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01-29-2013 at 3:59 PM
Rose120
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Dog & Baby

So I've read that your baby will recognize your voices when it is born and can even get used to your dog barking. Out of curiosity, anyone have any experience with this? If she is used to hearing our dog bark now, will it not bother her as much when she's here? I told my husband we are going to have to plan nap time around the time when the mailman comes because our dog goes nuts....even with all the blinds closed she still knows it's him.... crossing my fingers that maybe the baby will just get used to it faster since she's been listening to her all this time?
01-29-2013 at 4:12 PM
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well, in the beginning, she may tune it out. My friend's baby slept right through all the noise in the coffee shop and he is 3 weeks old. you don't want to tip toe too much around then as to make them light sleepers

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01-29-2013 at 4:31 PM
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I would play it by ear.  My dog also is on delivery man/mail man patrol- he has a 100% success rate!

 
01-29-2013 at 4:31 PM
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FTM here with 2 dogs, so no personal experience. My sister's son was never woken up by her dogs barking. She has 2 as well, and they go crazy. He always slept right through it, even as a newborn in his swing in the living room with the dogs. 

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01-29-2013 at 5:10 PM
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My dog has a very loud bark, anytime someone comes up to the house. It very rarely bothers Ds. Sometimes it startled him, but not often.

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01-29-2013 at 5:17 PM
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My son recognized our dogs. Our dogs are VERY vocal when they play (growling, yelping, barking, etc) and my son RARELY gets upset by it. If the doorbell rings and they start barking, he usually just startles and then is just fine. Sometimes he'll cry for, seriously, 2 seconds and then realizes it was just his doggies and stops.

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01-29-2013 at 6:05 PM
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DD's swing, where she took some of her naps in early infancy, was right next to our dog's favorite "barking window". He's a major alertbarker, so he's hot on it when the mailman comes to town. DD cocsistently slept thru barking that was happening at very close range. She also slept thru the vacuum. Interestingly, she would startle when my dog shook his collar, which is a sound that's probably not loud enough to penetrate the womb during pregnancy.

 
01-29-2013 at 6:08 PM
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Our dogs barking never bothered our first. Even now he sleeps right through it.

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01-29-2013 at 7:33 PM
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This is making me feel very good. Thank you! I have a cousin whose baby doesn't even jump when dogs bark because she lives with two barky dogs, so I was hoping it would be like this with most kids...
01-30-2013 at 12:26 AM
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DS doesn't get upset when our German shepherd barks but if he's asleep it definitely wakes him up... then again EVERYTHING wakes up my DS.... a sound sleeper he is not 


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01-30-2013 at 9:04 AM
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RussianMommy:
you don't want to tip toe too much around then as to make them light sleepers

Yea... it doesn't work like that. If your LO is going to be a light sleeper he/she is going to be a light sleeper regardless of what you do in the first weeks. 

In the beginning DD slept through everything. The dogs barking, the vacuum cleaner, the TV... it really didn't matter. Then we hit the 4 month wakeful. To this day she's still a light sleeper. We have a white noise machine in her room and any little sound still wakes her.  



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