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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.

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!

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!

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.

but when charlie was a baby, i definitely was super quiet... until we got white noise!

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)..

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.

@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.

I was Extra loud with my first and normal with my second.

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!

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.

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.