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This is already known data, you simulate the conditions of the womb and a baby in the 4th trimester (we're born early because of our big heads), will sleep easi

by surge 4y ago

This is already known data, you simulate the conditions of the womb and a baby in the 4th trimester (we're born early because of our big heads), will sleep easily. So swaddling, swaying and shhhing all simulate being in the womb where you hear white noise, are tightly confined and gently rocked or swayed by the mother's natural movement as she walks around, etc. I read about it with my own children and it worked, and there was science behind it. https://www.happiestbaby.com/blogs/baby/the-5-s-s-for-soothing-babies?utm_source=google&utm_campaign= https://www.happiestbaby.com/blogs/baby/the-5-s-s-for-soothi...

was_a_dev 4y ago
At the extreme, do you think generating whitenoise from a phone would have the same effect?
- egman_ekki 4y ago
  It's no extreme. It does work and there are also toys that generate white noise to help babies sleep. Also a lot of Spotify playlists dedicated to this.
- lm2s 4y ago
  Not an extreme. Pink noise works really well and brown noise to some extent. White noise is a bit harsh for our human ears. The pink noise besides simulating the shushing also serves as sort of a noise blanket to make other sounds being made around the baby pop up less, sort of sound mantle.
- surge 4y ago
  They sell white noise and whale noise baby products, many parents started using their phones or Echo/Home devices. So yes, anything with a speaker will work, and is likely closer to what you hear in the womb then what one's mouth can simulate. It also still works on adults. I regularly have a fan or white noise going when I sleep.
jaclaz 4y ago
Very tangentially related, an old trick that often works with small (dog) puppies crying at night when separated from their mother is to put them into their basket together with a (warm) hot water bottle and a mechanical alarm clock (those old ones that tick very loud) wrapped in a blanket. In that case it is the combination of (fake) body warmth + (fake) heartbeat that makes them sleep, since we are mammals/animals too, the mechanism for babies is likely similar.

by surge 4y ago

was_a_dev 4y ago

At the extreme, do you think generating whitenoise from a phone would have the same effect?

egman_ekki 4y ago
It's no extreme. It does work and there are also toys that generate white noise to help babies sleep. Also a lot of Spotify playlists dedicated to this.
lm2s 4y ago
Not an extreme. Pink noise works really well and brown noise to some extent. White noise is a bit harsh for our human ears. The pink noise besides simulating the shushing also serves as sort of a noise blanket to make other sounds being made around the baby pop up less, sort of sound mantle.
surge 4y ago
They sell white noise and whale noise baby products, many parents started using their phones or Echo/Home devices. So yes, anything with a speaker will work, and is likely closer to what you hear in the womb then what one's mouth can simulate. It also still works on adults. I regularly have a fan or white noise going when I sleep.

jaclaz 4y ago

Very tangentially related, an old trick that often works with small (dog) puppies crying at night when separated from their mother is to put them into their basket together with a (warm) hot water bottle and a mechanical alarm clock (those old ones that tick very loud) wrapped in a blanket. In that case it is the combination of (fake) body warmth + (fake) heartbeat that makes them sleep, since we are mammals/animals too, the mechanism for babies is likely similar.