DH and I will be sharing room with baby. He will need an alarm for work and cannot be late. We plan on having a white noise machine in the room, but do you think that's enough?
How did you guys do it?
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My husband set his cell phone alarm on low or vibrate. The baby typically would wake around 5am, nurse, and then be sound asleep when hubby woke up at 6:30 for work. I don't think he ever woke the baby up actually.
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Yes - we just use our cell phones for alarms and never had a problem waking LO. We bed shared, so even closer proximity and no issues.
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We bedshare and my husband uses an alarm and it's almost never been an issue. He uses a sound that's not too abrasive which helps. You could try a vibrating alarm with something else set for a few minutes later as a back up while you're figuring it out too.
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I just used my regular alarm (cell phone, 80% volume). It never woke LO up. She slept through a fire drill, too. She is almost a year and still sleeps through alarm clocks. I think some babies are just programmed to ignore things like that.
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Baby never woke he hahad his cell alarm, even at 19 months if she makes her way to our bed, she still doesn't wake!
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Thanks for all the input everyone!
I think hubby will just choose a soft starting melody and turn it off as he gets up. =)
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@stiletto_mom: we are in the same boat. I'm thinking a low alarm and then follow up with a loud alarm for later when he's awake just in case. I don't remember it being an issue in the past though.
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We bedshare, and the initial alarm does not wake our daughter up. If we hit the snooze, she will usually wake up the second time it goes off.
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This is a huge problem in our house. DH's alarm has always woken E up, even in the next room. The baby can sleep through it (and the hairdryer, the drawer slamming and everything else he does), but E wakes the baby. So we are all up at 6.30.
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I have a fitbit charge HR and set my alarm through that. It vibrates and actually does wake me up.
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No, baby has been our alarm clock for the past year. I'd love to wake up to my 6am alarm again.
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We never needed an alarm clock in the 20 months we've co-slept, lol!
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Obviously it depends on how early your DH needs to be up, but we didn't need an alarm clock for close to 2 years with our LO. Even now, she is often up before us, and our alarm is always set for 6am.
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We only room-shared for 1 month with lo, but we have rarely needed an alarm clock at all (aside from our "baby/toddler alarm clock!") since she was born over 2 years ago, lol.
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My husband had a FitBit that would vibrate as his alarm. Baby and I never even heard it while I was on maternity leave and would sleep blissfully!
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Thanks! Fitbit is a great idea, but an expensive investment just for the vibrating alarm. XD
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