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

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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?

We took ds3 15 months to the coast last weekend, he slept through the dj and discos no problem and he was in the same room.

However at home his brother dropping something in the next room can wake him up

A 3 year old relative of mine once fell asleep during a wedding reception. Full on disco, dancing and singing but she was completely out for the count.

Dd (5) has slept through fireworks, parties, 'entertainment' discos at holiday camps, smoke alarms and thunder storms. We also live opposite a busy railway line and she sleeps through the freight trains and loud horns going off too .

When she was in nappies I was also master of the sneaky night-time nappy change without waking her up!!

"So those of you who are saying that being noisy around your babies means they learned to sleep through it - you were lucky."

This.

It is rather tiresome fucking annoying to be told it's my fault that my dc woke at the slightest thing.

I agree chipmunk.

By their logic it should be my pfb DS1 that shouldn't the light sleeper. And Ds2 who grew up amongst toddler mayhem should be able to sleep through anything.

Tis the other way around.

"Should be" not shouldn't

Fecking autocorrect

Mine go to sleep to noise no problem, but if the noise was to stop very suddenly (unlikely to happen if its a party) they would wake.

Similarly, they go to sleep to silence but if it suddenly got noisy they'd wake.

In a nutshe Id have no worries about a noisy party outside.

My two (almost 4 and 14 months) slept through a wedding reception on Saturday night. The eldest woke up for a bit, had a dance and ate some cake, and then went back to sleep. They both went to bed fine once we were back at our hotel.

I really think you have to at least try and get your kids used to being a bit flexible about where/when/how they sleep. I realise that not all will adapt, but you should at least give it a go, because otherwise you are really restricting your life.

Yes - I would use the pram rather than putting her to bed in the house. Then one of you can walk her if she needs to drop off again.

When the teenager children of a neighbour of ours had a party that went on late, was noisy and spilled out into the street, the only people not to have been disturbed by it was the couple next door to the party, who had a seven day old baby. The baby also slept through all the disturbance.

I'm sure once the 4 month old is asleep, he'll stay asleep.

We used to live within 5 minutes walk of Tatton park. DD used to sleep through the Hallé concerts and the following window-shattering fireworks. Some babies will sleep through anything, others won't.

You'll find out on the night.

Children are so variable. I have been very lucky and joke that DD is the easiest baby sitting gig she is 8 years old now has only woken once in the night (apart from feeding) and nuclear war could break out and she wouldn't wake. There is a good chance that once a good sleeper always a good sleeper.

Both of mine were always hard to get to sleep, but once they were asleep, noise wouldn't usually have woken them.