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Using white noise machine

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mummytobabygirl17 · 03/09/2019 21:47

Hi
Does anyone’s LO still like a white noise on to go off to sleep of a night time?

Our LO is 21months old and will sleep without it but some nights it’s on if we’re moving about in the house or if she having a nap at a family member house and lots of noise.

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Navy123 · 03/09/2019 21:49

DS is 19m and has it on for naps and all night. His sleep is crap so I don't dare take it away - it does seem to help him transition between sleep cycles and get off to sleep in the first place.
He'll be in his 70s still using it at this rate.

Linzbe · 03/09/2019 21:56

Our 22 month old has had one since the day she was home from hospital.
It's an Ollie the Owl so has a noise sensor, really helps settle her if she's woken by noise, not planning on taking it away anytime soon!!

bookishtartlet · 03/09/2019 22:06

My son is 4 and we still use a box thing with lights, moving on from the dream sheep. He can sleep without it though. We bought one for our room too, I fall asleep much faster with it.

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Rosebud1302 · 03/09/2019 22:18

I still have white noise to sleep (a fan in our room) and I don't plan on taking it away from my one year old anytime soon. It helps him sleep and stay asleep like me so I'm absolutely fine with that!

JoyceDivision · 03/09/2019 22:23

We used to switch the vacuum cleaner on and leave it stood outside the DC room!

Have you looked at pink noise?

Marcipex · 03/09/2019 22:27

I’m 58 and I like it.
I prefer pink noise though. It is the middle ranges with highest and lowest frequencies omitted. There are free examples on YouTube.
Does it matter if your little one has it for years though? Are there any downsides?

Seahawk80 · 03/09/2019 22:35

DS is 2 (26 months) and still has it. Don't want to stop anytime soon as he only started sleeping through 6 months ago and we live in a ground floor flat which we love but has rubbish soundproofing. Is there any reason to stop it?

ElfCakes · 03/09/2019 22:46

My 2yo still has it sometimes, if he's a bit unsettled or there are people in the house so a bit more noise. He had it every night til about 4 months ago when we just thought we'd see how he got on without it and he was fine! We kept it at nap time for a bit longer though. Tbh if he'd needed it longer that would have been fine too, we only stopped it because we were playing white noise from an app on the iPad and we wanted it back in an evening! (So to be cheeky and tag onto your post, if anyone can recommend a good white noise machine for DC2 I'd be interested to hear your thoughts!)

SnowdropFox · 03/09/2019 22:47

I've been curious about this too. We use water noises for our 12m dd. She sleeps at least 11hrs a night and has done since 9 weeks.

My only concern was hearing issues but I've not heard of any evidence saying it is damaging to their hearing. In our house its not on too loud (i don't think) or close to her head (sits on a chest of draws on other side of the small room) so I'm as happy as I can be. Still niggles at me sometimes though.

Rosebud1302 · 04/09/2019 08:00

@ElfCakes we bought a really cheap standing fan (not pointing at ds) to use as we wanted our iPad back too!!! Although it now just sits on the bedside table instead.

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