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My baby won't sleep with noise. Please help!!!

post #1 of 11
9/27/04 at 10:41pm
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My baby is 7 1/2 months old. She never has been a good at taking naps. I have finally gotten her to take 2 naps a day if it is very quiet in the house. It is so bad that if she hears the floor creek she is awake and crying. I have tried letting her cry it out. I have tried the "babywise" method. I have read many books and just can't seem to get my baby to sleep well. I hate having to tip toe through the house every day. I turn all the phones off sometimes just so she will sleep. Can anyone give me some suggestions? This is my first baby and I have so many questions. I hope someone can help.

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post #2 of 11
9/27/04 at 11:13pm
Hi, you might want to try going into the room a few times a day where there is white noise, fan humming, oceans waves/rain cd or something... PLay with her in there so she gets used to it, do you nurse?? I used to let Emily fall asleep on me that way she got used to noise around us. (i have 3 dogs, so there is quite the noise level sometimes)...when i switched her to her crib for naps, i put the fan on in her room just for noise.. she is doing well now on her own...

good luck and let us know how it goes..
Kimmie
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post #3 of 11
9/28/04 at 8:58am
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Taiboo, thanks for the advice. I forgot to mention that she does sleep with noise if I am holding her. It is when I lay her in her crib. Also, I did purchase a "white noise" machine. It does help some but she seems to know when we are up and moving around. She slept through the whole night again last night. I think she is afraid she is going to miss something. I am nursing her along with solids. My schedule is. . . she wakes around 6:30am - 7:00am I nurse her. I feed her cereal around 8:30 and then at about 9:00 to 10:00 I nurse her again and then put her down for a nap. If it is quite she will sometimes sleep for 1-2 hours. At noon or 12:30 I will feed her baby food. She plays until about 2-3 then I nurse her again and put her back down for a nap. She will sleep sometimes for about an hour. She then eats dinner at 5:00, plays, eats cereal at 7:30, gets a bath around 8:00. I read to her after her bath and then she gets ready for bed around 8:30 - 9:00. She usually gets real fussy after her afternoon nap. Sometimes I think she could use an evening nap but then she won't go to be early. It is always a struggle of what to do at night. I have tired giving her an evening nap. Sometimes she would take it and we would be up until 11:00 at night waiting for her to get tired again. Other times she just completely refuses to nap. Does this schedule look normal and do you have any suggestions? Thanks so much. I am a very anxious new mother and want to do everything right. We had a rough start due to my daughter getting the RSV virus when she was only 3 weeks old. She was in the hospital for a very long time. Thankfully she is doing well now and is a plump healthy little girl.
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post #4 of 11
9/28/04 at 9:30am
wow you baby schedule is the same as mine emily takes a afternoon nap from 3-5pm and she doesn't go to sleep until 9:30-10pm. Try turning the volume up on the noise machine, or get something alittle louder, so she will get used to it...maybe she has to experience different sounds??? Emily sleeps amazing during her naps in her room, my husband has been renovating my kitchen and the noise from that isn't waking her up (hammers saws, drills) so i guess she can sleep through anything.

let us know!!!
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post #5 of 11
9/29/04 at 1:19am
since ive been pregnant ive always slept with soft jazz music on. Maybe if you start to get her use to listening to soft jazz such as Sade, um Noah Jones just to name a few and get her use to it shell learn to adjust. if she likes disney channel like playhouse disney put that on while she takes her morning nap so she can focus on that and maybe shell fall asleep on her own. Raymond sometimes watches a dvd or something right before he falls asleep for bed but just to tired him out, he is knocked out within 1 5 mins of the movie.. but when it comes to nap, soft jazz music calms and relaxes him. they use to tell me when he was a newborn not to get him use to no noise when he is sleeping otherwise he will not be able to sleep with anything on, but now a freakin train will go buy and he wont even have a clue. try that and let me know.
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post #6 of 11
9/29/04 at 2:37pm
I really don't know any advice to give you. When I was pregnant with rhyne I would listen to loud music (it helps I have huge speakers in the car, and I would 'bump') We would stand right next to her uncle and some friends playing electric guitars with amps turned up and she would just go straight to sleep.
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post #7 of 11
9/29/04 at 8:59pm
My thought might be in the morning, she could be over tired. I know typically Justin is ready for a nap about 1 1/2 hours after he gets up. How much sleep is she getting at night? Justin sleeps from 6/7 to 6/7 in the morning. When I complained to the doctor about his 45 minute nap, she said he is getting all the sleep he needs during the night. If you are trying the white noise, then I am at a loss. If she will sleep with noise while you are holding her, I bet it is more that she is in the crib then the noise and yes, the noise is breaking through and then she realizes she is not in your arms. I lived with Justin taking these short naps for months. I hope it gets better for you.
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post #8 of 11
9/29/04 at 11:03pm
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Thanks for all your advice. I will try using some music to get her use to the noise. I know it will take time. I'll just keep working at it.
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post #9 of 11
9/30/04 at 1:04am
Good luck! I know Logan needs white noise to sleep.. without it he hears way too much!
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post #10 of 11
9/30/04 at 6:39pm
I know this has nothing to do with noise but when I used to put My DD down for her nap I used to put one of my shirt in the crib so she could smell me. I found that it help a lot.
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post #11 of 11
9/30/04 at 8:16pm
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des02

Thanks, I'll try that.
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