


Timer – White noise should be played constantly during nap times and overnight, but if you live in a very quiet area you might want the white noise to switch off as soon as your baby is in deep sleep and the house is quiet.This keeps you from having to spend fortunes on replacing batteries and being stuck with a flat white noise unit. Battery Life – We especially looked for a unit that used a rechargeable battery and could work without being plugged in.So let’s get to the review… We looked at the following functions: Using white noise during this time, will help tremendously with your little one, helping them calm down, as well as creating a great sleep cue and familiarity. Forty newborns were studied and it was found that 80 percent were able to fall asleep after five minutes of hearing white noise. In a 1990 study published in the Archives of Disease in Childhood(Trusted Source) showed that white noise is indeed helpful. So when you live near a noisy road, have gardening services working all day or even just a toddler running around when your little one should be sleeping this will be pure gold! White noise is effective (at the right pitch) at blocking out external sounds. White noise has so many benefits! Newborn babies really enjoy white noise as it mimics the sound of the womb in which they were for 9 months! The sound of blood rushing through the placenta is a familiar sound and helps them calm down and fall asleep.įor older babies it soothes and boosts sleep, it makes good sleep better and once your little one links the sound of white noise with sleep they will move to a sleepy phase as soon as they start hearing it! It is a wonderful sleep cue. So we took to the South African “online streets” and sourced some machines to test and review and we finally get to share the results! But first off why on earth would you want to play white noise? The pro’s of playing white noise to your little one: During sleep coaching we ALWAYS suggest using a white noise machine, hence a frequent question we get asked: “What is the best white noise machine to use!?”.
