white noise - getting rid of it?

[drivingmisscrazy]

DD, 11 months, was a tricky customer sleep-wise in her early months. With the aid of a routine, plus the intervention of white noise, we have got to the point now where she sleeps (mostly) well at night, plus 2 short naps in the day (she's sick or teething or something at the moment, so that's actually not currently true).

The white noise usually stays on for the duration of her naps (about 30-40 mins) and is used to put her to sleep of an evening. It goes off (hallelujah for i-pods) after about 40 mins and usually she stays asleep until morning.

My question is, when and how do we get rid of it? Cold turkey, gradual cutting down? Reduce volume?

I'd reduce the volume down bit by bit and see how it goes. We had to go cold turkey with DS1 when our ipod died and then laptop died (so no chance of playing the white noise to him) and it was fine -but he was around 3 months old at the time... As your DD is older you may need to phase it out gently.

why do you have to reduce it? If it works, don't change a thing! My ds had what he called his 'sugic" to go to sleep to (actually some Bach partitas - ponce alert) every night until he turned it off himself at about 4ish. He still asks for it sometimes now when poorly or sad or very tired and he's 8!

we had to go cold turkey as the ipod speakers died unexpectedly when she was about 7 months. we were utterly terrified of the consequences and approached sleep time with dread. she didn't even notice. in the end we realised we were doing it for our peace of mind.

when it came to sleep we did so many things for our benefit because we were so terrified of her not sleeping. i've learned if you are prepared to put up with 3 nights of disrupted sleep, you can basically wean them off anything/ implement other changes.

your babe may be different, though. good luck