Does loud noise have any effect on babies?

After having a baby, most families are usually very careful and try to keep quiet or speak in a very low voice, for fear of disturbing or scaring the baby. Some parents dare not take their babies to a very noisy environment, for fear of affecting the baby. Moreover, after the baby is born, the hearing is not fully developed. If the sound is too loud, will it affect the baby?

Does loud noise have any effect on babies?

If the baby is often in a noisy environment, it will be detrimental to the normal development of the auditory system. However, an occasional noise will not affect hearing. You can observe the hearing condition of infants and young children more often and be careful to avoid exposing your baby to a strong noise environment. This is because living in a high-decibel noise environment for a long time will gradually dull a person's hearing, speed up their breathing and heartbeat, cause headaches and insomnia, and make them irritable.

How to test your baby's hearing

1 month: Talk to your baby and observe whether he reacts to changes in your voice and whether he turns to look at you.

2 months: Talk to your baby softly or play some soft music to see if your baby turns his head towards the source of the sound.

3~4 months: Play a female voice song for your baby first, and then switch to a male voice as soon as your baby gets used to it to see if your baby will have a different reaction.

5~6 months: Talk to your baby and see if he will interact with your voice. He cannot speak, but he can babble.

7-8 months: Call "Dad" in front of the baby and see if the baby will turn his head to look at Dad.

9 months: When playing with your baby, such as a small piano, guide your baby to hit the high and low notes, and observe whether your baby knows where the high and low notes are.

10-12 months: Hold the wind chime above and below the baby and shake it to make sounds, and see if the baby raises or lowers his head in response to the sounds.

How to protect your baby's hearing

Protect your baby's ears when bathing him/her. Because the baby is relatively small and not very sensible, he likes to move around a lot, and water can easily flow into his ears and cause inflammation. You can put some cotton balls in your ears when taking a bath, and be gentle when bathing to prevent water from entering your ears. Sometimes when babies are disobedient, many parents will beat them, and sometimes even slap them. This can cause great harm to the ears and can easily lead to hearing loss, deafness, etc. Therefore, children should not be beaten hard in normal times, and they should never be slapped hard.

For babies whose auditory organs are still developing, hearing needs to be well protected, so it is even more important to protect hearing.

The baby's eardrum is not yet fully developed, so when cleaning the baby's ears, be gentle and don't use too much force to avoid hurting the baby's eardrum. Also, in life, be careful not to take your baby to places with particularly noisy noises for too long. These are very effective ways to protect hearing.