![]() If your baby continues to sleep well, then there’s no more need for white noise. If you choose too, you can gradually start decreasing the volume each night. White Noise Won’t Interfere with Long-Term Newborn SleepĪre you afraid that your baby could become addicted to the white noise while you try to give him or her better newborn sleep? Don’t be! White noise is easy to wean off of. Secondly, it helps ensure that the white noise you are using to help him or her fall asleep doesn’t inadvertently cause auditory issues. It keeps your baby from reaching the machine as they get older and more ambulatory. You should always place your white noise machine across the room from your baby. Placing the Machine for Better Newborn Sleep and Safety It actually switches on the calming reflex in your baby’s brain, allowing him or her to fall asleep more easily. FamiliarĬontinuing with the theme of calm familiarity, white noise creates a cocoon-like bubble for your baby to fall asleep in. Calmingīecause white noise drowns out distracting sounds and replaces them with a more familiar sound, it is quite calming to babies. White noise helps drown out those distracting sounds with something familiar. On the other hand, sounds like siblings, traffic, the television, and the like can make the world seem too loud. On the one hand, your baby feels the loss of that comforting rhythm of your body, making the world seem unnaturally quiet. Your baby’s new world is an odd dichotomy of silence and out of control sounds. While falling asleep in a room that doesn’t have mom and dad in it, the white noise offers a comforting familiarity that allows baby to relax and fall asleep more easily. White noise helps babies sleep longer by helping them feel more secure. While mimicking the sound of their 9-month stay in mommy’s womb, white noise offers comfort for a few different reasons. They have been living in your womb for 9 months hearing the loud swooshing of your heartbeat, organs working, the rumbles of your belly the vibration of your voice and the chatter outside! Next time you are taking a bath, turn the faucet on full blast and put your head under the water- that is very similar to what your baby has been hearing her entire life! When babies are born, their world becomes uncomfortably quiet, which is why white noise is so beneficial! 4 Benefits of White Noiseīabies should be sleeping with continuous white noise until they are at the very least, two years old. Improve Newborn Sleep with White Noiseīabies LOVE white noise. One of the best ways to improve newborn sleep is white noise. That means that as our baby grows, we can always improve their sleep patterns, dialing in exactly what we need to in order to create a successful sleep schedule. Remember what we always say here: sleep is a learned behavior. Newborn sleep can always be improved in the first few weeks. ![]()
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