What lengths have you gone to....?

[TheBookAccordingtoIsaac]

To avoid waking a sleeping baby?

My son is 9 months now and after a rocky 7 months of little to no sleep my partner and I have found a routine that sends him off to sleep for the night.

Only problem is the slightest of noise wakes up the baby, and his room is right next to the bathroom so to keep him asleep we avoid flushing the toilet... it started with just pee but now we're at the poo stage. That's right! When it's brown we don't flush it down. Gross and ridiculous i know but that's just where we at.

So my question is what extreme lengths have you gone to to avoid waking a sleeping baby/child?

We’re the same. We live in a small house, our toddler is still in our room in a cot but wakes if we get into bed so we sleep on the sofa until he wakes up and comes into our bed. We also don’t flush the toilet, we basically didn’t go upstairs at all until about 6 months ago, he seems to have started sleeping a little deeper now so we can actually nip to the loo or have a shower. X

Not breathing, eating, sleeping.

None. Baby (3.5mth) sleeps through most noises, she actually struggled more with the quiet when she was 1st born. We have 5 other kids and a dog. She will sleep through when I'm doing deadlifts in our gym too. We never avoided noise with any of them and they adapted eventually, I would hate having to tiptoe around.

None here though I do play white noise for almost 6 month old DD.
In a small flat with a five year old to so it's just impossible tbh.

@TheBookAccordingtoIsaac

To avoid waking a sleeping baby?

My son is 9 months now and after a rocky 7 months of little to no sleep my partner and I have found a routine that sends him off to sleep for the night.

Only problem is the slightest of noise wakes up the baby, and his room is right next to the bathroom so to keep him asleep we avoid flushing the toilet... it started with just pee but now we're at the poo stage. That's right! When it's brown we don't flush it down. Gross and ridiculous i know but that's just where we at.

So my question is what extreme lengths have you gone to to avoid waking a sleeping baby/child?

That sounds very hard but I can totally understand the lengths you go to finally get a bit of sleep.

Have you tried playing white noise (before he falls asleep)? That might drown out other noises like the toilet flushing. Also some bathrooms have quite noisy exhaust fans, which might work as well.

I was going to suggest white noise too. We tend to keep really quiet at sleep times but when I really need to hoover downstairs or something I just play white noise loudly in their room and it works well.

Another one for white noise, then flush that loo! Haha

Current baby (3rd) is thankfully sleeping through most noises. But with our first- she would wake up at the slighest noise...we wouldn't even use the upstairs bathroom (next to the bedroom) but go downstairs loo instead. If we did it would be no flushing (poo reserved for downstairs lol).

We also had a pattern for walking up and down to avoid the creakys steps on our stairs. Also hush hush talking in the room directly below the bedroom because of how the house was designed you could hear everything from downstairs.

Bloody hell I used to vaccum round mine!!
in the days before 'white noise' was 'a thing'!!

@Santaischeckinglists

Bloody hell I used to vaccum round mine!! in the days before 'white noise' was 'a thing'!!

There's always one...

My elder DD would not nap. One sure way of getting her to sleep for 90 minutes in the afternoon was going for a walk with the pram. However she had this in built sense when we got too close to our home.

So I used to go for that afternoon walk. In the summer, I could sit in the park. By autumn... I was that person pushing the pram in the pouring rain for ages.

One day she did have a nap at home... while the local brass band rehearsed practically outside the window. Sent her straight to sleep!

We used to do the same, we also have a very loud pull light in the bathroom so we just didn't turn it on once DD was in bed I bought a bright night light instead.
Now at 2 she sleeps through everything even the doorbell ringing

Thanks. Some people just get on with life you know!!

@Santaischeckinglists

Thanks. Some people just get on with life you know!!

You just can't help yourself can you 😂

I was always told to carry on with normal routine noises even if baby is asleep as they eventually learn to tune out those sounds, by the time i had babies 3&4 there was no way possible of keeping a 5yo and 3yo quiet while they napped, now my kids 11, 9 and 6 sleep through thunderstorms 😂

We have a very light sleeper too and the only way he'll sleep is with white noise (actually vacuum sounds). I did try the "make as much noise as possible while they sleep" technique, as everyone said I should, hence doing a lot of vacuuming but that's the only noise he can tolerate or he just wakes up 🤷🏼‍♀️