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Theory behind Lulla Pacifier

The use of white noise as soothing sounds is a common way to calm babies and infants, especially babies with colic. The sounds help the baby to calm down and the result is often that the baby stops crying and goes to sleep.

There are a lot of machines on the market that produces soothing sounds. The drawbacks with these machines are that they are often expensive and it’s often lacks of options for controlling time intervals. The advantage of these machines is that they work… However, many parents choose to produce their own soothing sounds. Normal ways to produce white noise is to use a vacuum cleaner, hair dryer or running water. Before you burn your vacuum cleaner’s motor: download and try our app – Lulla Pacifier.

What is Colic?

Colic is inconsolable crying in a healthy newborn baby with bouts of fussiness and irritability. The condition has no known cause but is harmless, although it can be very distressing for parents or carers. It’s very common, affecting up to two out of every 10 babies.

How can my baby get the maximum benefit from using Lulla Pacifier?

To receive the maximum benefit from our Lulla Pacifier app, just follow these simple instructions:

• Your child should be in his or her own bed to receive maximum benefit, to establish a familiar environment for sleep. To help prevent sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), place your newborn on his or her back, preferably on a firm mattress, with no covering or only a sheet or light blanket used for covering.

• Play the music only at regularly scheduled bed time and nap time as part of your child’s normal sleep routine. Regularly scheduled sleep times are recommended to help establish a routine that promotes sleep.

• Children usually quiet down and begin to relax within 15 to 20 minutes of playing the sounds. It may take several days of usage at nap times and bed times for you and your child to enjoy the full benefits of each sound.

• If there is noise in other parts of the house that will wake a sleeping baby, place the speakers along the wall where the noise is most likely to come through, with the speakers facing your baby.

• If the child is crying, gradually turn up the volume of the White Noise to a level where your baby notices or reacts to the sound, yet never louder than the sound of the crying. As the child begins to settle down a little, you can begin to reduce the volume gradually with the baby until you reach a low comfortable volume level.

• To help baby relax and fall asleep, the ultimate goal is a low comfortable volume just loud enough to mask any bothersome noises that could disturb the sleeping little one.

• Never use headphones or ear buds on a child under 5 years of age. Always use speakers placed at a safe distance from the child’s reach. Never place a speaker in the crib/bed with the child, and keep all stereos, speakers and wires far away from the reach of little curious hands. It is very easy for a child to entangle themselves in very dangerous speaker wire.

• Our Lulla Pacifier sound is meant to be used in the baby’s room or a nursery, not in a moving vehicle. NEVER play Lulla Pacifier while driving or operating any type of machine.

What exactly is white noise, and why is it so beneficial for babies?

White noise is a subtle, steady sound found in nature.

Examples of white noise include the sound of ocean waves gently caressing the shore, a rain shower, a waterfall, or the wind blowing through the trees. It can also be the smoothened sound of a vacuum cleaner, a blow dryer, or an electric fan hum.

For many babies, especially crying babies with colic, the monotony of an external noise is especially soothing. (How often have you gotten drowsy with the gentle sound of a motor running?) That’s why many pediatricians recommend white noise as part of a baby’s sleep regimen.

Despite its name, white noise is not a noise. Rather, it is a sound frequency or signal. Research has shown that certain sonic frequencies in white noise have a calming effect on humans of all ages. That’s why the gentle continuous sound of white noise in our baby lullaby app promotes a calm mood to help your baby relax and/or fall asleep, as well as soothe colic.

In addition, general environmental noise, like noisy traffic outside the baby’s nursery or loud noises created by the baby’s siblings, may upset your baby or keep your newborn infant awake. Research has also shown that a steady stream of the same peaceful sound, such as white noise, can filter and mask distracting noises.

If your baby or toddler is startled by, or is afraid of, loud noises such as thunder, the soothing white noise can help mask those sounds while at the same time calm your child down. The same calming benefits can be used to ease “separation anxiety,” where your child cries or throws a tantrum when you try to leave the bedroom or nursery.

Which Lulla Pacifier sound is best for my baby?

It depends on your baby and the circumstances; that’s why we offer a variety of white noise sounds, all of which are known to offer calming benefits. For example, based on their reaction to the sounds, some babies may prefer the pitch of a vacuum cleaner sound while others may find the lower toned hum of a clothes dryer more soothing.

WAYS to Make Your Baby Sleep:

Develop a realistic attitude about nighttime parenting.

Especially in the first six months, avoid sleep trainers who advise you to let your baby “cry-it-out.”

Stay flexible. No single approach will work with all babies all the time or even all the time with the same baby.

Decide where baby sleeps best.

Get baby used to a variety of sleep associations.

Daytime mellowing. A peaceful daytime is likely to lead to a restful night.

Set predictable and consistent nap routines.

Consistent bedtimes and rituals.

Give baby a warm bath followed by a soothing massage to relax tense muscles and busy minds.

Tank up your baby during the day. Babies need to learn that daytime is for eating and nighttime is mostly for sleeping.

Nursing down: Nestle next to your baby and breastfeed or bottlefeed him off to sleep.

Fathering down: Place baby in the neck nestle position and rock your baby to sleep.

Rocking or walking down: Try rocking baby to sleep in a bedside rocking chair, or walk with baby, patting her back and singing or praying.

Nestling down: lie down with your sleeping baby next to you and nestle close to her until she is sound asleep.

Wearing down: When baby falls asleep in the sling and draped over your chest once you lie down, you both can take a much-needed nap.

Swinging down: Once in a while a moving plastic seat may be more sleep inducing than a familiar pair of arms.

Driving down: Place baby in a carseat and drive around until she falls asleep.

Dress for the occasion. In the early months, many babies like to “sleep tight,” securely swaddled in a cotton baby blanket. Older infants most often like to sleep “loose”.

Quiet in the bedroom.

Darkness in the bedroom.

Repetitive, nearly monotonous sounds that lull baby to sleep are known as white noise, such as the sounds of a fan or a air conditioner.

Try a continuous-play tape recording of your baby’s favorite lullabies.

If you have a separation-sensitive baby, leave a breast pad in the cradle, or play a continuous tape recording of yourself singing a bedtime lullaby.

A full tummy (but not too full).

Lessen physical discomforts: Clear the nose, relieve teething pain, change wet or soiled diapers and remove irritating sleepwear.

A warm bed.

Create the right bedroom temperature and humidity.

Honor your partner with his share of nighttime parenting.

Detect hidden medical causes of nightwaking.

Lulla Pacifier’s Video

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