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How to get a quiet room!

I don’t know about you but, when my kids would nap I wanted their room to be quiet!!   The worst was when I would have them almost asleep and someone would knock on the door or call for me.  I just wanted to scream SHHHH!!   They would always wake up from the phone ringing, a lawn mower or someone ringing the doorbell!! There is nothing worse then waking a sleeping child or having them almost asleep and wake up!!  I have come up with some things I do to help eliminate outside noise and recently discovered an even better idea!! Keeping out the  outside noise rather then trying to cover it!

My noise covering techniques have been to create a constant white noise.  I have used soothing music, a humidifier and a fan.  All have been pretty helpful in stopping my kids from waking up.

I just read an article on Sound Proofing a room and wish I had discovered it when my kids were little!!  It’s about sound proofing a room, not just covering the noise.  According to the article there are special window treatments and door coverings that keep noise out!!   These sound proofing techniques discussed in the article are 95% effective-so they cut out 95% of the noise!  How great that would have been!!  I would have been in heaven if I could have shut the door and not worried that a phone ringing was going to wake my son or daughter.  Another benefit of these Window Treatments or seals is that it helps keep out allergens!   Not a bad thing for all of us with  allergies!!

It used to take me quite a while to get them to sleep!!  Both my kids would wake as soon as I put them down if they weren’t in a deep sleep.  I tried multiple methods to get them to go to sleep on their own too.   Eventually as they got older they got better at transferring into their crib, but if there was the slightest noise their eyes would pop open and I would have to start all over again!!

How do you get your child to sleep?  Do you have any sound proofing or noise covering solutions you use or used?