or AIB naive? Does your baby/child sleep through loud noise? Party related

[Newmummytobe79]

our road is having a Jubilee street party. It will be loud, but the noise will be outside. We're really looking forward to it and enjoying a couple of glasses of

All the kids are going, but ours is the youngest. Are we being naive in thinking baby will sleep through it? Bedtime will be around 8pm and there will be noise outside (not double glazed!).

Not bothered at all about the noise, and if baby wakes then so be it. Just wondering how/if yours have slept through loud dinner parties/garden parties etc

When newborn, baby slept through a very loud party ... but I'm guessing it may be different now we're a few months on?

I have been to a wedding where a baby in a car seat was out for the count on the edge of the dancefloor!

It all depends on your child tbh. My ds will sleep through anything - including fireworks outside the window, and once asleep you can pick him up and move him wherever you want.

Oh IAmNotACowbag - that makes me :)

I have been found asleep in many a bar/nightclub! - hoping it's hereditary!

Do you mean the baby will be asleep inside while you're partying outside?
I'd have him asleep in the pram outside tbh

Brilliant CMOTDibbler :)

I'm expecting a few not-so-great experiences on here too :(

My 17 week old sleeps through pretty much anything. A street party would be fine for her unless there was very loud dance type music.

We have made a point of not keeping ridiculously unlike these mad people who won't even speak or allow the doorbell to be rung if baby is sleeping quiet since she was born and it's paying dividends now.

Gumby - we're either thinking of calling it a day when it's baby's bedtime or possibly the party will move to the gardens at the back of our houses as we all have access to each others. Therefore we'll be in our garden whilst baby is in bed past 8pm. Wouldn't dream of leaving baby whilst we carry on unless we're in our garden with the monitor.

do you have a good comfy sling? Maybe pop your dc in there for bedtime, my ds could sleep through all sorts when in his sling as he was comfy and with me and then you could still attend some more of the party and you are hands free for some ?

we're the same fishybits - so hoping it'll pay off too :)

Mine slept through many a BBQ and party. He still sleeps through thunderstorms etc and he's 11 now! So no, yanbu to think baby might sleep through.

Stick her in the pram and go for a little walk around the quieter bits of the block around bedtime. Make sure she's covered up (not sweltering, just not bare arms / legs where the breeze might get to them) and she'll probably conk out fine. Then keep the pram with you.

Or just stick her in a sling?

It's not the end of the world i she's awake a bit longer than usual.

I wouldn't leave her in the house on her own. Safety issues aside, if she does wake up and can glance over to see you right there / is snuggled in sling she is much more likely to go straight back to sleep.

My DS has slept in buggy through a wedding disco. We were going to go home but as he didn't seem bothered we stayed.

If they want to sleep they will. Aged 3, DS went to sleep across 2 chairs about 3ft from the sound system at a wedding. Your LO will be fine - and I would just put them in buggy/whatever and stay at the party IIWY but then I am a horrible neglectful parent whose DC never had routines

There is a funfair in the field across the road from us twice a year, the rides can be as close as about 50m from the DCs bedroom window, it finishes about 9.30pm. They slept through it till they were about 3 and then spent the whole time with their faces pressed up against the window begging to be allowed to go back over there. They have also always slept through fireworks and thunderstorms.

I second Grumpla's idea about the pram. Then hopefully, she will go to sleep happily, be close to mum and dad, and you can still enjoy the party.

All of mine have slept through when there have been loud parties outside / downstairs. It is sometimes difficult to get them to go to sleep (because they don't want to miss the fun) but once they are truly exhausted from running round they have slept well.

Puddle I think the change in noise level makes a difference. If they go to sleep listening to loud noise it won't wake them. If DS is in his cot on a quiet afternoon, and I tiptoe in to check on him, he will surely wake.

Ds1 could sleep through the smoke alarm going off just 2m away from him.
Ds2 would wake if someone sneezed a bit loudly.

Does that help :)

It really depends on the child. DD who is 4 can sleep through anything. DS (nearly a year old) is an incredibly light sleeper and a pain in the arse to get back to sleep once he's awake, which I fond strange as you'd think he'd have got used to noise, what with having such a loud family around him

Like someone else said, a walk round the block might help get baby off to sleep and stay asleep so you can go on enjoying the party.

My ds3 was born October 99. He slept peacefully through all the Millenium fireworks that were going off left right and centre whilst me,dh and ds's 1 and 2 were awake for hours.

DS used to wake up if a fly farted but he's much better now. DD1 once slept through a football match. At Wembley. Surrounded by thousands of screaming fans (she was 3 at the time). DD2 has already learnt to sleep through most things! I would put the little one in the pram to sleep, one night won't hurt.