What do you think?

My BFF always has the TV on in her house. Always. Even when she's not watching it, it's on. It's "background noise" apparently. Her baby is now 9 months old and she is emphatic about the need to keep the house light and noisy during daytime naps, in the early days, to teach the child the difference between night and day and to get them used to sleeping when there isn't complete silence. There's no denying her baby slept wonderfully anywhere and everywhere until he was about 7 months old (when she had to nap train anyway!) but he was a really relaxed, easy baby.

We've got a sensitive baby - if we miss her early hunger or sleep cues, it doesn't take long for her to go into full meltdown mode. If we let her get overtired it's carnage! At 11 days old, she really needs her sleep and yet she struggles to go down. Swaddling helps a lot but I can't help but think she needs a nice, relaxing, quiet environment. DH disagrees and has insisted on having the TV on all day every day.....

.....it's worth nothing here that I hate the TV, I didn't even have one until DH moved in with me. The incessant noise gives me a headache. I like peace and quiet, so I'm pretty biased here. A week in and I already want to throw the thing out of the window!

Anyway, I can't help but think that it's disrespectful to my DD to have the TV blaring in the background while she's trying to doze off, especially since she struggles so much to settle. I can't sleep if there's noise!! DH says that this is the point - I'm a poor sleeper because I was taught to expect absolute silence (my mum hates noise, too) and it's up to us to make sure our DD doesn't have the same affliction. I'm not sure.....

What do you reckon? What did/do you do?