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I don't know if train is the right word, but generally yes, I think you can set up babies to sleep where there is noise. Our newborn napped in the living room in her bassinet, where there was plenty of light and sound. We never created an all-dark, all-quiet environment for her to "need". Though, I'm sure some babies do better with particular set-ups. The majority of the world, and history, didn't have the the luxury of dedicated baby bedrooms with white noise machines and black-out curtains. People are fairly adaptable.

@pmrlady: she's 28 months. Today we went to Octoberfest with a really loud band playing and tons of people, and she slept in the Tula carrier on me for over an hour

She started daycare at 12 weeks, so she's never had an all-quiet napping option. For nighttime sleep, we've always watched tv, made/ate dinner while she's slept. The bedroom is upstairs, so there's that buffer, but we've never been especially quiet.

DS doesn't mind some noise, but a loud noise, like dropping a remote onto the hardwoods would wake him. He's 19m and will sleep through quite a bit, but DH is really bad about slamming doors and banging around in the kitchen during naps and that does wake him up. He also picks bedtime to blast zombie movies with loud, crazy scenes, which keeps DS up. I think just normal conversation and the tv on a lower volume will be fine!

We started trying to exposure to noise during naps and it worked in that she slept well through noise...... When she slept. But that was not much. I finally hot sick of going all day with just a few super short naps and a tired baby and moved her to our bedroom to nap in quiet. Immediately her naps stretched to 1-2+hrs! Much happier baby. But yea.. She sleeps lightly now. Worth it, IMO.

Around 4 months DH would stir a bit when we came to bed so we moved him to his own room shortly after I'm sure if you're not super loud they will get used to some notice. DS still doesn't wake up when the dogs bark like maniacs at a passing leaf.

I think babies are in general pretty adaptable, so yes. My LO finds it hard to go to sleep if there are random noises...constant noise is fine. Then once she's asleep, she's good. Fireworks, thunder, barking dogs...not a problem. We never really used white noise though, so maybe that helped.

I didnt muffle our noises or try extra hard tobe quiet when LO was first born either. It went smoothly when he was little. He would sleep anywhere regardless of noise. But when he hit 3 months or so he became a super super light sleeper. Any small noise would wake him. He was sleeping in his own room at this point so it wasn't so bad...but we now have a white noise machine so we don't have to tiptoe around the house after he goes to bed.

Everyone asks me why I didn't train him to be used to loud noises while sleeping when they hear he's a light sleeper. It makes me mad! It's just his personality and just how he is I guess.

I read that the volume of all the noise baby hears while inside you is like having a vacuum running right beside their ear. So we just made sure to go about our business normally around her once she was born. She naps in the living room in full light and noise during the day and we watch tv or read and chat at night in bed with her in the bassinet and she sleeps through it all. I've taken her to an outdoor bbq party with a loud band playing and a mommy/baby group with about 20 moms visiting and 20+ babies and toddlers screaming and playing in a gym with high echoing ceilings and she sleeps through it all. Fingers crossed she continues.