

My issue is that my baby is a VERY noisy sleeper from the time I nurse her (4am-ish) until she wakes in the morning (around 7am)-- she grunts, hums, giggles, etc. All in her sleep! It means that my husband and I are getting very little sleep from 4 to 7am because she is so loud. 

I feel like I only have 2 options, and I don't really like either of them: 1) Deal with the very fitful sleep/ lack of sleep or 2) Move her into her crib.

Does anyone have another suggestions? Will she become less noisy as she gets older? 

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Re: Co-sleeping with a noisy baby

  • tokenhosertokenhoser member
    White noise machine.
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  • 00jennifer0000jennifer00 member
    It likely won't last for very long.  A lot of the noises sound like immature system noises (espeically the giggling).  My first was really loud too.  If it were me, I'd tough it out for a while longer.
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  • Rhianna1981Rhianna1981
    Okay. Good to know that it won't last forever; we do have a white noise machine in the baby's room, but I will try bringing it in to our room to drown her out a bit!
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  • 00jennifer0000jennifer00 member
    I forgot about background noise.  We sleep with a fan on, so that helps cancel things out too.
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  • Emerald27Emerald27 member

    image00jennifer00:
    It likely won't last for very long.  A lot of the noises sound like immature system noises (espeically the giggling).  My first was really loud too.  If it were me, I'd tough it out for a while longer.

    I just wanted to second this. Our LO was quite the noise-maker for the first 6 weeks or so of his life...so much so, in fact, that I worried and asked our pediatrician about it! It is important to us to have him close, so we waited it out, and he was sleeping silently before we knew it. Hang in there! :)

    Oh, and the white noise machine is a cool idea. We never got one. 

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  • iLuvBLS1205iLuvBLS1205 member

    i use to wondering the same thing but my little girl is almost 4 months now im always checking to make sure she is okay because she is quiet

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