How do I stop alarm from waking baby early?
Nikki asked:
My husband’s alarm for work goes off at 5.30am. This wakes up our 4month old DS even though he’s in his own room (our house is tiny). On days when there is no alarm he sleeps til around 6.30am so i know this is the cause for the early wakings. If hubby lowers the alarm volume then he won’t wake up. How can we solve this please?
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My husband’s alarm for work goes off at 5.30am. This wakes up our 4month old DS even though he’s in his own room (our house is tiny). On days when there is no alarm he sleeps til around 6.30am so i know this is the cause for the early wakings. If hubby lowers the alarm volume then he won’t wake up. How can we solve this please?
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May 29th, 2010 at 5:32 am
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Maybe put a fan next to your son’s crib? It might block out some of the noise. It works for me. My son’s bedroom is right next to ours.
May 30th, 2010 at 11:36 am
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Headphones for your husband lol. Set it for 15 mins earlier and make sure you get it right away, then if baby wakes up stay in bed for 15 mins until baby falls back to sleep, THEN go and get ready for work..Hope this helps
June 2nd, 2010 at 12:38 am
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Vibrating alarm maybe?
I don’t know that particular one is any good. It was just the first one I found… but you get the idea. They also make watches like that. =D
June 2nd, 2010 at 12:43 pm
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We use a white noise machine in my daughters room at Grandma’s house to block out other noises. It was only about $30 at Target.
June 6th, 2010 at 12:03 am
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My dad had a pillow speaker for his alarm so that it wouldn’t wake my mom up, and so he could listen to relaxing music when he was falling asleep. The person sleeping on the pillow hears the music or alarm without a problem. The person sleeping next to them usually doesn’t hear it, so I don’t think it would wake up a baby.
However… consider that it may not be the alarm but your husband getting ready to go in the morning that wakes up your little one. A sound machine like others have suggested may work, but honestly my daughter would listen for us to open doors and make any sounds and would wake up and want to see what was going on, then would go back to sleep, even after she was a year old. Now she grumbles and goes back to sleep, knowing it’s nothing. But her sound machine, a thicker door, oiling the doors, having my hubby go through the garage… nothing worked. She could hear the movement and would wake up.
June 8th, 2010 at 12:48 pm
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Set his alarm on his mobile phone and set it to vibrate mode, stick it under his pillow and the vibratitions will wake him not the baby
June 8th, 2010 at 6:27 pm
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I kicked my husband out of the room in to the guest room. I am sorry but I refuse to have my son in a separate room.
It would have been okay if he let the alarm just go off once because often times my son slept through it.
But my husband likes to hit the snooze button several times before he gets out of bed.
It woke me up, woke my son up… Then since we were up there was no point in trying to fall back asleep. It was just very annoying. Had my husband been willing to just have it go off one time it would have been fine though.
If you got one that was a bit more quiet or vibrated you’d have to make sure it would be able to wake him. Because that would NEVER wake my husband up. He needs a good and loud one.
But if he is one who can be woken easily with a vibrating one or one that has a quiet alert then try that.
Really if it is something that always wakes the baby there is nothing you can do to or for your baby that will get them to sleep through the alarm.
You have to find another alarm that does not wake the baby but can still wake your husband.
Is there any sound proofing you can do to your room to keep baby from hearing it in their room?
Maybe have him sleep with an alarm under his pillow so it’s muffled?
June 9th, 2010 at 2:24 pm
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Use
1) the alarm on your handphone – set to vibrating mode
2) a natural light alarm clock – this alarm clock/lamp wakes you naturally with light that mimics sunrise by going from dim to bright.
pls see :
PS: probably less stressful for you too since u don’t have to hear the alarm going off….