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Anxious about summer and noise

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summerstress4 · 28/02/2021 22:37

I have a young baby and live in a terraced house. My baby’s room is at the back and DH and I sleep at the front.

It’s a quiet street but I’m finding myself stressing about the warmer weather approaching and the impact it could have on my baby’s sleep.

I’m nervous that when the weather heats up, people will inevitably be sitting out in their gardens past my baby’s bedtime at 7pm (which they’re perfectly entitled to do!) and this could keep him awake.

How do you deal with this kind of noise and a baby - is disrupted sleep inevitable?

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Heartofstrings · 28/02/2021 22:37

White noise machine

minniemoocher · 28/02/2021 22:42

The best thing is to not be too quiet around your baby. Having the house silent is making a rod for yourself. Plenty of babies share rooms with siblings, live in flats, have to sleep in the only room the whole family share - and they cope fine with noise. Do try and talk to someone who can professionally reassure you that you are doing fine as a parent, you seem anxious.
My babies coslept and stayed with us until we went to bed, sleeping through many an action film, not to mention pushing them around to friends having parties and parking them in the corner. They grew up just fine

Bluntness100 · 28/02/2021 22:46

Agree your baby needs to get used to sleeping with low level noise, if you keep very silent it’s totally unsustainable.

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Walesrecommendations · 28/02/2021 22:49

Does baby normally wake to noise? Mine slept through workmen drilling through the pavement outside her window yet wakes up to the sound of my knees clicking as I try to creep out of her room

RampantIvy · 28/02/2021 22:52

The best thing is to not be too quiet around your baby. Having the house silent is making a rod for yourself.

I was given this advice when DD was a baby, and it was the best piece of unsolicited advice I ever received. If your baby can get used to sleeping through noise then it won't be a problem for you.

Persipan · 28/02/2021 22:54

My baby literally slept through a bomb detonation yesterday so I wouldn't worry too much!

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summerstress4 · 28/02/2021 22:55

We’re not silent in the house - we have dinner and watch TV. But if there is noise outside the window it’s sure to wake him up isn’t it? If people were talking and laughing outside my bedroom window it would wake me up, so I assume the baby will be the same!

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Bluntness100 · 28/02/2021 22:59

@summerstress4

Is his bedroom downstairs? Sorry it’s not clear If they are right out side his bedroom window then yes, it may wake him, but how is this? Do you not have a back garden either?

I think if he sleeps downstairs and they are right outside his window then yes but you could ask them to move away from the window.

But if this isn’t the case then obviously tv etc in in the house and people talking in the house is louder than outside.

Sorry, it’s not really clear where your child sleeps and how they are sitting outside his window,

Heartofglass12345 · 28/02/2021 23:03

You'd be surprised what babies can sleep through.
We live opposite a railway line, my boys' bedrooms are at the front and ours is at the back, we got woken up around 1am one night to the loudest noise ever. Opened the front door and they were working on the railway line, it was so loud we couldn't hear each other talking. Checked on the kids and they were fast asleep lol.
There isn't a huge amount you can do, maybe something musical to send him off to sleep?

imalmostthere · 28/02/2021 23:09

No he'll be fine, my dc room is at the back, they sleep through it fine. The lighter nights and mornings, there's the kicker!

GingerAndTheBiscuits · 28/02/2021 23:11

@Heartofstrings

White noise machine

Second this. We used it with our second because our first was loud and would wake her up. Used it for three years in the end as part of our bedtime routine.

Aria2015 · 28/02/2021 23:14

Yeah white noise machine or a fan if the room is hot. I live in 'town' and never had a problem with naps because of noise. Always used white noise and blacked out curtains. Two must haves for lovely naps imo!

DownstairsMixUp · 28/02/2021 23:18

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Rookie93 · 28/02/2021 23:20

Perhaps try playing soft music when you put the baby down, so they get used to the sounds and associate them with rest and sleeping. With our grandchildren we play gentle classical music for them to go to sleep. We've found it helps to soothe and relax them and they then sleep through almost anything.

indemMUND · 28/02/2021 23:22

Terraced house too. DD at the front, I'm at the back. I have earplugs for the ridiculous amount of banging, repetitive music in summer. I am seriously considering letting my neighbours become acquainted with my kind of music this summer. DD has always had white noise in the form of a fan. But what my neighbours clearly lack in their lives is high volume German heavy metal. I plan to introduce them this time around as I simply can't handle another summer of their thumping computer generated bullshit that reverberates around my bedroom.

JesusAteMyHamster · 28/02/2021 23:22

You don't need a white noise machine..... Just an echo dot will do. Ds is snoozing away now with a hairdryer sound on his.

AnnaSW1 · 28/02/2021 23:24

A white noise machine between the baby and the source of the noise will definitely do the trick.

BillMasheen · 28/02/2021 23:31

One of the very few positives of having a newborn hospitalised in SCBU is, when you do finally come home, they hand you a baby who can sleep through anything. And I do mean pretty much anything.

I roomed in, at the hospital and didn’t sleep a bloody wink for the noise, 24hrs of random banging, crashing, alarms, doors slamming , staff chatting etc etc. The baby, on the other hand... slept like ...well.... a Baby.

Start getting them used to increasing noise now, and you’ll be just fine.

Joiningthegossip · 01/03/2021 12:32

If it's a warm evening put on a fan, it's white noise. Will drown out the noise from outside

user1493413286 · 01/03/2021 12:35

I had my second baby last Feb and during the next few months with all the nice weather people were in their gardens a lot and there’s lots of gardens that back onto ours because of the way we’re positioned but it was actually fine

Thatwentbadly · 01/03/2021 17:58

Many under 12 yrs don’t wake up when the smoke alarm goes off. You will surprised what your baby may sleep through.

Aroundtheworldin80moves · 01/03/2021 18:04

My daughter slept through a brass band rehearsing outside her window once. Same child which seemed to have a radar that could sense if her pram got too near to the block of flats if I tried to sneak back home if she was asleep in the pram.
Babies are awkward. They can sleep through anything while being woken up by a pin dropping.

Harrysmummy246 · 01/03/2021 18:45

We live by a busy junction, with plenty of emergency vehicles, a swing bridge and barriers etc. Doesn't affect DS sleep at all- to be honest, most of his naps between 12 mo and 2 yo were outside in the pushchair while I tried to pull back some sanity in the garden.
What wakes him usually is either me closing my eyes, or if I'm not sleeping well, whatever time I finally drop into proper deep sleep. And his alarm clock doesn't always wake him....

ChaosMoon · 01/03/2021 19:23

Last summer we had a lot of noise from people partying outside DD's window. It took a bit longer to settle her to sleep but it didn't wake her up once she was asleep.

GintyMcGinty · 01/03/2021 19:26

Its best to actually be a bit noisy around your baby. If you are always quiet when putting them down to sleep then they will only ever sleep when its quiet. I used to carry own watching tv or chatting etc whilst they were in their moses baskets. I ended up with children who can sleep through anything.

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