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This extremely popular sleep aid does appear to help with baby sleep. But when used incorrectly, it can lead to long-term and even permanent hearing loss.
White noise for babies work for many to help them fall asleep faster and reduce night waking. It's a useful tool and I do recommend it. However, both the volume and duration of exposure need to be considered to ensure your little one's ears aren't accidentally damaged while using white noise.
Because of how long their ears are exposed to white noise, it doesn't have to be what we would often consider loud in order to be harmful to their hearing.
In this video, you'll learn how to use white noise safely and how to test to see if you have your white noise machine set up in a way that's optimal for your baby.
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Article Links:
📖 American Academy of Pediatrics. (2023). American Academy of Pediatrics Sounds the Alarm on Excessive Noise and Risks to Children’s Hearing in Updated Policy Statement.
📖 Graven SN. Sound and the developing infant in the NICU: conclusions and recommendations for care. J Perinatol. 2000 Dec; 20 (8 Pt 2): S88-93.
📖 Hugh SC, Wolter NE, Propst EJ, Gordon KA, Cushing SL, Papsin BC. Infant sleep machines and hazardous sound pressure levels. Pediatrics. 2014 Apr; 133(4): 677-81.
📖 Spencer JA, Moran DJ, Lee A, Talbert D. White noise and sleep induction. Arch Dis Child. 1990 Jan;65(1):135-7.
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Ironic that 50-60 decibels is loud to a baby, yet the baby is the loudest thing in the house 😂 what are the decibels of a baby crying?
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It can be as loud as 120 decibels or as loud as a siren. I just looked it up on Google because you made me curious
@@darksylveon6244 good Lord!! Thanks for clearing that up 😂 babies are going to give themselves hearing damage!
@@AmyMcLean when I saw that that was the first thing I thought as well
This is interesting but the actual reason I turned up my white noise machine volume was because in one of your vids you said you could turn it up quite loud or something like that. Checking the volume on mine tomorrow!!
I do definitely appreciate the tips. Will be using those along with the app you recommended.
Why would sound machines made for babies even go that high?
No idea! But always a good idea to make sure they aren’t that high if you’re using them.
I love your channel - what an amazing resource! Thank you so much. I am a first time mum of a 10 week old. She has already hit her 3 month old milestones and I love checking in here to make sure we can progress properly together. She loves the toys you suggested and I’m now very lucky that she sleeps through the night. A steep leaning curve made easier with your guidance 😊
Thank you so much! Important information to have to prevent hearing loss.
Keep white noise machines under 60 decibels and off when not needed.
No worries at all!
I've been usng the white noise machine for a couple of weeks now and thanks to you i've realized that it's much too loud! Hopefully no damage is done et... thanks anyway!
eeeeeep!! our little one has a fan on in the room 24/7 and the white noise machine too- however it is so quiet it hardly makes a difference when its on and nothing else, let alone when the fan overpowers it. Its the tommee tippee pink noise machine with the red light (so we can see her in the middle of the night). But it sits on the floor right under her cot!
The reason why we have the fan on constantly is because we live in 100+ year old double brick house on a busy noisy road in Sydney, with no air con and the blasting westerly sun every evening in summer. Her room is always hot and stuffy, despite the temperature dropping when theres a cool change outside. It takes a few days for the whole house to properly cool down if there is a cold front for long enough. When I open the front windows to generate a cross breeze, it brings in all the car fumes... so damned if we do, damned if we don't... Plus, her small room is off the main walkway through our living spaces, and is our thoroughfare to the rest of the house... We have also put cardboard on the windows to block the heavy sunlight (this worked like a charm for her) so she can nap easier during the day. On a daily basis, it usually sits at 26/27*C but if the weather is hot outside, it easily reaches 29*C+ and stays that way (even when the back end of the house is cool). We keep the fan on the promote air circulation through the room while the door is closed to reduce noise and light. I know the fan is also a white noise, but although she's used to the sounds of traffic and beeps, I was really hoping that she wouldnt become conditioned to the fan/white noise by the time winter rolls around and the fan wont need to be on. I figured we may have a couple of restless weeks but it would eventually resolve itself. We do use her nursery unless shes about to go to sleep/read a story/calm space or change of clothes/nappy quickly, so she isnt constantly exposed to the noise. She is also in long daycare 5 days a week so she'd be subject to many many different sounds and noises throughout the day.
She is nearly 6mo and when she was a newborn, the noises and beeps from the cars kept her up all day long when she slept in the front room with us (its much quieter at night) so I had my phone blaring white noise a lot of the time at a very high volume, very close to her little ears :( I did not know this could potentially lead to hearing damage. I am now very concerned. When she wakes up I will go in a check the decibels to make sure its soft enough and change whatever I need to for her. On the bright side, her hearing seems to be very good, so I just pray that I havent done any permanent damage to her :(
Thank you for uploading this. I would never have known otherwise. I really enjoy your content, and I recommend your videos and information to my partner a lot. I (and my partner) really appreciate your evidence based videos, your simplistic but effective parenting methods, your logical practices for baby and child development, even your non-clickbaity thumbnails and information are a draw card, and lets not forget the fact that you're an aussie so I can relate to that alone. I have made several meaningful changes to how I navigate and understand being a first time mum. Thank you Emma :) You've been a godsend to me and my little family!
Thank you for this!! Will change our placement now!
Thank you 💕 very much for all the work you do, so we as first time parents dont need to decipher which info is which. You have helped me so much and i am truly grateful, your channel is the best thing for this journey
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So my baby has always white noise on + lullaby for 2 hours when going to sleep. White noise is on for the entire night and now I’m worried that it might be too loud for her & can’t wait to measure the sound. We live in a loud environment so that always has worked for us I just hope I didn’t do something wrong with this..
And yes , we always turn that off the minute she wakes up, I just want her to have some quality sleep that’s all
Don't stress at all. Just test it when she wakes and adjust the volume if needed and/or place it further away from the crib/sleep space.
They are a sound buffer. Commonly used by therapists in offices to give privacy to their patients. We put ours by our baby's window since there is a ton of street noise. Usually you see them by doors, but for us not a ton of noise coming from the hall.
Thanks for sharing!
What brands of white noise machines do you recommend?
This is such a great video, thank you so much for spreading awareness.
You are so welcome!
Should taking babies/toddlers to sporting events be abstained from in order to protect their hearing? Thank you.
Would it be ok to keep the sound machine in the cot as long as you check that it’s not higher than 60dcb in the babies ears? Thanks so much
Hey Emma, first of all, how is mamma (you)? Second I was looking in your backlog for a topic and couldn't find it. Could you consider adding transitioning from crib to toddler bed to your video schedule? Thanks
Please make a video on how to entertain a newborn. 2 weeks, 3 weeks, 4 weeks, 5 weeks, 6 weeks.
I have anxiety (before, worse during, and after pregnancy), and I think your titles are fine, Emma! Thank you for amazing, science backed, and free content!
Thanks so much! ❤
I have a 9 month old and we sleep together. He sleeps around 7pm. and that's when i turn on the white noise machine. He sleeps very well when I'm lying there with him, so I turn the white noise off once I go to bed, usually a couple of hours later. My question is about melatonin and growth hormone. As far as I know, the body needs dark and quiet for melatonin to be released, and having used the white noise machine I have always felt a little guilty about this. I wish you could inform me about this. Am I right to worry or is this not a big issue at all? Thank you very much for this video.
My kid's hatch machine was always on the lowest levels for light and sound, otherwise it was too bright/loud for me as an adult, I can't imagine having it louder for my kid.
Thanks for sharing!
What percentage do you keep the hatch at?
Great info, like always.... will do the checks today....
I play white noise on youtube... which white noise would you recommend....(As of now, I'm using 'shh sound')
Our favourite on TH-cam is just ocean waves and there is also a setting that sounds like the ocean on our nodiee 🌊
Very helpful. Thank you!
It's my pleasure!
How about the snoo? It has the speaker right on the bassinet unde baby's head 🤔
I am not sure about the volume of the white noise in the SNOO. If you have one, I would still check the volume and make sure it isn't too loud and adjust the volume if it is (and it's possible to do so).
Thank you so much for this information.
No worries at all!
Thank you so so much for this educational video! Some folks don't like the title but honestly, I wouldn't have clicked otherwise. I really needed this info!
Fantastic video and incredibly informative! As a parent, finding safe and effective ways to improve my baby's sleep has been a top priority, and your clear guidelines on using white noise safely are a game-changer. I appreciate the emphasis on volume control and positioning to protect our little ones' hearing. An area that might be interesting to explore further is the impact of different types of white noise (like rain sounds versus static noise) on sleep quality and if there's a difference in effectiveness for babies. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and looking forward to more insightful content!
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This might be a silly question, but at what age is good age to try stop using white noise altogether?
There is no reason to stop using it if it helps your child sleep. It’s something that is recommended to children and adults. But what may happen is your child tells you they don’t want it on. Usually this happens sometime between 2 - 4 years. At this point they may become scared of the dark and being alone so they want the lights on and the white noise off so they can see and hear everything.
Many adults even cant sleep when they are moving from cities to the countryside. Its too silent.
I think we've often stopped using them for our children between 1 and 1.5 because we didn't want them to be dependent on them. I hear stories of people who's children woke up during a power outage and couldn't go back to sleep because of no white noise. And adults who can't sleep without it. We didn't want that for our children
My baby is 5 months old. The sound meter reads between 48.1 - 52.2, is that to loud? Also, I have 2 other kids and drive my eldest to preschool 5 days a week. We do listen to music in the car on our way to school. I try to not have it to loud in the car but now between the white noise machine and the music in the car I am wondering if it's too loud for his little ears. Should I be concerned at all and would you recommend me having a earing assessment done on him?
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Thank you so much for your videos
What is the diffrence between low volime (40db) and placing next to the crib and adjusted volume 40db and 2m away?
What white noise do you recc i use waves :)
Hi! What matters is the decibel reading in the crib where your baby is. The important thing is that the db reading there is under the recommended limit.
Hi I’m new here and as a ftm I love your vids but now I’m worried, please give your opinion on the SNOO bassinet and its white noise, it’s unable to be shut off so he sleeps and naps with it! 😢
Thanks for covering this topic!! We use a fan which is under the 60db (according to my watch’s hearing app), but our hatch is quite a bit louder so we’ll turn that down to the recommended level!
I have the hatch sleep sound machine, What’s the recommended level?
@@elizabethfaith5064 we use our for travel so it’s always kinda close to the pack and play, so we have it really close to the lowest level!
@@elizabethfaith5064 the AAP and CDC recommend keeping the noise below 50 - 60 dbA to protect a baby's hearing.
No worries at all!
Dare I ask... What about the volume of these youtube videos I'm watching whilst nursing bubs to sleep?
Emma, thank you very much for the info! Could you please advise - what are the allows dB for a baby during pregnancy? Is it safe to visit for example jazz concerts etc. or better to avoid? Thank you 💗
That's a great question! I haven't spent a significant amount of time digging into this one, but the CDC do have some guidance around it: www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/repro/noise.html
They say avoid noise over 115dB after 20 weeks, which is "as loud as a chainsaw or rock concert". I'd imagine Jazz concerts are much quieter than a chainsaw though :). Even in terms of the rock concert example I'd imagine it varies greatly depending on where you're located. Sorry I can't give a more detailed answer!
@@EmmaHubbard Emma, thank you very much for your reply! 💗
How do you check for decimals?
Am I placing the db reader near the white noise machine or in the bassinet where my baby sleeps?
In the bassinet where your baby sleeps 🙂
FYI- the sound app she recommended is only available on iOS devices.
Very important topic, Emma, thank you. Some battery operated toys are also rather loud? Do you have any advice about dealing with grandparents who talk loudly to little ones all the time?
Handy hint, if you put a piece of cellotape over the holes on the toy's speaker it will really dull down the sound without totally removing it if your little one likes it
Thanks I'll try that
I use an actually table top fan for white noise placed about 5 feet from my toddlers crib and its facing away from her.
Omg I do the same exact thing for my 5 month old and hope I’m not doing damage smh
What about music in daycares during naptime? I’ve walked into my child’s school and it’s used to block out external noise
real question; if a baby cries at 100-120db, (and can be crying for hours a day during the 8-12 wk period) how does more than 50db present a danger to hearing? Tested most of the popular ones, “normal” volume is around 60db on them.
I never experienced my now 5 month old crying for hours. But he never had colic etc. Crying was never that loud either. Maybe I just got lucky?
When doing the noise reading, you do need to turn off background noises though as you might get a higher reading
Exactly.
Is there anything I can do about noise especially if we live near the Highway?
Can their own screaming, which can obviously be very loud, damage their hearing then?
I changed the proximity of my white noise machine! Thank you! Very helpful video as always!
Glad it helped!
I checked mine and I've been playing it around 60 decibels...been playing it at this volume since my baby was born and shes 3mos. Do I need to have her hearing checked?? Pretty unsettling as this is a white noise/sound machine specifically marketed to infants
According to the CDC this level should be ok. Just reduce the volume slightly and try not to worry.
But as always if you are concerned though do talk to your baby's doctor about it and if they would recommend a hearing assessment.
How soon would hearing damage be detectable?
Emma is music ok? We play classical very low
I just measured the room where my newborn will be sleeping, and there's already 38 to 40 decibels of noise from the city :shrug:
Hugely louder - it even bugs my own hearing.
How can I know the decibels of a sound?? Bcz no speaker or wn.machine show the decibels?? Plz guide
The easiest way is using a sound meter app.
I was using it for 3 months but I just realized that it was too loud. Should I be worried about his hearing? he is 13 months now.
i have to use iphone to tell me what is loud. its loud here with all the animals and noises people not being quiet. im glad i saw this. i feel bad for my son.
Our girl has a Moonie bear, and when She was teething, the only thing that would calm her frequent wakeups was the kind of meditation music on It, that turned on when She cried. She was 11months at that time. That was two nights in a row, on the default volume. After those two nights I found that you can turn it down, and did that. Now It plays super quietly, and I only tun It on when she's teething or unsettled/overtired.
It's great that you were able to work out what works for your little one and find the button to turn it down (so often I find them difficult to find!)
@@EmmaHubbard It wasen't a Button either🙈! googled it. It's a hold until max, then hold again, trick. I found it a bit loud to start with, but It goes much louder, wich is a bit weird to me...unless you Place the Teddy fare away from the bed, but that defeats the ourpose of a Teddy.
Damn. My baby was born in spring so very quickly needed air conditioner in her room because it gets VERY hot in the summer here…it was very loud in her room but I thought it was ok because all these websites say the womb is loud so it’s ok to be loud. I probably hurt her hearing
I'm so glad my tot was a ninja, so we had to put the white noise machine across the room so he wouldn't get to it... 😥 we definitely turned it on fairly loud.
I do this. Ive only done this but it came naturally
I have heard that it can cause the baby to wake because its still noise and keeps them in "fight or flight". Is that true?
What I've found out when I was in holiday abroad and came back to Germany. All toys are really really silent. Our white noise machine is really silent at maximum volume. I think 40 dB. Its totally fine. I think the government check this. Great
Thanks for sharing!
Those apps don’t really work… I downloaded a couple and they gave wildly different levels (40 dcb different) in the same conditions at the same time.
I have a pink noise machine and it’s much quieter.
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I wouldnt have clicked if had just said how to use whitenoise machine.
This is something I struggle with all the time, as I really wish I could do this. But unfortunately, as you said people just don't click on the video to watch it if I use titles like these. Then that means parents don't get to hear this important information.
Can we use white noise in TH-cam?
My little one loves white noise of fan. She can fall asleep easily when fan is on. 😂
We all grew up with fans on, in my family.
I just tried the app (not the one you recommended because I couldn't find it) and only with my breathing and my baby sucking her pacifier it's more than 50 😮
It's summer where I am and usually I have the fan on so that would be more noise :/
What about my dog barking? 😭 I worry that her shrill barks here and there are going to harm my baby’s ears 😫.
More annoying than damaging. The machines are a constant sound. Dogs don't bark endlessly.
@@griffinmathers929 maybe your dog doesn’t. 😂😂😂 hahaha no, I get it though 🤗 thanks! 💕
Here and there isn't an issue. A bit like loud music in adults - all the time or regularly prolonged is an issue.
Oh dear..I’m worried bc I checked baby girl’s and it’s 70 …..
Me too
Here's an important question if traffic is loud enough to damage your babies ears should you take your baby out side every day or wouldthat have damaging effects on your baby?
I read somewhere about a theory that white noise cause anxiety later in life, have you heard about this?
Would suggest reading dr Harvey Karp’s take on this and why the study that this advice stems from is flawed.
I actually could feel it bothering me on the loudest level
Am I weird that i still use white noise for my 17 month old boy?
Definitely not! We use it well past that age 🙂
My son is 3 and he still uses it very low and I got my own, I’m a light sleeper and I never knew about these till I had a baby! lol
Unpopular opinion...
I hate hearing white noise.
I finally found a sound I liked that didn't annoy me and tried using it to help me sleep. It was very peaceful excect that every time I used it I had nightmares. Every. Single. Time.
Did it help me fall asleep? Yes. Did it make my sleep worse? Also yes. 😂
All of these test were performed at max volume. Couldn't we just simply turn the volume down? I never use the white noise option on my sound machine. I prefer rain drops. I usually keep the volume very low and not very close to the sleep area.
Yes, you can either turn the volume down and/or increase the distance between the white noise machine and the crib so it's below 50-60 db for your baby. It's not the white noise itself that can be harmful, it's the prolonged exposure to constant noise over 60 db, be it white noise, raindrops, music etc.
Emma probably has no control over the titles. Her content is always good. Try to look past the titles and go for the content. If you have listened to her for some time you know she is not an alarmist by any means.
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I hate this trend with these noise machines, why are parents doing this to babies? I find it appalling, constant noise for a sleeping baby, please stop this madness. Who knows if this will affect brain development or emotional distress later on.
Why is there a machine for this ? I use TH-cam, there's many free baby sleeping White noise you can play for hours and I just play it quietly on my old phone , why spend money on a machine?
Because you might need your phone
Goodness me, how did we manage without white noise machine all those years ago why don’t you just let the babies get used to the noise around them just something else for you to pay out for no need for them ,now You can all have a go at me for saying this 😊
Perhaps another way of thinking of it is this: If we’ve found something that we know helps babies sleep better that we didn’t know about in the past, should we not use it? Why wouldn’t we when studies show it helps significantly?
@@EmmaHubbard hi Emma, I get what you’re saying I’m not saying don’t use them I’m just saying do you not think it’s putting more pressure on parents to use something that they don’t necessarily need or can afford making them think that if they don’t have one, their babies are not going to sleep and are the babies able to sleep without the white noise. Once they’ve been using them. You only have to look at the comments to see how some parents are worrying about. Is the noise too loud or have I got it loud enough wishing you all the best much love🤗🫶🏼
I don’t think sharing factual information puts pressure on parents. I think parents should have access to high quality information and should be able to make decisions they are comfortable with based on that information without judgement or criticism.
In terms of purchasing things - it’s not necessary to buy a white noise machine. There are lots of free white noise tracks on TH-cam that many parents choose to use.