What do you do with baby when there's fireworks at bedtime/in night

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Luckily we put her to bed 6mo an hour later last night not that it made any difference in her early wake up and thankfully we timed it after a bunch of crazy loud fireworks went off right over our house but she was still in my arms downstairs after being bounced to sleep so wasn't woken by them.

I'm worried now it's fireworks season. We've started leaving her upstairs until we go to bed (not more than an hour or two later) once she's asleep as she can roll both ways and is just over 6m. We use a video and audio monitor.

I'm tempted on nights where there's going to be loads of fireworks like tonight, bonfire weekend, nye to put her travel cot up in the lounge downstairs? AIBU?

What do you do if anything? How did /are your babies with fireworks?

White noise works for us even now DS is 4

My almost 18 month old has never been woken by them nor have I done anything differently. Last night they started going off as I got her out the bath and she was dancing to the bangs

Our baby isn't bothered. Dog barks, older kids are extremely noisy and she'll not stir. She fell asleep watching me deadlifting in the gym.

The big ones want to watch them from the window but go off to sleep eventually. Fireworks drive the dog crazy more than anything.

Just carry on as normal and reassure if they wake. They're either bothered or they're not. It's only one night a year that you hear a lot.

DD is disturbed by them on bone fire night and bye. We just stick to her normal routine and if she wakes up go back in to settle her down

Mine never woke up. Young kids don’t wake up for smoke alarms either.

Is this what parenting is these days? 🤣. They’re human babies, not animals with heightened sense. Your baby will probably sleep through, mine definitely did and fireworks don’t even last that long. Draw the curtains if you’re afraid of bright lights.

White noise - either actually on talk radio or radio 4 or in between stations on white noise or sleep sounds on an Alexa - works a dream for naps and sleep as bangs or a change in noise won't disturb!

They’ve never disturbed dc either. We did have a white noise machine that we used every night, I’d maybe turn that up slightly louder. But that’s it. Hope your baby sleeps through too!

My children were only woken by fireworks once, because they were set off a few houses away from us and they were incredibly loud! No idea where they got them from but they were the loudest I've ever heard.

I ran upstairs when mine was that age and excitedly took him out of his cot and proceeded to show him the fireworks out of the bedroom window. He seemed to really enjoy them. He is one now and we have booked fireworks night after seeing how much he loved them last year.

Ours weren't ever disturbed by fireworks when they were asleep but if they were at that stage halfway between awake and asleep they were. As others said, we just put other noise on to drown it out.

Both of mine are insanely light sleepers - hence why poor DD2 at 12 weeks has yet to enjoy an uninterrupted nap, thanks to her sister.

We play loud white noise for both of them and it seems to just about do the trick, though they do get a bit restless.

I ran upstairs when mine was that age and excitedly took him out of his cot and proceeded to show him the fireworks out of the bedroom window. He seemed to really enjoy them. He is one now and we have booked fireworks night after seeing how much he loved them last year

Babies are weird. They can sleep through a brass band rehearsing outside their window but woken by a pin dropping in another room.

Another one saying mine were never bothered by them, never woke them up. I wouldn't worry about it. Definitely don't change your routine by putting him down in the lounge.

Never understood being quiet when babies are sleeping, making a rod for your back. I used to hoover around the cot when mine were asleep, they never turned a hair.

I think the first night just do your normal and see. Eldest slept through every one and still does at 6. Twins slept through at just under one but I suspect won't this year. For Nov we'll prob jsit sit upstairs in the dark with them, for NY we might just give in and bring down

It didn't bother my sons when they were tiny but when my eldest reached around 2 it started to really affect him. He'd wake up to the fireworks,terrified, and cry his eyes out. He gets genuinely scared. Dreading the next few weeks of that. So glad there is more of a push for silent or low-bang fireworks now!