The paranoid parents with sleeping babies - First Thoughts

Have you ever been to someone's house and were asked to be very quiet because a baby is sleeping? You don't understand why it's such a big deal; the baby is in a room behind closed doors; how much noise is too much noise? You end up awkwardly in a room full of people staring at each other paranoid that you would be accused for waking the baby up.

The truth is there's nothing more desirable for a parent than when a child has a good nap/sleep. Without enough sleep, babies are cranky, fussy (not fuzzy), and throws tantrum fits. Baby nap time is also a time when parents can relax. How do parents relax when they can't make noise in the house themselves? How do parents host others in this situation?

HereTryThis: Sound "loudness" can be picked up by a common device called a decibel (DB) meter. It's typically known to be used by traffic police to measure noise of illegal automotive exhaust systems. Imagine having sensors placed inside a baby's room and a remote reader/indicator that parents can carry with them (or displayed on the screens of their smart phone, laptop, Apple products, or computer). When babies are woken up by loudness of noise, the program can record the point of occurrence or the DB level that lead up to the baby's awakening. Once that threshold is set, the reader/indicator will warn people when their DB level is reaching the levels that may "potentially" wake up the sleeping babies.

Go ahead and watch your favorite TV show, listen to that music, or chat away with your friends. Just keep an eye on that meter to not go over your DB limit!