Teeny Rant

[Mrs. KM]

I am visiting my parents for a couple weeks so have been seeing a lot of friends and family. My parents keep joking that they have to be quiet when K is napping, but when they say this other people keep telling me to be loud and she will learn how to sleep through the noise. I think I know my baby. She was so difficult to get in the habit of sleeping in her crib for naps and is a light sleeper. Why would I risk making a whole bunch of noise and waking her. I wasn't thinking once and blew my nose while she was napping... Paid for it lol. Anyway, just fed up with people telling me what to do with my child. Thankfully my parents know K well enough too to know she is a light sleeper.

 

[MrsGC]

Aww Hun, I was like you. If someone said anything I'd think they were trying to tell me what to do but realised eventually that their just trying to give advice. I had that one about noise and babies will get used to it. And it's kind of true. I guess sometimes people say things in the wrong way and we take it the wrong way (we can blame hormones) but I do it myself now. I give advice but I bet others think I'm telling them what to do lol

Just ignore it hun and do what you feels right for your little one. As you said you'll be the one suffering not them x

 

[Mrs. KM]

I'm not taking their advice the wrong way, I appreciate advice. It is just that they all argue with me after I say K is a light sleeper and won't sleep through noise. If she wouod sleep through some noise, I would obviously not mind making more noise to get her used to it. The smallest noises wake her up and she freaks out so it is just not worth it. maybe when she is older she will, but certainly not right now. Xx

 

[Nic36]

It bugs me too when people tell me what I should be doing with my baby - especially when the advice they give is completely wrong. Last weekend an older person (who incidentally has never had children of their own) was telling me I shouldn't be talking properly to my baby, but I should be speaking in the baby's language, i.e. Goo, gaaa, etc. as that is how they learn. I've done my research and I know how important it is for my LO to hear proper language from day 1, so I just ignored them and carried on doin what I was doing. Annoying though.
Like you, I also have to have it quiet in order for Emily to sleep, and. Even then she doesn't sleep great! It might be better for text book babies to learn to sleep anywhere and in noisy places, but when you have a baby who hardly sleeps, you are desperate to create the optimum conditions for it to sleep!

 

[Jaxx01]

When Alfie was a baby he'd sleep through a bomb going off but with my Stanley, you only have to walk past his bedroom door and he's bloody awake its a nightmare but I completely understand where you're coming from. I find it hard because obviously my 4 year old doesn't know the meaning of quiet lol xx

 

[pinkyprincess]

I'd ignore people and do it your way. Tyler doesn't sleep much but when he's really down its hard to wake him. The first 40 mins are vital to this lol!

 

[BevG]

me and my mum always put on music while alyssa is asleep, like heart fm, so that she cant hear the little sudden noises that usually wake her. the constant drone of the radio dosent disturb her as its always there but it makes it so she dosent hear other noises like sneezes and so dosent wake up because of them. if the music woke her id damn well not put it on and of course you know your baby best. ppl are just bossy and nosey where its not wanted.

 

[BabyBrain]

Albert will sleep through most loud noises, car horns, fireworks, thunder etc, but drop his dummy on the rug and he jumps about 3 foot in the air lol. All babies are different and if they need quiet to sleep then so be it. I like it completely quiet and yet OH likes background noise of the tv or radio. You know what's best for your baby....it's always the people who don't have to deal with the aftermath of an over tired scream machine that say those things hun xxxxxxxx