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How quiet are you once you put baby to bed?

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moomin35 · 08/03/2015 22:56

Do you make as much noise as you like - toilet flushing, tv on etc or do you make an effort to keep really quiet?

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DramaAlpaca · 08/03/2015 22:59

We used to make normal household noise, not making any particular effort to keep quiet.

The result was two DC who could sleep through anything and still do, and one who has always woken at the slightest sound.

McFox · 08/03/2015 23:03

We're never quiet and we live in a small flat with DS's bedroom in between the kitchen and livingroom! Tonight we've had the tumble drier, washing machine and Hoover going and we've been chatting as we cleaned and tidied in different rooms - he's not stirred once! Get them used to sleeping through noise early on I say

MaudeLebowski · 08/03/2015 23:03

I carried on with life as normal. No screaming and shouting, but I don't do that anyway. TV on at a normal volume, no need to panic when the doorbell rings and flushing the toilet as per usual.

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callamia · 08/03/2015 23:03

We're just normal. We vacuum downstairs, talk etc. We'd never do anything otherwise.

InkleWinkle · 08/03/2015 23:05

Depends if I tell you about when DD1 was small or when DD2 came along!

PenguinsandtheTantrumofDoom · 08/03/2015 23:07

Normal noise but wouldn't hoover or do diy upstairs.

Depends on the child though. my parents made normal noise and I am a freakishly light sleeper.

eurochick · 08/03/2015 23:08

She's still in our room at the moment but as a rule we don't try to be particularly quiet when she sleeps. I think it is better for her and us that way.

BouleSheet · 08/03/2015 23:10

Depends on the child. With my first we could hold (and did often) a disco downstairs and she'd snore on through whereas with my second child we couldn't sneeze but he'd wake up - and not settle for ages. He's a bit better now but definitely a much lighter sleeper than his sister. I don't think we did anything different - from day one he napped better when put upstairs in his room rather than in the crib in the kitchen (whereas DC1 would sleep wherever she was if it was nap time).

KeturahLee · 08/03/2015 23:24

Normal noise, including putting older DD to bed in the same room later.

MrsBojingles · 08/03/2015 23:40

Normal noise, including DH doing noisy DIY in the room next door. She slept through hammering, sawing, drilling... But the hammer drill into masonry woke her up ( not surprisingly!)

Cafeconleche · 08/03/2015 23:46

Not particularly quiet, carried on as normal -TV on, toilet flushing, phone ringing etc with the result that DS now has to have talk radio on low all night....

ShadowSpiral · 09/03/2015 00:01

Normal noise here too.

Only real exception is that we don't hoover upstairs after their bedtime.

FacebookDramaYo · 09/03/2015 00:07

Normal noise;

Lights on and off
Tv on till 2/3am some nights
Toilet flushing
Hoovering all rooms and sometimes his.
Up and down the stairs
Closing and opening doors
Music
Showers

I did the same when he slept on my room and Will do the same with this one. I know someone who would watch TV on mute so she didn't wake her DS he's now scared of the Hoover and anything remotely above talking level which she chalks up to that

mumofboyo · 09/03/2015 08:06

We still flush and run the taps etc as normal but we're very quiet in other areas: the tv gets turned down to the lowest volume no. possible and we don't use the strip light in the kitchen because it's directly below dd and the buzzing noise wakes her up (same as it did me when I lived with my mum. The incessant bzzzzzzz used to do my head in). We don't do household chores such as Hoovering or washing at night because I usually do them during the day. When the dc go to bed I put my feet up.

timeforsleepnow · 09/03/2015 09:48

I think it depends on the situation. After 7 months of LITERALLY no sleep, I mean hourly or 20minute-ly wake ups through out the night, we sleep trained and now 8 month old dd is doing very, very well with her sleep.
So we creep around, quieter than the quietest thing. Whispering, no toilet flushing, TV on low etc etc. I am hoping that we can gradually increase the amount of noise and she will get used to it but at the moment NOTHING can get in the way of sleep, anything noisy can wait until the morning.

NaiceNickname · 09/03/2015 10:31

With DD we were really quiet, still had the TV on but closed doors quietly, didn't hoover etc. There was never a lot of noise anyway because it was just me and DH. She used to wake up at the sound of a pin dropping but now 5 yo and will sleep through anything.

DS is 11 weeks old and it's a bit hit and miss at the moment. Obviously can't be quiet all the time with DD here and I won't keep shushing her but it does take him a while to drop off if there is a lot of noise around him at home. Out and about he is fine but he seems to prefer calm and quiet to sleep at home.

teacher54321 · 09/03/2015 12:26

Ds (3yo) is in a very deep sleep in the evening/overnight, but he wakes at the slightest noise after about 5am, so we tiptoe in the early morning if we need a wee! We wouldn't Hoover upstairs whilst he was asleep, but the smoke alarm has gone off and he's slept through it, fireworks on NYE etc!

TarkaTheOtter · 09/03/2015 12:30

We started off making a lot of noise with dd but she was an incredibly light sleeper so we had to be quieter otherwise she would wake constantly.
She's now a heavy sleeper and we can be noisy again.
Ds has always been a heavy sleeper so we make more noise.
I get a bit fed up when people used to assume that dd was a light sleeper because we were quiet rather than the reverse causality.

dodi1978 · 09/03/2015 13:17

Anything from normal noise to DIY here as well. In fact, I think DS is such a good sleeper because in pregnancy, he wasn't exposed to classical music but to power drills...

cpic · 09/03/2015 17:48

normal noise up to and including a power drill in the next room. All our best DIY gets done post-bedtime

FacebookDramaYo · 09/03/2015 19:49

For all the none flusher's, What happens if one of you goes for a poo? If you don't flush do you just keep peeing and pooing on top of it and save it to the morning?

It's kind of gross.

Needsweetstosurvive · 09/03/2015 20:22

Ha ha FacebookDramaYo! Maybe they have two toilets, one for pee and one for poo. Two DS's here, one 6yo and one 11 months. We flush if needed, TV normal volume, talking normally, no panic with phone or door bell. No hoovering though, I do that during the day and chill out when they go to bed! I was worried with DS1 to start with but I soon learnt nothing woke him. DS2 has to sleep through his big brother's noisy bath time and bed time story so he is used to noise too.

FacebookDramaYo · 09/03/2015 20:36

Haha I have two but I can hear the downstairs WC upstairs as if it was upstairs lol. I'm generally curious I couldn't leave pee or poo in the toilet till the kids where awake I need to go like 50 times a night haha

LuluJakey1 · 09/03/2015 22:22

We just carry on as normal. DS 10 weeks, sleeps through us listening to music in the bedroom, watching TV on ipads.

Downstairs he sleeps through hoovering!

However, is scared of DH making lion noises.

poocatcherchampion · 09/03/2015 22:27

Normal in the evenings but quiet for day naps. They are too precious to risk. But quiet means no shouting or slamming doors not whispers..

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