Parents have always wanted their baby to have a good long sleep for their physical and mental development. This will also allow the parents to rest after hours of watching over their baby.
As Baby Sleep Site suggested, babies get to sleep better and longer if there is a presence of white noise. Babies are used to this kind of noise because the mother's womb is actually full of sound like heartbeat, blood flow, mumbling and movements.
This is very similar to the white noise that you hear when your TV screen turns static. The white noise makes the baby feel secure, making them sleep longer.
Even in adults, they also find some white noise relaxing that makes them fall asleep. One example is the humming sound of the air conditioner, low radio music or even leaving the TV on make them fall asleep.
This is just the same as how baby feels when they hear white noise. Here are the benefits that parents and babies can get in using white noise to promote sleep.
- It is the easiest way to calm down your baby and the most inexpensive sleep aid to make them sleep longer.
- White noise is a stress-reducer for babies. Babies are experiencing so much when they are awake like they see to many lights, faces, and things that catches their attention. There is too much stimulation happening and applying white noise in their surrounding blocks that stimulation making them relax and ready to sleep
- Makes the babies cry less because they feel comfort whenever they hear white noise. The common thing that parents do when the babies cry is shushing them. If you are a parent and experienced this, you might have noticed a positive effect. You baby will stop crying when you shush them. Shushing sound is similarly a white noise.
According to Dr. Harvey Karp, author of "The Happiest Baby on the Block," he suggested, "you keep your shushing or white noise as loud as baby's cry, which can be quite a bit louder than 50 dB." This sound level of white noise would be enough to block out other sounds that can disturb the baby's sleep.
