https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Thu, 09 Jul 2026 06:22:05 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/can-you-train-a-heavy-sleeper-to-wake-up#post-35484 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:24:03 +0000 chopsuey 35484@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think having a baby usually makes people more sensitive sleepers. My sister was the heaviest sleeper in the world. I would wake up to the sound of her alarm, but she'd be fast asleep. -.-<br /> Now that she's taking care of my dog, she's become a more sensitive sleeper! :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/can-you-train-a-heavy-sleeper-to-wake-up#post-35173 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 11:03:35 +0000 mrsjazz 35173@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrstilly: Thanks, I will look into those vibrating baby monitors. Those incidents with your husband were scary--and I have the exact same worry--if there's ever an emergency and he's sleeping, I won't be able to count on him. We also don't have a home phone, but it wouldn't matter. When we did, the same thing happened!</p> <p>@artbee: I hope you're right! I guess we'll have to wait and see if his sleep patterns change once the baby's here.</p> <p>@Mrs. Bee: Two baby monitors is a great idea. I wish the baby would come out talking because my husband wakes up easier to the sound of someone talking to him.</p> <p>@Lozza: 10 alarms in his room! I should suggest that to my husband. He always puts his alarm away from the bed so that he has to walk to turn it off--and then I have to listen to it for an hour before I get pissed and turn the damn thing off. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/can-you-train-a-heavy-sleeper-to-wake-up#post-35129 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 09:47:55 +0000 mamabolt 35129@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Haha my DH is the same way, so I'll be watching this thread with interest! I hear him sleep through his alarm every single morning! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/can-you-train-a-heavy-sleeper-to-wake-up#post-35117 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 09:33:36 +0000 mrstilly 35117@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I totally get where you are coming from. DH is a very heavy sleeper too. He will fall alseep anywhere when he's tired and doesn't hear the phone or knocking. When I was home taking care of DS during my maternity leave, DH would sleep through everything! It was frustrating, but he went back to work at 3 weeks, so I let him sleep.<br /> Then when DS was 12 weeks old DH was home with him for the summer. DH doesn't sleep any lighter, but he is much more attuned to DS and wakes when he hears him. We can both tell the hurt/scared "real"cry from the fussy cry, and we both bolt out of bed when we hear it. DH now wakes during the night before I do most of the time. And in the mornings he hears DS right away, while I'm sleeping more heavily at that time. So DH has definitely been "trained" to hear DS while he's sleeping. </p> <p>There were two scary incidents. Once, I called to say I was coming home, and when I got home DH was asleep in the bed and DS was in the crib screaming. DH never heard him. Thankfully I knew everything was okay 10 minutes earlier, so I wasn't too upset, but it still scared me. Since then DH doesn't nap during the day unless someone is home and we got a very loud monitor that he sets right next to him. </p> <p>The other incident was a little while ago when I hit a deer with my car during a run to town for diapers. I called about 30 times and he never woke up. I wasn't hurt and made it home okay, but it does scare me that he won't wake up if something serious happened. We don't have a home phone either, so I have to rely on his cell being on high and charged. </p> <p>Also, Graco makes a few models of baby monitors that vibrate (and I'm sure other brands do as well). The portable part doesn't look that big, so maybe you can have your DH keep that with him while he's home with the baby and the combination of noise/vibration will wake him. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/can-you-train-a-heavy-sleeper-to-wake-up#post-35101 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 09:21:30 +0000 Lozza 35101@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Bee- That totally happened to us in the hospital after DS was born too. I started throwing stuff at DH to wake him up.<br /> DH also took a nap on the floor of the delivery room while I was in labor. That man can sleep ANYWHERE. It's his superpower. </p> <p>@mrsjazz My husband was totally the same way. I used to say that I wanted some kind of remote activated shock collar that he could wear around his ankle so I could wake him up in case of an emergency. In college he had like 10 alarms spread throughout his room, and even then, he was still late to class half the time.</p> <p>He's better with DS. Not perfect- it can still take him a while to wake up (like, sometimes he won't wake up till DS is full-in screaming), but I've never known him to totally sleep through a screaming fit. We just turn on the monitor as loud as possible.<br /> Also, maybe for naps, is there anywhere in the baby's room that he could nap? Might be more likely to wake up if he is a.) less comfortable and b.) three feet from the baby. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/can-you-train-a-heavy-sleeper-to-wake-up#post-35095 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 09:12:56 +0000 Mrs. Bee 35095@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>wow that sounds like a heavy sleeper! mr. bee was a pretty heavy sleeper, but he definitely became a much lighter sleeper when he was taking care of charlie. i remember when we were in the hospital after charlie was born, charlie was wailing his head off a couple feet from where mr. bee was sleeping and he didn't wake up. that scared me for what was to come!</p> <p>but now mr. bee even hears charlie before i do sometimes! i used to be the lightest sleeper when it came to charlie noises, but now that i can depend on mr. bee, i actually became a heavier sleeper.</p> <p>i think the best thing to do is have him have the baby monitor with him at all times on the highest volume. maybe even two baby monitors! those things are really loud. if he wants to take a nap, he should sleep with a baby monitor on each side of his head. </p> <p>good luck! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/can-you-train-a-heavy-sleeper-to-wake-up#post-35066 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 08:37:38 +0000 heffalump 35066@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm also a very heavy sleeper. People say you become a lighter sleeper when you have a baby, but that didn't happen with me. I don't nap during the day because I'm terrified I won't get up if my baby is crying. Which sucks because I'm exhausted... but it's just not worth it to me, and I'd worry so much that I couldn't sleep anyway. My husband wakes me up every morning when the baby wakes up so I can go to her.</p> <p>My husband went out of town one weekend and I was so terrified of not waking up for the baby that I barely slept, and of course was already awake when she woke up. But if he's home I know that he'll wake me up or go get her himself so I don't have to worry about it and I sleep well.</p> <p>Maybe your husband will be one of those people who becomes a light sleeper.... and maybe not. But either way you guys will figure something out. My baby has never been left screaming because I was sleeping through it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/can-you-train-a-heavy-sleeper-to-wake-up#post-35042 Thu, 15 Dec 2011 23:36:31 +0000 mrsjazz 35042@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I wasn't sure which category to put this in.</p> <p>My husband is an extremely heavy sleeper. He sleeps through alarms, cell phones ringing, television, radio--everything! He can sleep anywhere and can't seem to keep himself up when he is tired. Once he put the chain on our apartment door (by accident) and fell asleep even though I wasn't home yet. I was stuck outside banging and yelling on the door and calling his cell phone (which I could hear ringing and was near him) for about an hour before he finally woke up.</p> <p>This scares me often when I'm coming home alone or late--he would never know if something happened to me because he doesn't hear the phone.</p> <p>Now that we are expecting...I know he's not going to wake up when the baby is crying and he will be home with the baby during his summer break--what if he takes a nap during the day and doesn't hear the baby? I'm super uncomfortable and nervous about this.</p> <p>Any advice? Help! </p>