When it comes to sleep there are two basic kinds of moms.
1) The mom who is so exhausted at the end of the day that she collapses in a deep dreamless sleep.
2) the mom who's brain refuses to stop spinning at day's end, like some rabid hamster on a squeaky wheel.
These website recommendations are for Group 2, and especially those Group 2 moms who always wondered if a white noise machine would actually help them get some shut eye. There's no need to go buy some ridiculous sound machine (that your husband is probably going to make fun of anyway), just point your mouse to Free Nature Sounds or Sound Sleeping.
Both sites offer free soothing sounds in .wav form that you can custom mix and play from your computer for free. Free Nature Sounds allows you to download a .wav file that you can convert on your own to play on headphones. Sound Sleeping offers premixed sounds that you can download as mp3s for a fee, from $2 to $4.
Free Nature Sounds has an interesting mix of nature and animal sounds that repeat on loops. The mixer has four channels, so you can choose up to four sounds at once, and even play around with the stereo effects. Of course, four sounds at once might be fun to play with, but may not be very soothing for sleep. Who can sleep to the sounds of a sheep and horse in the rain at a beach anyway?
Sound Sleeping has five channels, which includes music like drums and flute. These tribal sounds are what you'd expect to hear in a yoga studio and are best left to meditation rather than sleep aids (unless you like that sort of thing). The other four channels have nature sounds like rain, ocean, creek, crickets and wind chimes. You can also adjust the stereo effects on this one, but there's no farm animals over here.
Try it out and see if the soothing sounds of the ocean rain or sheep and frogs or chimes and crickets helps you get some much needed sleep tonight.
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LOL I don't even need to be a mom for my brain to spin like a hyped up hamster. I will have to try those methods out and hopefully get some much needed rest.
Sound Sleeping might also make a nice background noise for yoga, at least from the description.
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