light sleeping...hints and tips

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My 18 month sleeps very very lightly so that any noise wakes him.... quiet as the noise is

been like this since birth

advice?

reluctant to get him to sleep with radio/noise as i think it would busy his brain rather than rest it

but do babies learn to sleep more deeply as they grow older?? currently if i walk by room he wakes up, if i am heating kettle in kitchen, etc and etc and hubby cant go to loo in night etc

driving us slowly mad!

yup same here and would love to hear soem tips - my dd 6 is a really deep sleeper and our ds 22 months well i could break wind downstairs and he would murmur.... so to speak (i dont actually ...)

yes

yes yes exactly the same... starts to murmur....when hears a teeeny tiny noise and there you go...awake!!!!

I once watched something, (might have been baby whisperer), and she put a radio on in the bedroom on white noise on the very lowest setting (i.e just about audable), as the nights went on she increased the noise ever so slightly until the lo was sleeping with general house noise. It worked wonders.

the annoying thing is he has turned me into a really light sleeper so i always go in at a murmur to settle him before he fully awakes grrrrrrrr

through the day i cant wake him from his nap - hes out cold - its ona night hes easily disturbed...

thanks for that...might have to rersort to this

sometimes i think single noises are worse in waking lo so a clang of a plate, floor board, phone call...etc etc...would white noise help in this way too??

nappy same here...day bit better than night which is way worse!!!

bumbly i feel your pain! Were moving our ds into a bed this weekend so god kows how that will affect it all....... Look fwd to seeing how you get on with your experiments! Our day nap is hopefully going to go soon to so hoping this will help tire him eout - hes 25 months bythe way not 22 (i lost that 4 months somewhere inthe fog

or 3 or even 5 see i am knackered!

my ds is a light sleeper too but can't be woken when he is asleep in his pram in the day.

he's 11 mths. he bfs all bl.oody night, tried everything in ncss not worked and got noisy neighbours from hell.

why don't they sleep? anyone had a light sleeper that grew out of it?

my ds is oposite, sleeps like a log at night but the slightest noise in the day and he's awake and crying/ grizzling/ tantrumming cos he's only had 30 minute nap all day. he always wakes up an an awful mood from a nap and is pretty foul all afternoon as he'd rather be asleep but won't give in. hes 18 months too but just glad he sleeps ok at night.

Dd1 is and always has been a light sleeper, but it is only certain noises that wake her, so a smoke alarm going off outside her room won't wake her, but someone coughing 3 rooms away will! She used to wake up every night when we went to bed. Then I read about the white noise/music thing (in No Cry Sleep Solution). Since then we listen to a cd of lullabies or classical music whilst we read stories, then when they (dd's share a room) fall asleep I turn it down very low so that it is just audible, and leave it on repeat. It does work most of the time, to the extent that neither of them wake if the other is screaming, coughing etc, and they don't wake up when we go to bed. If it is that 5 o'clock light sleep time, they do wake up and the day begins!