White Noise if already a good sleeper?

[owloak]

Hi! I'm wondering what people's opinions are on using White Noise for a 4 month old baby who sleeps well without it.

I want to stop using it at night as the baby is sleeping fine without it. When it's off I can actually hear the baby breathing quite clearly, which I cannot hear when the machine is on. And finally, quite frankly I'm sick of listening to it myself!

But I can't bring myself to go without it due to its benefits around SIDS. I've been googling trying to find more info in to it, but google says as long as there is some noise, eg a fan humming. The thing is, we do have a fan in the room as well that is always on. So would this have the same impact as the white noise machine?

This is my first baby and i think on the whole I haven't stressed too much about most things, but i admit I have moments of stress in relation to safe sleep.

Any advice?

I'm sure the fan will have the same benefit as the white noise. We started with one of those sheep things that make noise but our DS slept fine with or without it. I'm quite pleased now we didn't carry on using it as he is able to self settle. I didn't know it had been given as a SIDS risk

@fandjango thank you for your reply.

I've just had a google too and you are right there isn't a lot of information is there. This has said that a fan would be good to have going so I think you'll be ok with that. I liked to hear the baby too and the white noise can drown it out a bit can't it. I'm still checking the monitor now to make sure DS is breathing and he's just turned two. I don't know if that fear will ever go away!

At 4 months you've got a whole load of sleep ups and downs ahead of you. Great she's sleeping well now but it might not last! We've continued using it and it works well as a sleep cue - our daughter is 17 months now and knows when it goes in it's sleep time. It also blocks out some background noise from the house so we don't have to worry about being quiet. I don't think there is any evidence of it doing any harm so long as it's at an appropriate volume.