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do you know what? my sister-in-law wore ear plugs when her babies were tiny. she still does now they’re 3 and 6. i’m not kidding. she said she can’t sleep without them. she also weighed down the baby’s blankets so they wouldn’t kick them off in the night. i repeat, i’m not kidding…
i’ve never heard of weighed down blankets. did she put tiny weights in them like queen puts on the bottoms of her skirts so they don’t fly up? why did she just put them in a sleep sack?
seriously though, with my daughter i was told to take sleeping pills so i could “sleep through”.
Jeez, that seems so dangerous. No wonder people sleep through smoke alarms. Once when my daughter was about one and we were all upstairs sleeping together, around 3am, someone sneaked into our house. I don’t remember hearing anything, but as automatically as I lift my shirt in my sleep to nurse, I was out of bed and racing down the stairs ready to fight. I got halfway down the stairs before coming to my senses and stopped to assess the situation. It was someone I knew who had a drug problem and I was able to send them away with no problem. Got deadbolts the next day. But the point is, since becoming a mother, I no longer sleep soundly through anything and its not just about responding to cries. But cries are part of it. Some may call night time parenting being a pushover, but for me its more about being in control, to some degree.
Well… I wear earplugs to sleep, but it’s because my husband snores so loudly. But the baby is sleeping right next to me, and if he cries, I still hear it. Usually it’s more “stirring” than crying, which means it’s time to move the baby, roll over and give him the other breast.
(Snoring doesn’t bother the baby, I figure it’s because he’s been listening to it since he was in the womb.)
When our daughter was born my husband said he’d need to get a set of earplugs because he “couldn’t stand to hear babies crying”! I appropriately shamed him away from the idea
But to his surprise, he found himself saying, “wow, she never cries unless she’s hungry or needs something!” Uh-huh, that’s when all babies cry! Now he is papa-on-the-spot for a crying babe, and I’m learning to sleep through it, finally (pregnant again and needing all the rest I can beg, borrow or steal).
I’ve used earplugs, but usually only for a long car ride. It’s not to block out my kids (and I haven’t used any earplugs that really block out sound all that well) but to mute the overall noise level. I can still hear everything, but it doesn’t make me crazy when the 4 y.o. is singing as loud as he can while the 1 y.o. yells. But then, I have extremely sensitive hearing…
I also have a weighted blanket (professionally made) for my daughter, but it’s for sensory issues, not to prevent kicking off…that’s just weirdness!
I take it you’ve heard of Kitty Raymond? This reminds me of her crap. So sad
Bless her heart, my mother often puts in ear plugs when we visit – LOL! I told her today that the kids will grow up and chuckle about how we visited when they were young and Grandma put in ear plugs.
She plugs her ears often when we’re in an enclosed space (i.e. car) or one that echos, also. Because her ear plugs are at home…
She’s a bit sensitive to auditory stimulation.
Interestingly I had an brief experience with it when sitting in a classroom of 9-year-olds recently during recess. This anxiety rose for a few moments and I realized it was just the energy of the children and their heightened activity. I did some breathing to filter it and the sensation of overload disappeared… More people can benefit from such tools
my sister in law weighed the baby blankets down with dumbells (No I’m still not kidding) – after the baby was tightly wrapped in a blanket so it couldn’t move its arms….. with blackout curtains on the windows.
we don’t have very much in common…..
I have to use earplugs now, but when my kids were babies I didn’t. Of course we co-slept (still do with the youngest) and it was the stirring more than anything that would let me know they needed to nurse.
At this point, with my husband’s hours where he goes to bed about 5 hours after I do, if I didn’t wear the earplugs I’d only be getting about 4 hours of deep sleep a night through being roused constantly. Even with earplugs I wake up a lot.
But wearing earplugs to block out a crying baby is something I’ve never done and never will.
the thought is making my brain explode!
@ Mum-raa, your SIL scares me. That sounds like a recipe for disaster!!!!! Your poor nieces or nephews!
Silly mommies. You don’t need earplugs. You just turn the baby monitor off when you go to bed. I mean if the baby aspirates something from the propped bottle they’ll be just as dead at 7am as they were at 1am but you won’t have had your beauty rest.
Earplugs are good in the hospital. I have a very medical baby so it drowns out the hospital noises and alarms. But I still can feel him stirring next to me:)
I wore earplugs. When my crankypants infant would NOT settle, it was the only way to preserve my hearing while I bounced him on a birthing ball with the vacuum running. They really *did* help me be more responsive, because I would have lost it otherwise.
Earplugs with the baby in another room? Yeah, that’s a parenting fail.
No earplugs but a lady I know sat outside at baby’s bedtime, even when it was cold out because they couldn’t stand to hear baby crying.
She thought *I* was the crazy one, because I nursed mine to sleep. She called it a bad habit. At least I wasn’t in the habit of sitting outside in my coat freezing every night.
I appreciate the post. This was extremely refreshing.