After four children I have become familiar lets say with what noises wake a baby and those that they seem to sleep through quite happily.
Noises they can sleep through include:
- The vacuum cleaner – even when it is right next to them
- The tumble dryer
- My very powerful and noisy hairdryer
- MTV on loud
- Cars outside
- The lawnmower
- A noisy road
- A train passing
- The noise in the doctor’s surgery
- A running bath
- Me thundering around the house doing jobs
- A violent storm
- Lights being switched on
- The extractor fan and other cooking noises
- Putting out the recycling
- Changing their nappy
- Another child waking up- but only in the morning when you are tight on time
Noises that always wake them up:
- A crisp packet opening
- The sound of me getting into bed, the bath or the shower
- The sound of me sitting down to eat
- A text message
- A sneeze
- A cough
- A floor board
- The keys on my laptop
- The lid of the toilet seat
- Another child waking up – enter ‘the domino effect’ but only at night time
- The retraction of the stair gate
- Dropping something in the bathroom sink
- The phone ringing
What noises can your children sleep through and what noises are guaranteed to wake them up?
14 comments
after four kids here too I totally agree with you on all of these!! #twinklytuesday
Lol – thanks Chantelle.
Oh this is spot on!!! Although my eldest will wake up (most of the time) the same time in morning as my youngest! x
Thanks for reading Beth x
This is so true! My younger son is three and a half and can still be woken by the sound of someone breathing. Dreading what his little sister is going to be like if he is anything to go by!
It’s a nightmare isn’t it. I woke our youngest last night when I bent down and my knees cracked!
Oh I completely agree with this! When Zach was a baby he would happily sleep through the X Factor intro and yet if II closed a door or drawer he was awake. Infuriating! Thanks for linking up with #TwinklyTuesday
Really infuriating isn’t it – thanks for reading 🙂
My daughter will sleep through anything…until I climb into bed!
Haha yes that’s about right!
It’s almost as though she senses the sheets moving.
Great post #TwinklyTuesday
I joke that my children have a radar on me!
When I became a dad, a friend of mine who already had a kid said “let your child hear every single domestic noise from day one”. This is what my wife and I did, and both our kids have been fine with noise, all noises. What wakes them up is light. Our eldest was particularly light sensitive and we had to construct a bizarre tent in dark linen and put her to bed at night in that when she was a new born or else she wouldn’t settle. #twinklytuesday
That is really good advice – couldn’t agree more. Light can be a nightmare, we used to have a problem with that but not so much now.