Is It OK For Baby To Sleep With Music On?

Is it okay for baby to sleep with music on?

The numerous benefits that science has studied on the effect of sleep music on babies at bedtime cannot be ignored.

From forming a sleep association with music  to enhanced cognitive development of your baby’s brain, music can provide many advantages for a baby.

Some of these include the following:

• Better Baby Sleep Quality:

Studies compared babies who  fall asleep with music on sleep better and for longer periods of time instead of waking up every few hours.

Many babies tend to have sleeping problems in the beginning, and baby music can help. 

Babies form associations with events.

Your baby can gradually associate music with sleep. This will eventually help the baby feel more comfortable when they’re put to bed .

• Music For Enhancing  Baby Brain Development:

Music plays an essential role in enhancing brain development of your  baby.

A baby continues to listen and learn from the music even after they fall asleep, since their brains continue to function.

This helps the baby’s brain develop better and improve during this period. 

Baby’s brain picks up everything from its environment and develops accordingly.

• Music Improves Baby’s Sensory Functions:

Babies learn from every little detail in their surrounding.

This is why the toddler stage is one of the most crucial stages to development of the baby’s sensory levels.

Similarly, music develops the baby’s listening skills.

It also helps improve the neurological functioning towards music.

Over all, developing the listening ability of your baby will help baby link music to different activities that baby will enjoy.

These activities might be playing musical instruments, dancing and singing.

• Music As A Mood Lift:

A baby can become stressed as an adult can due to the number of new experiences everyday.

For this reason, it is essential to let a baby rest fully during sleep time.

Music can comfort your baby and start linking music to the comfort and security of sleep. 

It also helps in lifting the baby’s mood specially if your baby is cranky.

• Enhancing Development of Vocabulary:

Since music stimulates the sensory nervous system of the baby, it also improves the baby’s development of vocabulary.

This is why babies who listen to nursery rhymes learn words and sounds faster than the ones who don’t.

Repeated exposure to music can help gradually form the baby’s brain development and as a result, vocabulary as well.

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