White Noise - Sacramento,CA

Keep using it! He'll grow out of needing it eventually and there's no harm in keeping it running --especially if it helps everyone sleep!

There are some great ideas already but could be expensive. I would be concerned about mold and switch to a small inexpensive fan.

OMG! I LOVE the white noise thing! We had an air purifier when our son was newborn and realized that it really helped drown out the noises that scared him awake otherwise.
So we still use one - my hubby snores like a dragon and we live in Mountain House - so there are huge construction trucks, cement mixers and landscapers that start bombing past our house at 7am in winter and 6am in summer. My friend's grown sons used a white noise machine until they were big boys and decided too cool to have one and weaned themselves off it.
I say it's harmless and beneficial. find something else to worry about Mama! ;)

P.S. the old white noise machine died and we tried to put Ian to sleep without one - in the middle of the night he got out of bed and came into our room and tried to plug my hubby's nose to stop his snoring. "Daddy, you're too loud!"
We got a new one the next day. The End.

I'm addicted to white noise so my husband's been determined that our girls don't follow in my footsteps. I think your son might be too young to be addicted yet but one thing you could try is a white noise machine and keep turning the volume down. Ease him off of it. I would really try to avoid him getting too used to it. I don't know if some people are just better sleepers than others etc or if it's learned behaviour at all but after a lifetime of being a bad sleeper, I wish I'd been forced as a kid to just learn to sleep through things or something. If you take the approach that he'll grow out of any addiction (may be true) and don't want to pay for a white noise machine, a fan turned to the wall works fine. I have a white noise maker but use the fan half the time as it's just as effective.

get a sound machine with a variety of noises, it will also have the white noise - GREAT for drowning out noise from inside OR outside the house. Target has a great one for about $25 that has an alarm/clock/radio as well. lots of variety - nice sounds. i ask my son at bed time do you want music or sounds & he usually picks sounds - thunder

M.,

I don't think it will hurt to keep using it for a little while but with the moisture, you could have an issue with mold down the line.- I would switch to an air filter system. Thats what we have and our son sleeps so soundly with it.

Hope this helps-

M.

Hi M.
instead of a humidifier, they have these wave machines, it's a little machine that makes a subtle sounds of waves (or other aspects of nature) you can turn it as low or as high as you like.
We got one a long time ago because our neighbor next door whose bedroom faced ours would snore so loudly each night that it would awakened us. At first it took some getting used to hearing waves but after a couple of days, it did the trick.... I don't think anything is wrong with lulling your child to sleep with the sound of waves,it's rather relaxing and might help him sleep even better..

good luck to you!!