White noise for babies… I’m curious what everyone else does 🤍😴

A few questions for you all:

– Do you use white noise for naps, nighttime, or both?
– What type do you use (machine, app, YouTube, etc.)?
– Do you leave it on all night or turn it off once baby is asleep?
– What volume do you keep it at?
– Have you noticed it actually helps your baby settle?
– Do you worry about them becoming dependent on it?
– How long did you use it for?
– When (and how) did you stop using it? 👀
– Did stopping it affect your baby’s sleep at all?

Would love to hear different experiences because I’m still figuring out what works best! 🤍

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We’ve used since birth and now 2yo. Only for nighttime. We use the dream egg, bought on Amazon, use the rain noise. Planning to use for as long as it feels right. We have a big family floorbed and I love the white noise too!

We have been using white noise since she was born. Both for naps and bedtime, leave it on all night. First we used a Spotify song, but we had connection issues etc, so we got a portable white noise machine. It really does filter all other household noises. I dont know if it helps or not, but scared to stop using it 😅
Even if she is dependant, its not a bad habit as such.

Weve used it since like 3 months old? For naps and bedtime. We use a little machine we got off amazon. Its about 5 feet away from baby and its just enough to ensure she wont wake up to us like...flush the toilet or walking up our very loud stairs...or our cat howling lol.

We leave it on all night. She wakes up if it turns off.

Im not concerned about her being dependent on it. I fall asleep to meditation music...who cares what tool you need to sleep?

-I use it for both.
-i use the momcozy sound medicine (womb sounds and red light)
- I leave it on all night
- I have it on the lowest volume setting
- definitely helps as it's ran out of battery a few times and she's woken up.
- not worried about her being dependant on it. Some adults needs white noise to sleep. It does no harm.

We’ve used it more regularly since about 2months only for nap times to avoid being woken up by every day noises, we put it on a timer but when it stops it has been waking him up so we put it as long as possible. We are using Ewan the sheep, loads of nice sounds, but he seems to prefer the rain.

- nighttime mainly but naps if outside is busy / noisy
- left on all night
- built into the baby monitor
- highest built in (it’s not very loud)
- yes definitely, if he could hear a floorboard creak beforehand he’d be up and crying
- nope!
- used it from about 4 months ‘properly’ and still at 16 months now, maybe phase out around 2 years and see what happens but not really in a rush, we all have our crutches and he doesn’t have a comforter etc x

-I use the white noise for bedtime, god knows if it would work for naps she still contact naps on me in the living room 🤣
-machine
-leave on all night, I like the sound so doesn’t bother me and it’s good to be continuous for her if she wakes up in the night
-as loud as a shower is
-I would say it would, she knows if it’s the noise, it’s time for bedtime as we’ve had the same routine since she was about 4-6 weeks old
-nope I have no worries, it says you can use it as long as you want to. May try her without it in the future but I have no concerns right now so no intention to stop any time soon!
-since around 4-6 weeks old
-haven’t stopped, so cannot answer the last 2🙈🤍

We don’t use anything with my lo and she sleeps just fine 😂 x

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My baby is 11 months old and has just started settling-in sessions this week. Some sessions have gone okay—she even managed to nap—but others have been much worse, with her crying for up to an hour.

The last session (4 hours) is what made me feel most uncomfortable about the nursery.

1. The staff seem extremely strict, and the way they speak to parents can feel quite harsh.
2. My baby drinks pumped breast milk. The staff said I could bring breast milk but didn’t clearly explain in what form. Apparently, they only accept it in pouches and not in bottles. When I brought it in a bottle, they spoke to me harshly and said they “don’t know what I’ve put in it,” which felt unfair—it’s the same milk whether it’s in a bottle or pouch. It came across as if they were accusing me of tampering with it.
3. If I forget something or do something wrong (like the milk issue), they overreact and speak in a very telling, almost mean way.
4. They don’t provide regular updates on the family app, so I have to contact them myself to find out how my child is doing. Sometimes they do and sometimes they’re don’t. The communication is not clear and they simply tell me off that it’s written in the policy, I mean they can remind me. The woke with parents on the daily basis and I was expecting them to be more understanding.
5. During the last session, I brought breast milk in a bottle and was told off. I even offered to go home and bring it in a pouch, but they said no. Four hours later, they asked me to pick her up because she couldn’t sleep—and they hadn’t given her any milk because it was in a bottle. They also said she didn’t want to eat the food provided (pizza and oat milk). When I got home, she was clearly starving and drank two bottles of milk. I’m upset that they didn’t offer alternatives like toast or fruit or ask me what she might eat.
6. The staff wear strong perfume, and my child comes home smelling of it, which bothers me.
7. The nursery is nut-free because one staff member has an allergy. I try my best to avoid nuts, but if I accidentally include something, they say they will call me to pick my child up because they cannot care for her. I find this difficult as I am working and paying for childcare?
Is this a regular thing with nurseries? Would it be unreasonable to ask them not to wear perfume when carrying for my child as she has eczema and it’s unpleasant to have her face smelling of perfume? Anyone else had problems like this?

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I gave birth yesterday and had a second degree tear pretty much in a straight line downwards but not too close to my butt hole.
The midwife however had to put her finger up my butt twice when stitching me back together. It was traumatising on top of literally giving birth minutes beforehand 😭 Has anyone else had this happen?? She only explained the second time that she was checking she hadn't stitch into my anus which is OK but I'd rather have been told beforehand, also I don't understand why she'd need to check when she had just explained to me (and the student midwife) that the tear didn't go to the anus. Is this a normal check that they do?

I had a 2nd degree tear with my first baby but I'd had an epidural and was completely out of my face on other medications, mixed with just a terrible birth experience I didn't even take in when the doctor sewed me up, but they never mentioned abing yo put their fingers up there 😬

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