Our 15 month old loves her white noise and is so cued into it that when she hears it she automatically finds her binky and lays her head down. It has been so wonderful for us that I have no desire to necessarily phase it out... but I was wondering:
When did you phase out white noise?
How did you do it?
admin / wonderful grape / 20724 posts
Charlie started turning the white noise off on his own earlier this year... now he almost never lets me turn it on! He's 3 1/2 now, so maybe this was shortly after he turned three.
He also hates the sound of the bathroom fan, so I think maybe he just has sensitive ears?
pineapple / 12802 posts
Um. Our kids our 6 & 9 and we still use white noise...
I'm so scared to phase out.
Partly because they are so loud when I want to sleep.
wonderful grape / 20453 posts
I've started using white noise at night and I think I'm going to end up getting her dependent on it. I feel like I need *something* to tell her it's bedtime, though. And the white noise helps drown out DH and I when we are talking in bed (she sleeps in the RnP next to us).
Glad to see it's common to use it for at least a year, though!
Honestly...it knocks me out, too.
blogger / pineapple / 12381 posts
@.twist.: LOL, I guess I am in no hurry then.
@Mr. Bee: Sounds like my 3 year old. We have to warn her when we're turning on the coffee grinder or the blender. She never liked white noise, though.
pineapple / 12802 posts
@Mrs. Jacks: haha, I say it jokingly, but it's partly true. Our one son has some major sleeping issues and he is wide awake long after everyone else. He usually reads, but sometimes I can hear him talking to himself and the white noise is so he doesn't wake up his brother, or us. I've thought about phasing it out, but I honestly have no idea how.
pear / 1812 posts
I still need white noise myself. Granted mine comes in the form of a fan but still, can't sleep without it. We may never phase it out for LO but I also don't plan on using a machine. Maybe a fan or something she can use or not use when she wants easier than a machine. That is, if she even wants the white noise.
honeydew / 7488 posts
DD is almost 5 and still turns her fan on every night. I don't plan to phase it out unless she wants to.. it really helps to block out the ambient noise like tv!
wonderful cherry / 21504 posts
I still use a fan almost every night for the white noise! I'm considering getting a white noise machine for our room for the winter, since it would use less energy than running a fan faced away from us.
I live in the city so there is just a lot of noise around, so I would use it for LO for as long as we can. And since you can download a free iphone app with white noise easily, I wouldn't worry about the what if we are away from home or whatever.
pear / 1723 posts
Ours are 11 mo and both still use dohms. I think as long as they go to bed before us, we'll use them to block out DH and I's evening puttering, and if one wakes up and squaks it helps prevent the other waking. Our house is really open, so we'll probably use them indefinitely.
DS has an ipod of water sound in addition to his dohm, and I think we'll phase that out once they are in a groove of sttn more soundly, but aren't in a hurry. Planning to just slowly reduce the volume over the course of a few weeks.
blogger / watermelon / 14218 posts
Still using it every night at 3.5 years old! (and 11 months old.)
That being said, when we are not at home (at hotels and peoples' houses) they both sleep through the night just fine without it!!
pomegranate / 3388 posts
We're at 14 months and still going strong with the sleep sheep. DD often turns it back *on* in the morning when she wakes up, and then she'll lie quietly in bed listening to it for quite a while. I heart white noise 
blogger / pineapple / 12381 posts
@mrs. wagon: We even bring it on trips! It's really an amazing thing for our little girl.
@skibobrown: I heart it too!
pomelo / 5178 posts
DD weaned herself of the white noise, right around 2 years old. We started by just turning it down a little, and then she started asking to put it on bird sounds instead of static (we use an old smartphone with a sleep app). Eventually, she stopped asking to turn it on at all, and we took it out of her room!
honeydew / 7667 posts
@Mrs. Jacks: I love it. I can use it on an airplane or in a hotel and be asleep instantly. Best thing ever!
honeydew / 7687 posts
My inlaws were really freaked out about LO getting "addicted" to white noise... not sure why! If DH didn't hate it, I'd sleep with white noise every night. So I probably won't ever phase out LO's unless he asks!
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