Will train noise keep baby awake?

[Tallybop]

Hello!

We live right next to a train line and my boyfriend is thinks we have to move because the noise will startle our baby (EDA very far away). I hate the trains, which run from about 5am till 1am, but I have a feeling they won't be an issue for a baby. We've had kids stay a couple of times and they haven't had any issue. But of course I don't want to be stuck in a house that makes the new baby / no sleep situation worse than it has to be, and I do have a habit of assuming I know what's best without having any actual basis for my opinion!

Any thoughts very much appreciated!

I would have thought it unlikely. Both my kids were terrible sleepers but they weren't woken up by noise - they just woke up all the time anyway. If it were really bad you could play some white noise in the background to mask it.

The baby will be used to the noise by the time it's born and you might find it's hard for them to sleep when it's quiet!
We have just moved from next to a train line and I miss the noise already!

This is encouraging. Thanks very much!

My dog barks next to my sleeping baby and she carries on sleeping - don't worry 😂

We lived next to a train line when our children were born and as babies. The train noise didn’t bother them at all. It was loud, we used to have to shut the double glazed windows in the summer if we wanted to watch tv!

We’ve moved now but DC are very good sleepers! I don’t know if sleeping through the train noise helped but I’d like to think so.

I wouldn’t worry too much about it. I think it’s good for babies to get used to sleeping with a bit of noise in the background.
My son who is now 2 and a half is a great sleeper - we used to have noisy neighbors next door to us who would play music quite often, his room was against the wall of their front room. I used to worry it would ruin his sleep when we moved him into his room but it never bothered him at all.
When he napped downstairs we would still sometimes have the telly on and when he slept in our room (newborn to around 7 months) we’d be quiet but still carry on tidying, doing chores or whatever.
He sleeps through anything!

Dts were in NICU for 5 weeks - bright lights, beeps, general noise, slept like logs. When we left the nurses said don't be scared about noise wen they nap eg hoover, doorbell etc or you'll be forever on eggshells. My example is extreme, but so is moving house for a train line!

Mine was super sensitive to noise after the 4 month sleep regression but it sounds like we were the exception rather than the rule

Thank you everyone! Extremely helpful.

We had our daughter in her room asleep while doing very noisy DIY right outside. She (still) sleeps like a log, so no effect.

I’m a very light sleeper, I hate any noise generally.

I sometimes stay with a friend whose house backs onto a main line.

First night I stayed I steeled myself for a poor sleep and indeed I was aware of the trains. After the second night I wondered why they’d stopped running - of course they hadn’t, I’d just stopped noticing them!

I’ve stayed many times since & at most they are an unregistered white noise.