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Infants especially sleep BETTER when there is noise and people around. For an adult noise means something is possibly coming to harm you and your family at nigh
by specialp 4y ago
Infants especially sleep BETTER when there is noise and people around. For an adult noise means something is possibly coming to harm you and your family at night so it awakens you. For an infant, lack of noise means abandonment and the response is to cry as infants are helpless without their parents
- prox 4y agoOh interesting, so having ambient noise helps babies sleep?
- tvelichkov 4y agoI've read somewhere that white noise is similar to what they hear while they are inside their Mom, so this puts them into a familiar environment, which makes them calm.
- t0mas88 4y agoThey make stuffed animals that play white noise or even human heart sounds. Not sure whether there is scientific data on this, but a lot of parents use them.
- specialp 4y agoI had an extremely fussy colicky infant. I never thought that noises would help him sleep. But I noticed he would sleep if I was holding him and talking to someone. One day he was overtired and screaming because he could not sleep, and I turned on the vacuum. He went straight to sleep. It got me thinking about why that would be. Almost all adults would not welcome a vacuum on to fall alseep. We got a white noise generator after and it helped him out.
- throwaway2037 4y agoLike managing a team of diverse thinkers: "Do what works for you(r team)!"