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JessDub 
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Posted: 24 May 2011 at 7:48am |
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How noise resilient are new babies or is it up to their personality?
While (unborn) DS2 is already aware of the noise and chaos in this house, I worry that when baby arrives, he'll be woken up by DS1 who is going through a yelling/squealing phase and is just a noisy lad. I'd love a quiet house but that's going to be hard.
How did your subsequent babies get on in a noisy/busy household?
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Posted: 24 May 2011 at 8:41am |
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We used white noise to drown out Daniel. We have just slowly turned it down
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Posted: 24 May 2011 at 9:20am |
I was really worried about this, I was debating whether or not to have DD in her bassinet in the lounge with us during the day or down in her room away from the noise of DS. We decided to go with keeping her in the lounge with us, it's easier and I didn't want her to be alone for so much of the day while she slept.
Honestly - it has been the best thing, DS is incredibly loud and is currently getting all four molars through so there are a LOT of tears, tantrums and mayhem on top of an already noisy personality. DD doesn't even notice, he screams right next to her and she doesn't even stir. In fact, she sleeps better in the lounge during the day with all the noise than she does in our room in the quiet at night. Still working on that one 
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Posted: 24 May 2011 at 9:27am |
I'm looking forward to having a toddler to give the baby some practise sleeping through background noise! I know from growing up with younger brothers and sisters that they just seemed to sleep through it - I guess if it's a constant, you'd just learn. Jacob, on the other hand, is used to pretty much dead quiet - usually he's just at home with me, and I don't make much noise! - and so whenever I try to get him to sleep anywhere else, any slight sound wakes him. I figure no 2 will at least have some practise at home 
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Posted: 24 May 2011 at 9:29am |
My lil boy sleeps thru his sister tantruming right next to him lol. The only thing that wakes him up is his stomache 
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Posted: 24 May 2011 at 12:46pm |
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I had the opposite experience to you guys. We had the baby's room right next to our living room, but he was such a bugger to settle to sleep and would wake at the first sound. In the end i moved him down the hall and we were all happier after that. It just drove me too nuts trying to get him to sleep and getting cross with DS1 for waking him up.
Prob depends on personality, cruisy baby would be ok, spirited personality not at all ok! FX for the former for you.
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Posted: 24 May 2011 at 12:48pm |
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Pleased to read all this as I was worried about it too. Am more worried about DD being woken by the baby tho. From what I gather tho most toddlers don't notice the baby waking at night after a week or so?
What's been people's experiance?
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Posted: 24 May 2011 at 12:53pm |
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When my DS2 was little he would sleep in the dining room in his moses basket no problem. From about 8 weeks though he needed quiet to get to sleep/no distractions but I couldn't get him to sleep lying down coz of reflux so he had to sleep in a swing amongst the noise. He goes to sleep at night with a backdrop of the neighbourhood kids playing football RIGHT OUTSIDE his bedroom window. Drives me nuts, but he seems fine.
DS1 has never woken at night when DS2 did/does but in saying that he has always been a great sleeper and rarely needs us in the night anyway. When we were home in Chch a couple of months ago we were all sleeping in the same room and DS1 did wake/stay up when DS2 was up while we were there. We were all over tired and the kids were so out of their usual routine that I wasn't really surprised though.
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Posted: 24 May 2011 at 2:10pm |
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Yeah we were a bit worrired about DS waking with DD crying at night but so far so good. We have DD in with us in her bassinet and DS sleeps directly across the hall. Both bedroom doors are shut over and we're using the monitor again to make sure we can hear DS. He hasn't woken so far and he's a pretty light sleeper being the first and not having much noise around up until now.
DD also screams like a banshee during her bath in the evenings and even that doesn't wake DS.
*touches wood*
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Posted: 24 May 2011 at 4:38pm |
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My DD has never been the best sleeper anyway, and only started regularly sleeping thru about a month before DS was born. She still wakes in the night a couple of times a week but it's not the baby waking her as so far she has only gotten up when he's busy feeding (so not making any noise) or sleeping. So hopefully that won't be an issue either!
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Posted: 24 May 2011 at 6:19pm |
I am in this situ too. I found that the first few weeks were fine as DS2 was still in that really sleepy newborn phase but now he is a bit older I find that he is more easily woken by my toddler if he is in the lighter phase of sleep or just trying to go to sleep. Bothers me a bit but then I have to tell myself that it isn't my DS1's fault and he is just being a toddler and DS2 will just have to get used to it!
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Posted: 24 May 2011 at 8:52pm |
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Have also been wondering about this, bub will have a five year old half-sister, and I was concerned not so much about sleeping as they will only see eachother every other weekend, but in the car.
His dad will no doubt want to take him to meet/see family who live two hours out of town, and she is a very noisy girl, screaming and yelling (just in general, not specifically if she is grumpy), she has her arms and legs going everywhere, and screams bloody murder if she drops a Barbie shoe on the floor and can't pick it up.
Not sure his poor wee ears will handle the trip, and worried about her being a bit rough with him if she's in a grump (hitting etc).
Surely she's old enough to know better?
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Posted: 29 May 2011 at 8:29pm |
its chaos in this house. especially at night. One cries and the other starts! sorry no magic tips from me, maybe grin and bear it. Im gonna chuck mine int he same room and they can scream at each other 
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Posted: 30 May 2011 at 1:35pm |
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Yea, I was talking about this to a friend who said forget the little one learning to sleep through noise - you just have to get used to it waking up all the time. *sigh*. Hopefully they're all different, I'm still holding out some hope!
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Posted: 30 May 2011 at 2:18pm |
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Im sure they are all different. A friend of mines little one, now 17 months sleeps through anything - even fell asleep at my girls very noisy third birthday!! and her sister is rather excitable so definately different, alas I wasnt blessed with one of those - but there is hope!!
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Posted: 30 May 2011 at 3:48pm |
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I haven't had too many probs with toddler waking baby up, she seems to sleep through a lot of noise!
And the other way around... our baby is teething at the moment and is waking up screaming at night and isn't waking our toddler up at all - which is great! She just seems to sleep through it.
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Posted: 30 May 2011 at 7:18pm |
Oh Hopes, don't say that!
Although, that's what I'm budgeting on too really. I've bought a really good baby monitor so that I can shut a couple of doors between DD and the baby and keep an eye on whichever one I'm not with. That might help a little bit?!
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Posted: 30 May 2011 at 9:09pm |
T-Rex, the monitors are great lol
Baby hasn't really been woken by toddler in this house...although I can't say the reverse is true unfortunately 'tis all a balancing act and you'll quickly sort out a rhythm to your days... the real secret is discovering how to make them both sleep AT THE SAME TIME. If you can do that and bottle the recipe you'll make a fortune 
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Posted: 31 May 2011 at 10:48am |
You guys will all be fine!!
And from everyone I have talked to, the 2nd baby seems to be pretty easy-going and fits in quite well.
The baby will sleep at times during the day and the toddler will probably still be having two sleeps a day too, so every now and then, they may overlap even!!
2 close together is great, just take it one day at a time and it is amazing what you can cope with
And plus, by the time the baby comes along, it is just amazing that you can put it in one place and it stays there for longer than two seconds, and it has something to watch too. Fantastic!!
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Posted: 31 May 2011 at 10:31pm |
 kebakat wrote:
We used white noise to drown out Daniel. We have just slowly turned it down |
We used white noise too, to drown out a very noisy 10 year old older brother, the noise that comes from DH working at home, and the sounds of a garage being built outside the nursery window. DS is still building teh garage and still working from home, so we're only just now getting the white noise down really low, about time DS is 8 1/2 months!
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