https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Mon, 11 May 2026 02:14:56 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/being-extra-quiet-when-lo-sleeps#post-946254 Fri, 19 Jul 2013 13:39:41 +0000 MrsF 946254@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We don't really worry about it when she is asleep for the night, but M is a very light napper and is cranky if she doesn't nap. We use white noise but I do try to limit the noise during nap time. At night I can walk into her room and adjust the fan or whatever and she doesn't wake up. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/being-extra-quiet-when-lo-sleeps#post-946185 Fri, 19 Jul 2013 13:21:57 +0000 cascademom 946185@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We use white noise, but loud, loud noises wake him up. Still trying to find the perfect balance of noise in the next room over when he's asleep. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/being-extra-quiet-when-lo-sleeps#post-946136 Fri, 19 Jul 2013 13:07:44 +0000 Pepper 946136@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LO sleeps through anything, so we just go about our business. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/being-extra-quiet-when-lo-sleeps#post-946126 Fri, 19 Jul 2013 13:06:11 +0000 katsupgirl 946126@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Sometimes I try to be quiet like when I just got her to fall asleep or when I just put her down. Other than that its regular noise. We have a dog and there's no reasoning with him. :happy: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/being-extra-quiet-when-lo-sleeps#post-946124 Fri, 19 Jul 2013 13:05:48 +0000 LuLu Mom 946124@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We are normal, we keep her bedroom door closed while we are awake and open it before bed, but she is always out when we check on her, so our noise doesn't affect her (even when I do laundry which is right by her room.) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/being-extra-quiet-when-lo-sleeps#post-946115 Fri, 19 Jul 2013 13:02:54 +0000 Ginabean3 946115@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We just go about our day normally with normal noise levels. LO is not fazed at all....probably since the first 57 days of her life she was in the NICU and there was always a machine beeping, baby crying, and people talking! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/being-extra-quiet-when-lo-sleeps#post-946114 Fri, 19 Jul 2013 13:02:41 +0000 chopsuey 946114@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We're normal, but we also have white noise running in both their rooms. Both kids are good sleepers! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/being-extra-quiet-when-lo-sleeps#post-946096 Fri, 19 Jul 2013 12:59:59 +0000 autumnlove 946096@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was Extra loud with my first and normal with my second. :-) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/being-extra-quiet-when-lo-sleeps#post-946052 Fri, 19 Jul 2013 12:42:44 +0000 mrs. 64 946052@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My aunt's house is always loud. When her first baby was born it was always loud when the baby was sleeping. Then she started worrying that the baby was deaf because she didn't turn or respond to loud noises. Of course she was fine, she was just used to all kinds of noise and ignored it! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/being-extra-quiet-when-lo-sleeps#post-945972 Fri, 19 Jul 2013 12:12:39 +0000 cmomma17 945972@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Pen: We're in an apartment with an open floor plan too. So even when LO is back in the bedroom I feel like we're in the same room as him. We use a white noise machine, keep a normal noise/activity level in most of the apartment and tread lightly/whisper when in the same room as a sleeping LO. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/being-extra-quiet-when-lo-sleeps#post-945870 Fri, 19 Jul 2013 11:37:40 +0000 edelweiss 945870@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>we maintain a normal level of noise (including watching tv which shares a wall with LO's nursery by the crib), but we have a white noise machine. i'm nervous about what would happen without the machine! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/being-extra-quiet-when-lo-sleeps#post-945814 Fri, 19 Jul 2013 11:19:23 +0000 Mrs. Pen 945814@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>This is the exact reason we use white noise for LO! We live in a 900 sq ft apartment and we wouldn't be able to do any chores, watch tv etc while he was sleeping without the white noise to "mask" the noise. Because of that we're free to do normal activities, but we still strive to be quieter than normal because he rooms is right off the main room (open kitchen, dining, LR floorplan)..</p> <p>In our last home, it was a 1500 sq ft townhouse, with bedrooms upstairs and main rooms downstairs so we never had to worry about masking noise at all since sound didn't carry up there. It was so nice! So he didn't actually start sleeping with the white noise until we moved to the apt when he was 7.5 months. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/being-extra-quiet-when-lo-sleeps#post-945809 Fri, 19 Jul 2013 11:17:41 +0000 bunnylove08 945809@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DD is a light sleeper. We tip toe around her because she will wake up if she hears a pin drop. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/being-extra-quiet-when-lo-sleeps#post-945808 Fri, 19 Jul 2013 11:17:26 +0000 Mrs. Bee 945808@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>we play white noise. can't live without it! noise definitely wakes up both kids, as evidenced by the many times charlie has woken up olive, so any time olive is sleeping we play white noise. charlie doesn't like having white noise play because he likes falling asleep to the sounds of us in the kitchen/living room.</p> <p>but when charlie was a baby, i definitely was super quiet... until we got white noise! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/being-extra-quiet-when-lo-sleeps#post-945805 Fri, 19 Jul 2013 11:16:59 +0000 lindseykaye 945805@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>At first we were totally normal, not extra loud but would talk and hang out with LO sleeping in the same room as us. As she has gotten older though she has become a lighter sleeper.<br /> Now, she gets pretty loud white noise to block out other sounds and while we live our lives (make dinner, watch TV, etc.) we are still careful not to make any excessive noise and I totally cringe if I drop something or the dog barks, though it rarely wakes her up. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/being-extra-quiet-when-lo-sleeps#post-945796 Fri, 19 Jul 2013 11:14:22 +0000 runsyellowlites 945796@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I've always been in the "just act normal" camp BUT with P I *had* to be more in the "sssssh baby is sleeping* camp b/c if you even walked upstairs or THOUGHT about going into the room (she was in our room where our bathroom was) she would wake up. It drove me crazy! She's grown our of it for the most part but she still doesn't sleep out of the house or in the car... she sleeps way to light! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/being-extra-quiet-when-lo-sleeps#post-945778 Fri, 19 Jul 2013 11:08:24 +0000 lomom 945778@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Normal... But LO has mild hearing loss (he gets hearing aids next month) so normal noises are pretty muffled to him. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/being-extra-quiet-when-lo-sleeps#post-945764 Fri, 19 Jul 2013 11:05:09 +0000 citymouse 945764@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No babes yet, just FT nanny experience, but I would only try to be quiet within 30 mins of the normal wake up time haha. I wanted those last few extra minutes! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/being-extra-quiet-when-lo-sleeps#post-945750 Fri, 19 Jul 2013 11:00:32 +0000 Bookish 945750@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Just normal noise. She seems to be a heavy sleeper, unless it's close to her wake up time anyways, so we have the TV on and talk normally for naps. At night we keep it down, no whispering but no loud TV, etc. Since she will be at daycare, it won't be silent during her naps, and we want her to be used to that. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/being-extra-quiet-when-lo-sleeps#post-945743 Fri, 19 Jul 2013 10:58:39 +0000 littlek 945743@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We don't do anything different. LO can sleep through anything! We have two yappy dogs and they don't affect his sleep at all. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/being-extra-quiet-when-lo-sleeps#post-945736 Fri, 19 Jul 2013 10:58:02 +0000 JoyfulKiwi 945736@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>For a long time we let anything go, although I don't think it was excessive noise. Now that he's nearly 10 months and a crap-tastic sleeper, I'm a little more cautious about extra noise. TV, doing dishes, making dinner - all fine. Loud talking, the neighbor revving his motorcycle - those make me tense up :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/being-extra-quiet-when-lo-sleeps#post-945710 Fri, 19 Jul 2013 10:53:47 +0000 HellOnHeels 945710@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Posting out of curiosity. I've seen both spectrums with parents - the ones who make sure everyone and everything is extra quiet when their LO is sleeping (be it naps or bedtime) to the point of whispering and the ones who have the TV blaring, laughing and talking and being pretty loud. And the inbetweens who act the norm.</p> <p>Friends of ours made sure from Day 1 that their kids would go to bed and stay asleep with regular noise. Another couple with a 1 year old are doing the same thing. My parents did this too. It didn't work well on me since I'm a natural light sleeper, but was fine with my brother. On the other flip side, my aunt is doing the exact opposite with her 15 month old. When she's been put down, you have to whisper or talk very quietly and certainly can't do anything that might wake her up. I don't know how she gets ANYTHING done... I know DH and I will probably side on the "kid has to learn to sleep with regular noise" kind of thing when the time comes for us.</p> <p>What do you do with your LO? Are you kind of in between? </p>