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Noise and Sleep Question:
"For our 9-month-old baby, my wife and mother-in-law insist on having a classical CD play on repeat throughout the entire night. All night long! Whether you're 9 months or 90 years, I've been told that the best, deepest sleep comes when the room is totally quiet. I've bent my rules by allowing a fan for white noise, but I detest the music. Am I being too strict?"
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Permalink Reply by RockRpsgt on
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How does your baby sleep? If she/he seems to be sleeping well than I would not worry about it too much. Whatever sleep habits you teach the baby now will continue throughout it's life.
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Permalink Reply by Lee Longnecker on
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better soft music than flashing lights..such as the T.V
the little one may turn out to be the next Chopin!
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Permalink Reply by Mike on
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is that something that you've seen studies done on -- i.e., the premise that infant sleep "habits" persist into adulthood?
Rock Hinkle said:How does your baby sleep? If she/he seems to be sleeping well than I would not worry about it too much. Whatever sleep habits you teach the baby now will continue throughout it's life.
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Permalink Reply by sleepycarol on
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I truly believe that what we learn as children carry with us into adulthood, including habits, etc.
When we were children (there were six of us kids) we had a nine o'clock bedtime. That meant NO talking, TV, etc-- we were expected to go to sleep. To this day I go to bed fairly early.
In my own opinion, I think that a quiet room would be best just for the fact that getting the baby into the habit of having music playing all night is going to lead to problems later down the road. Why not compromise and have the baby go to sleep with soft music playing then have it shut off after an hour or so?
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Yes I have read studies on this. As Carol said we carry childhood habits into adulthood. We also imitate the behaviors we see in our parents and role models. If you teach you child to fall asleep with music it will become a learned habit. The same goes for a nightlight or fan. I see many patients that just can't fall asleep without the tv on. I had to completely re-educate my 9 year old daughter on how to sleep after apnea.
Mike said:is that something that you've seen studies done on -- i.e., the premise that infant sleep "habits" persist into adulthood?
Rock Hinkle said:How does your baby sleep? If she/he seems to be sleeping well than I would not worry about it too much. Whatever sleep habits you teach the baby now will continue throughout it's life.
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Permalink Reply by Mary Z on
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I have gotten used to sleeping with the TV on all night as my roommate cannot sleep without it to turn her mind off, otherwise she broods and worries and can't sleep. It's a small TV far away so though I have the flickering lights, the volumn is low and it doesn't seem to impact me anymore, in fact the voices on certain kinds of shows lull me to sleep. The horror is in what I wake up to- difficult baby deliveries, shows promoting exercise equipment (ab circle pro!), and juicers, or preachers wanting "$1,000 seed money".
Why the insistence on classical music all night long, what is their rational? Seems like there has got to be room to compromise.
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Permalink Reply by BeeAsleep on
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My daughter uses a white noise sleep machine in her babies room to mask out the sound of the rest of the household since they put the babies to sleep early. I imagine I would begin to dislike classical music if I had to hear it over and over again all night long. Then I would wake up like a cranky baby.
My son lets his daughter stay up until she falls asleep on the couch, she is 2 1/2. I have often wondered about good sleep hygiene starting at an early age. So the ability to self regulate sleep is learned, right Rock?
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Permalink Reply by Walt Service on
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With all four of our house apes, we've set bedtimes for them until they got into 8th grade. At that point the deal was/is that if they stay on the honor roll and don't often miss the morning bus, they set their own bedtimes...so far so good. As infants, we didn't setup any sort of sound devices in their rooms, but didn't try to keep the house quiet either, and again so far so good. The biggest issue/task has been instilling good sleep hygiene for them. I know many parents who have used music/white noise machines and that's fine (in my humble opinion) if it works for them...there are no cookie cutter fixes. But, in that same vein, and as others have mentioned, what is learned in childhood is quickly carried over to adulthood.
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I saw that Chase Carter became a member. I wonder if he has seen this post?
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Yes Bee the ability to self regulate sleep is mostly learned. In my opinion.
BeeAsleep said:My daughter uses a white noise sleep machine in her babies room to mask out the sound of the rest of the household since they put the babies to sleep early. I imagine I would begin to dislike classical music if I had to hear it over and over again all night long. Then I would wake up like a cranky baby.
My son lets his daughter stay up until she falls asleep on the couch, she is 2 1/2. I have often wondered about good sleep hygiene starting at an early age. So the ability to self regulate sleep is learned, right Rock?
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Permalink Reply by Judy on
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Giggle. By my fourth child I wised up. At 4 weeks if she cried during the night but her diaper was dry and she didn't need or want a bottle I just emptied a high dresser drawer, padded it w/some blankets, put her in it on the sofa, propped a couple of chairs against the sofa and went back to bed closing the bedroom door.
MEAN MOMMA!
It only took 2 nights and from then on she slept right on thru the night and back in her own crib. She was and still is our best sleeper!
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That sounds like a Kettle family moment Judy.
Judy said:Giggle. By my fourth child I wised up. At 4 weeks if she cried during the night but her diaper was dry and she didn't need or want a bottle I just emptied a high dresser drawer, padded it w/some blankets, put her in it on the sofa, propped a couple of chairs against the sofa and went back to bed closing the bedroom door.
MEAN MOMMA!
It only took 2 nights and from then on she slept right on thru the night and back in her own crib. She was and still is our best sleeper!
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