Are you extra quiet when they are taking naps?

When your babies are sleeping, are you extra quiet so as to not wake them up? My mom thinks that if I am extra quiet, the babies will be light sleepers! I told her that I am not going to purposely make noise and try and wake them up!!!

I guess I do try and stay quiet, ESPECIALLY around the 45 minute sleep cycle change...because I know I will disturb them from falling back to sleep....

Any thoughts on this? The twins are my first children, so I know it might be different if you have other children? Anyone have some advice about this?

 

For me naps are touchy, so I do make sure it's quiet. It has not made them light sleepers because at night (after 7pm) My hubby and I are not quiet. I mean we even play rock band and the babies don't wake.

 

I get loud lol! First, there are lots of kids here so the babies really do need to get use to the loud noises. I do use white noise in their room, a radio and a fan, to block out the "house noise". But I vacuum, talk, play with the kids. Just what i do. Don't know if it makes them a light sleeper or not.

 

I was semi-quiet...if that makes sense. I would wouldn't purposely go pass their room and make noise, but I wouldn't hold off on vacuuming and cleaning just because they were sleeping. Their naptime is when I power cleaned, so as soon as I knew they were good and asleep, I pulled out the vac, and went to work. They also had white noise in their room to drown out some of the outside noise...cars, vacuum, etc...which has helped. But I think it more depends on the child and not necessarily the environment.

 

At that age, not at all. In fact, my boys slept in the living room for their naps until about 5 months old. We did almost everything we'd normally do, and they generally slept. It wasn't until about 9 months that loud sounds started waking them, and my guys really aren't heavy sleepers.

Now we aren't super quiet, but they do sleep in their room with the door closed.

 

We made it a point to not be extra quiet when they sleep. From day one the tv was on and we were going about our business and talking normally. You want them to be able to sleep through pretty much anything all thier lives and get a good rest, so why not teach them to do that now? i dont worry that the dog barking or anything im doing will wake them. i can run the vacuum and they will still not stir because i didnt want them to think the world got all silent when they went to sleep. It doesnt. Also, i didnt want to have to try to readjust them to noise later on. Easier just to start them out with it.


Kenneth and Ian are 2 months and 3 days old

 

We never were. The phone could ring, I'd run the vacuum if need be, whatever. They can still sleep through all those noises.

 

I'm with your mom. She's not saying you should purposely make noise and try to wake them up. Just be normal. Do what you normally would. It is much better they get used to normal sounds now, it is very possible you will create light sleeping habits and it will be difficult for them to sleep when you are out and about.
One of the best things I ever did was got my girls used to sleeping in their stroller--it gave me so much more freedom to get out and about in the first and second year.

 

I didn't go to great lengths, but wouldn't vacuum and such (since they were scared of it!) but I think keeping it too quiet will bite you later!
Just go about your business and don't go to great lengths! Otherwise you'll have to always be quiet and you want kids that can sleep through some noise.

 

We used to have the girls nap in the lounge with normal daytime noise but once they got to about 3 months they would not fall asleep in the lounge for love nor money! They were far to interested in the worlkd around them than sleeping so we now have them in there cots with white noise turned right up. With the noise on i just go about the day as normal, 1 of my girls is a very light sleeper.

 

Tell your Mom that if she's that concerned about it, she can come over and vacuum and clean while the babies AND you nap! :lol:
I'm a smarta$$ though.

 

I agree with your mom but I don't go out of my way to make noise. I never try to be quiet though. I run dishwashers, vacuum, have the TV on, or whatever I need to get done.

I have a friend who was very quiet when her kids dropped. (I mean hearing a needle drop quiet) Both her girls still have major sleep issues and they are 12 and 7 y/o.

 

We were not extra quiet when they were newborns, because it seemed they could sleep through anything. And then from about 3-6 months they did most of their naps in the stroller (which, for the record, didn't do them any harm ). Starting around 6 months we did try to be quiet when they were napping, because we were desperate for them to sleep longer. And we kept that up until they started phasing out naps around age 3.5. They are very sound sleepers at night, and we don't have to be particularly quiet after bedtime, but it just wasn't worth the risk of waking them up at naptime.

 

We also have a 6 year old....need I say more? :lol:

 

I agree to a certain extend, I was quiet with my first ds and he had trouble napping unless he was in a dark, quiet room for awhile. I also was worried about waking him at night so after he went to bed I would go into my room to watch tv and everything, so it wouldn't wake him up. Not a good idea.

So with my dd I didn't do it so bad, and now she can sleep through anything (for the record my son can now too, he sleeps through his sister screaming at night when we did CIO).

The babes still nap in the living room and I have a 7 yr old, almost 3 yr old, the tv goes, I am on the computer or cleaning or doing dishes....etc. They nap easily in the stroller when we are out and about too. Makes life easier! Hopefully once they transition to longer naps I can put them in the bed, but this 20-30 min cat naps aren't worth the hassle!

 

Heck no!

My dogs bark, the doorbell rings, the trash truck or a car with a "shower fart" muffler drives by. . .

 

Do your babies a favor and listen to your mother lol!! MY mom stopped everything for me to nap when I was a baby.....and I am such a light sleeper....I have to have it perfectly quiet to sleep at all. In fact, I have noise makers in MY room, even still, and until the babies were born I wore ear plugs. Any little thing wakes me up. I go about my daily business but Im not super loud anyway. They seem to sleep right through it for the most part, and if they wake up, they seem to drift right back to sleep.

 

I didn't read the previous replies, but DH's mom kept the house ultra-quiet when he and his sister napped. To this day they both have sleep problems. EVERYTHING wakes them up. Everything. I made sure to allow normal household noises when mine were napping. Not someone blasting the stereo or something like that, but normal conversation, chores, that kind of thing.

 

My kids have been used to noise since when they were newborns. I never made any attempt to be quiet. I did (and do) shut their doors. They always have the white noise machine on and music. When they were really little, I'd run the vacuum or a CD of various noises and it helped them sleep. Thankfully, mine are not light sleeper. Dont know if the noise had anything to do with it or not...

 

I dont go out of my way to be loud or quiet.
The babies do sleep in their room, door closed and a sound machine playing (so that blocks alot of sound from us) our living room/kitchen are right off their bedroom.
But like others the phone rings, doorbell goes off, I run the dishwasher, watch tv, vacuum my house etc.
we've had no problems.

 

At 3 months, I did not go out of my way to be quiet or loud. At that age, they were still napping in the PNP bassinet or anywhere they fell asleep! When they got a little older, we transitioned them to their cribs and usually had music going (now a fan) and they can't hear much from their rooms, so neither DH and I go out of our way to exceptionally quiet for them.

 

We really try to go about our normal buisness. Really the only time that it is quite in our house is when they go down for bed at night. Even then, the TV can be on pretty loud and they won't wake up. During the day they will sleep better if there is noise, wether is be the washing machine going, shower, vacumn, or even the TV. We have always tried to adapt them to our routine (as far as noise goes) instead of us to them... But we had nephews that the mom always was super quite around the house when the babies were sleeping. The dad wasn't able to even watch TV when they were sleeping.. They would always wake up at the slightest noise later on.. they were really light sleepers so we didnt' want to have that situation happen..