White noise

jennp1979 · September 2014

So we just ordered a white noise machine...

Which sound have you found works best for LO?

How loud do you keep it?

VTKatie · September 2014

The plain white noise, we put it pretty loud. DD is a light sleeper so it helps drown out everything else.

RJHarmon · September 2014

We've always used ocean sounds. I would pick whatever you like because you will have to hear it too

littlemissmarla · September 2014

We use ocean sounds, DD seems to like it and we haven't been brave enough to try anything else yet lol.

shamyfowler · September 2014

Ocean or rain at medium volume

[Deleted User] · September 2014

We have the Sleep Sheep and usually use ocean sounds but I was daring and put on the heartbeat the other day and he kind of went into a trance with it, lol.

JuniperGaze · September 2014

Rain... She loves rain sounds! I think it's the consistency of it. We play it on her sleep sheep at night. In the day during fussy periods we play a YouTube video of a rainstorm. If we are out and about and she's fussy, I use my Sleep Pillow app on my phone and put it next to her in the car seat. Works like a charm.

ariel8200 · September 2014

Do any of you who use white noise also roomshare? I'm tempted to try it but not sure if I can sleep to white noise....but it has to be better than baby grunts and groans and restlessness.

nolemomma14 · September 2014

We use the heartbeat sound. Started out with the rain sound but DH found it annoying lol. We play it on medium/high but we set the timer on our machine so it turns off after an hour. I would play it all night, but DH says he doesn't want LO to depend on the sound to sleep through the night, and since DS sleeps from 9-3 I'm going with it for now. When we put him down after his MOTN feed we turn it back on for an hour.

TexasGirl81 · September 2014

Ocean sounds always work for us. The sound level is just two to three notches up. Not where you can't even hear it, but also not loud at all.

Hoshikitsune · September 2014

We use crickets on our phone after we found out she likes summer night noises during Labor day in the woods.

Prncesta · September 2014

Our LO loves the vacuum sound. We figured this out one day while she was fussing and I started to vacuum. Put her right to sleep!

mrscutforth · September 2014

We have an air purifier in our room and it's loud. It's across the room, so not right in her ear loud.

When we travel, I have an app on my phone that sounds exactly like the purifier.

JuniperGaze · September 2014

kam3100 said:
Do any of you who use white noise also roomshare? I'm tempted to try it but not sure if I can sleep to white noise....but it has to be better than baby grunts and groans and restlessness.

Yep, but I've used sound machines to sleep for years so we are used to it. It helps smooth out all those little sounds during the night.

Nichole8787 · September 2014

kam3100 said:
Do any of you who use white noise also roomshare? I'm tempted to try it but not sure if I can sleep to white noise....but it has to be better than baby grunts and groans and restlessness.

We do. Out sleep machIne has a time do it goes off but I like it anyway.I find it soothing too!

lowen83 · September 2014

DH has a white noise machine that is 30 years old so needless to say we sleep with it every night. I find I don't sleep well with out now.

Both DS's sleep with machines. Their machines are different so DS 1 uses white noise and DS 2 uses car ride.

ariel8200 · September 2014

Well I tried the white noise last night. I don't think it had any effect on dd but I think it helped me to not wake up at every little noise she made.

littlemissmarla · September 2014

kam3100 said:

Do any of you who use white noise also roomshare? I'm tempted to try it but not sure if I can sleep to white noise....but it has to be better than baby grunts and groans and restlessness.

We are sharing right now and have the white noise machine going all night, doesn't really bother us as it kind of blends into the sound of the air conditioner. Might even be helping me sleep better during the few hours between feedings lol.

clk723 · September 2014

We used it when we room shared and still here it through the monitor now that DS is in his own room. We keep it on all night and it seems to help him but it helps me as well because I don't hear all of the noises he makes during the night.

JLHV1909 · September 2014

We are roomsharing, and using a sleep sheep. I've switched between the heartbeat, whales, and waves sounds. Right now the waves win. Set the timer for 45 minutes and we all sleep! I'm going to potentially get one for our room when he goes to his own- dh used the tv to help him sleep for years and I can't handle that anymore.

argonne · September 2014

We have the Homedics baby spa and use the stream noise. Always on med/high. When I go to sleep in her room (after her first MOTN waking at 1-3) it doesn't bother me at all.

ADC1979 · September 2014

I've used a white noise machine ever since I had the misfortune of picking an apartment near train tracks years ago. (Super apartment hunting FAIL). We actually use 3 white noise machines at night because we're so used to it...one on the baby projection thing we got for Elias's room so he'll be used to that one, a machine we got at Bed Bath & Beyond, and the Sleep Machine app on my phone. I can't sleep without the white noise now, and Elias seems to like it!

Morgieloo · September 2014

We love our sleep sheep and use the ocean sound. I hear it through the monitor all the time and actually have gotten used to falling asleep to it.

TexasGirl81 · September 2014

Qfrump said:

LeaLupins said:
We have the Sleep Sheep and usually use ocean sounds but I was daring and put on the heartbeat the other day and he kind of went into a trance with it, lol.
We use ocean on the sleep sheep, too. The whale one makes me giggle.

@Qfrump‌
The whale sounds freaky to me. Kinda like a scary movie setting. Lol!!

shortstack930 · September 2014

@TexasGirl81‌ agreed! I hit the whale one by accident the other night and it totally freaked me out!

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