BEING A DAD: WHITE NOISE TO SLEEP THE BABY

White noise at low intensity favors relaxation and sleep in people and for this reason it is a good alternative when trying to get our baby to sleep.

When we talk about white noise we mean the sound that comes from an untuned television channel (when we see snow), the noise of a dryer or that of the vacuum cleaner.

This sound also masks other unwanted external noises, causing the baby not to notice that a door is closed, that the telephone rings or the conversations of others.

It seems that the white noise closely resembles the sound of fluids flowing and in general to life inside the womb of his mother and therefore would help him calm down.

Some studies have been done in this regard and it has been shown that Babies who hear white noise are three times as likely to fall asleep that those who do not listen to it (well, I imagine that others also fall asleep, only it may take longer).

And now you will ask: Where do I get the white noise?

Well, luckily, white noise can be easily achieved with elements we have at home. Let's see:

We can start a small fan, an air purifier, the air conditioning ... The problem is that both fans and air conditioners are increasingly sophisticated and therefore generate less noise.

A cheap computer can also be a perfect white noise generator. I say cheap because fans usually make more noise than computers equipped with more sophisticated ventilation (or with liquid cooling). If the computer in question also takes some time without being cleaned inside, surely the noise is more than acceptable.

We can turn on too a radio with a speaker without a tuned station and we can enjoy hours and hours of white noise (it seems to me the best option ... well, nice, cheap).

The vacuum cleaner, the dryer and the like also generate white noise, but it can be annoying for others and I think it is also not a plan to charge the appliances for “using them” too much.

Breathe like Darth Vader. I don't know if the noise generated is white at all, but it works for me quite a bit to breathe as if I had asthma or a respiratory illness (or put another way, as if I were sound asleep).
In order not to wear out, the ideal is to do it with your mouth open and your teeth closed (I don't know if I explain myself). So we will get something like a wheezing gasp similar to white noise.

Enter Simplynoise, turn on the speakers and enjoy a relaxing white noise.

You can also burn an audio CD with one or more white noise tracks. You can download 30 wonderful seconds of white noise on the same Internet page that I have placed above.
You will have to do a bit of audio editing to replicate the 30 seconds again and again (to give the theme a bit of duration).
You can also download an hour of rain and storm noise, which is not entirely white noise, but it can work.

Anyway, you know, if you have tried with those beautiful lullabies that you know or with classical music and the result does not satisfy you, you can always try with what you would never think would relax a baby: noise (but white, of course).