everything used to wake her up- and it was too much when I had just gotten her to sleep and then some stupid loud noise would awaken her and then hours of crying and then she would get so overwrought that she could not get to sleep at night.....
The trait comes from me- I am undone by loud sounds....grew up in the suburbs and became a farmer- I just cannot handle town and city noises very often. I was exposed to lots of sounds, second to youngest in a very loud big happy family- but that did not ever accustom me to them. I had to find a way as an adult to survive and thrive with my traits.
Children do become capable of adaptation, but it is completely normal for a mom of a baby of that age to want the baby to not get waked up. Especially in many traditional cultures. My own grandmother- mother to 10 from Europe- insisted on no alarm clocks and no sounds to wake up any of her children- ever. She said that when the baby and or child sleeps its brain grows. This is actually true- neuroscientists say.
My daughter has been playing at a friend's house with a 4 yr old younger brother who still naps and EVERYONE has to talk in whispers or go outside. Simply no noise in the house still, the doorbell gets turned off, etc.
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