Are you finding it difficult to get your little one to settle down?
Calming Sounds on CBeebies Radio is here to help.
Each of the sounds will play continuously for eight hours to avoid your little one being disturbed.
What is Calming Sounds?
Calming sounds is a brand new collection of audio on CBeebies Radio designed to help your little one relax.
There are eight sounds to choose from which allows you to experiment and find which one works best:
Waves, birdsong, rain, car journey, spaceship, white noise, pink noise and brown noise.
How can I find the calming sounds?
The collection of sounds is available on the CBeebies Radio website, or you can save this page to your home screen to use whenever you like.
You can even download the sounds for free using the BBC Sounds app, which means you can use them at any time - even if you don't have an internet connection.
You can also listen to calming sounds through your smart speaker by asking for them directly. Just say, “Open CBeebies and play the calming sounds of… waves / birdsong / rain / car journey / spaceship / white noise / pink noise / brown noise.”
Benefits of Calming Sounds
- Claire Benton, Head of Audiology, Nottingham:
“Many children find these sounds relaxing and listening to them can help a child feel calm enough to fall asleep.
Having relaxing sounds on in the background can also hugely help those children with tinnitus or sensitivity to sounds.
The quiet around bedtime can make it difficult to manage your tinnitus, feeling anxious or stressed about not sleeping can make it worse – so listening to quiet, relaxing sounds can be a big help.
For children who are sensitive to sounds, having relaxing sounds on can ease anxiety and there is emerging evidence that having them on all night can help ‘re-set’ the auditory system over time.
Having these sounds available so easily is a fabulous resource for families.”
- Dr Anna Weighall, cognitive developmental psychologist:
“We naturally cycle through light and deeper sleep and have moments close to waking during the night.
Usually we don't notice these and fall back to sleep - but if the environment has changed between falling asleep and these lighter sleep phases this can then trigger a wakeful response which can be problematic.
Playing calming sounds could get round this issue if a child tends to fall asleep listening to audio.”
