Baby crack machine?

[DorkFish]

We have one for Liam. The light part stopped rotating but we still use it every night for the sound. Also, we turn on the light as a night light if we need to go in his room

[ufcasey]

Never even heard of it. But I swear by the FP Seahorse.

[fortmyersbride]

I have one and think it helped both kids fall asleep better and stay asleep better as babies. My DS did not become dependent on it, but I did! I became so accustomed to the rain sound, that now I can't sleep without white noise

[MamaMaui24]

We have that and haven't used the lights yet, but so far DS likes the regular ol' cheap box fan for white noise.

[karinothing]

Jun 7, 2012 14:19:19 GMT -5 fortmyersbride said:

I have one and think it helped both kids fall asleep better and stay asleep better as babies. My DS did not become dependent on it, but I did! I became so accustomed to the rain sound, that now I can't sleep without white noise

Ha ha. This is me too! I even broke DH Our fan went out the other night and he was completely freaking. Poor guy.

Anyhoo, we have one by Graco (I think). It doesn't project but just has a blue light. I have zero clue if it makes him sleep longer (he can nap just fine w/out it). But I don't want to chance it so on it stays.

[sewpinkgal]

We also have a Graco white noise machine and I think it helps him get into sleep mode and then stay asleep due to blocking out other sounds. H and I sleep with a fan, so I'm not too concerned about J sleeping with white noise either.

[egishere]

Jun 7, 2012 14:07:28 GMT -5 DorkFish said:

We have one for Liam. The light part stopped rotating but we still use it every night for the sound. Also, we turn on the light as a night light if we need to go in his room

same here but the sound works great and they love it! We also put the FP seahorse in their cribs.

[sawyerthedestroyer]

We have the sleep sheep and the sea horse. I like the sleep sheep because it helps drown out the household noises while DS is falling asleep and we got the travel size one so even when he's not at home, there's a familiar sound that lets him know it's time to sleep.. He didn't give a crap about the seahorse until he figured out how to turn it on himself.

[OscarQ]

I haven't seen those before. We have a sleep sheep and the FP seahorse.

[thatgirl2478]

we have the FP seahorse & love it. We also have this one:

www.amazon.com/DEX-Products-Sound-Sleeper-SS-01/dp/B00008439C/ref=sr_1_6?s=baby-products&ie=UTF8&qid=1339098773&sr=1-6

The waves are nice and help us sleep too

[hopecounts]

We have it and I really believe it helps DS sleep better. Her room is on the front of the house and it blocks the street noise.

[slug*bug]

We love ours: we've had two...one crapped out when DS was maybe 5 mos. old, but #2 went strong for about 2 1/2 years until last week when the light started to die. (And I do like the light b/c I could check on them w/o any additional lights, which is nice.) We've always lived in apartments, so masking outside sounds has been important for us and it worked well.

I don't know if it was chance or the sound machine, but both kids have been very good at putting themselves to sleep. DS is now putting himself down for his afternoon nap (!): he'll go in his room and turn the machine on and climb into bed...I don't know if it's dependency so much as the noise machine is just part of our naptime/nighttime routines and they're used to it.

[dcrunnergirl]

We have one in each of the LO's rooms, and love it. It's great at drowning out sounds in other rooms, and when they were little, it was great at calming them. We take it on travel to help them sleep too. They aren't dependent on it, and sleep at daycare just fine without it. \

We started with the sleep sheeps but because they don't play continuously and shut off right at 45 minutes when the sleep cycle ends, they were a PITA.

[DazeyDee]

We have just a normal Homedics SoundSpa with an iPod dock. I love it, and so does DD - we use the ocean sound, and both of us sleep better with it.

I joke that when she finally gets to the ocean she's going to think it's nap time

[raisingroxy]

We have 2, one for each kid. They are one of the many reasons our babies slept 11 hours a night at just 9 weeks old. Best thing ever!

[badtzmaru22]

I don't know about that one, but we have a sleep sheep. I think it works well on me. Inconclusive on the baby.

[beaver12]

We have that one and the Munchkin version. We've had the first one longer, but I can already tell that the Munchkin one is built better. We don't use the projector every night, but there are times where it definitely helps DD, especially at naps.

[sweetnsour]

I use that for my daughter who is 18 months. She sleeps very well at night. I think it helps drown out her brother who always plays before bed and their bedrooms are right next to each other. My son also used one and one day it broke. He didn't become dependent on it. He still slept fine.

[teacherjulie]

We have two one is our travel one. Have used it for two years picture no longer rotates but Alice still loves it

[Willis Jackson]

It did nothing but get DH hooked on rain sounds.

[nannersp]

We still use one with our daughter, and she'll be 4 in October! And I'm probably dependent on it myself since I hear it through her monitor throughout the night.

[oukapu]

She only liked the rain sounds hen she was really little. We don't use it anymore after six months. We don't do night lights anymore because she will wake up and cry.

[drloretta]

DD as had some sort of "machine" helping her sleep from almost Day 1. And she's never become dependent on them.

When she was a nb, we had a music and vibration thing that went on her PnP. When she got older she had a musical thing on her crib. Now she has a $5 fan from WalMart sitting outside her room as white noise.

I'd go with a standard fan before spending $$$ on a special "lullaby machine".

[froggy76]

We use one and DD sleeps great. It blocks out all the noise outside her room. I sent the Sleep Sheep to daycare so she can have white noise there, too. Her teacher at daycare complains that she wakes up at the slightest sound, so maybe she is dependent on the white noise.

We also use the projector for some light in her room at night, but after only a few months of use, the motor is SO loud.

[DarcyLongfellow]

We have it -- DD has slept with the ocean noise every single night and nap of her life since we got it when she was 4 months old. I travel with it -- I even put it in our carry on when we went to Puerto Rico so it wouldn't get lost if our luggage was lost!

I have a love/hate relationship with it, though. Not because she's dependent on it, but because the damn thing breaks every couple of months. The noise part works perfectly, but the light breaks constantly. I honestly think we've been through 10 or so at this point. The light will still turn on, but it stops rotating. Then DD freaks, so we trek back to Bed Bath and Beyond to get another one, and add another receipt to our huge stapled stack of them.

If you get it, don't order from Amazon. Definitely go to BBB so you can exchange it when (not if, when) it breaks.