Hi moms I have a 10 month old son who is a VERY light sleeper. His room is upstairs and we have to walk past it to get to our room. And every night when we go by he wakes up. It doesn't matter how quiet we are even if there is no sound at all he still seems to wake up. I have a raido on in his room for added noise but do you have any ideas on how to help him sleep more sound. It is driving me nuts I can't do anything upstairs when he is asleep and the waking up when we go to bed is just not working. It's like he just doesn't want to miss anything because when he wakes I will hold him for about 5 min in my room and then he will go right back to sleep so he doesn't need anything... Do I just let him cry... Any Ideas would be great. Thanks
I've got two young boys, noisy stairs and one is a light sleeper. We use a clock radio with nature sounds in each of their rooms and set it to ocean waves (rain works too for us). I think we got them at Fred Meyer for $20-30 and we enjoy not having to worry about them waking up from any outside noise.
My son was the same way, and at 3 1/2, he is still a very light sleeper. We got a loud are purifier and turned it on high in his bedroom. You can't hear anything over the top of that.
Try white noise of some kind, either a loud fan or a noise machine. It will drown out background noise.
I agree with the other posters. The radio may be adding to your troubles. What you need is white noise. We have two wonderful white noise machines made my Marpac (www.marpac.com), one in our room and one in our son's. They've been a godsend.
Have you tried just rubbing or patting his back or chest back to sleep rather than picking him up? Easier said than done, I know, but it works for some lucky mommas. That way babes realize they don't get picked up every time they wake themselves up. For us a white noise machine has worked wonders, the noisy drone lulls her to sleep like no other and drowns out background noise we make. Having soft music going never seemed to help, she seemed more restless. Good luck!
Well, he obviously wants you. 10 months is pretty young for him to be sleeping alone in his own room. Some kids may be okay with it, but maybe he needs more contact with his mom in order to feel secure enough to go to sleep. It may be time to switch him to your room, he'll eventually want to be a "big boy" & go to his own, but it seems like it's too soon for him. Every kid is different. And please don't use the cry it out method, I get so upset when I continually hear moms asking if this is an okay thing to do to their babies. I don't mean to be offensive here, but if you want to foster insecurity, try letting him cry it out, but I think you just want to sleep & everyone will sleep better if he's in your room.
Does he wake up even when his door is closed? If you're not closing the door I suggest that you try that. You can open it when you're on your way to bed.
I also recommend white noise. It's better at masking sound than a radio. The white noise could be in the hall and it would mask your sounds even better.
I've read that continuous music or voice sounds keep us in a lighter level of sleep. You could try just turning off the radio once he's asleep. You could use a CD player so that it would stop at the end of the CD.
At 10 months your baby is old enough to learn how to self-soothe. I also suggest that you not immediately respond to him. I think the no-cry technique for getting babies to go to sleep might work. It's something like when he cries wait 5 minutes before going in. Over a few days extend the length of time you wait. And it's OK if he fusses. Fussing is one way of self soothing.
Some babies are helped by a toy that is sort of like a fish tank, that hangs on their bed rail. The baby can push a button and the "fish" swim while a light turns on. A different button will play music. The toy shuts itself off.
