I don't know, what's Snoo with you?

Does anyone here have experience with the Snoo "smart sleeper" bassinet sold by Dr. Harvey Karp's Happiest Baby company?

Reviews are outstanding, appears designed to reduce SIDS death risk, respond to baby's fussing with more motion, white noise.

Price: about what a high-end AR would cost. Resale value high if not planning another little one.

High priced gimmick to allay the anxiety of first time parents. My nephew bought one for his newborn.
The old methods plus parental education is all that is needed.

Never heard of it. Sounds like a whole lot of nonsense to me. Spending thousands on a Bassinet? An incredible waste of money.

My wife and I just had our third child who is now less than two weeks old. I've learned with three kids that you never buy the most expensive gadget nor the cheapest. Babies will do what they do no matter what. It reduces SIDS? Oh please.

Some things do make life easier and more convenient for the parent. In that case, you must weigh that convenience and if it's worth it for the price. In our case we've spent way too much money on baby crap that we easily could've done without.

Ahh, the happiest baby. It teaches that white noise and swaddling help babies sleep. I mean it makes sense right? Babies spent 9 months listening to the swooshing sounds and heart beat if their mother. They had a somewhat restricted movement.

Now, they're in a quieter environment and can flail about.

Ever almost fall asleep and have that falling sensation causing your whole body to jerk? Babies do it too they just haven't figured out how to drop back to sleep.

Enjoy them in all their glory.

No experience with babies myself, but many people benefit from white noise when trying to sleep, so it’s somewhat hard to believe that it might not help infants as well.

The problem that can arise, though, is that it can become something we must have to fall asleep, and if it’s no longer supplied, then what? Conditioning a child to need something like white noise to sleep isn’t as bad as drugging them (as I’ve read about here as well), but it seems to me that it can still have undesirable consequences.

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Exactly, babies need to be able to comfort themselves to fall asleep. A few years back it was an imitation of the mother's heart these companies were pushing. How do kids in Afghanistan and the third world ever learn to sleep without these expensive devices??

I have three kids.

The first two slept OK.

The third was born very premature, spent three months in the NICU, and slept HORRIBLY once he finally got home. It was tough to get him to sleep in the first place, and then he'd wake up constantly and need to be soothed back to sleep.

We got a Snoo. It was a lifesaver.

I think the naysayers may not understand what it actually does. It's not a bassinet with a white noise machine in it.

The "mattress" part inside the bassinet is connected to a motor that makes it sway back and forth the way parents rock babies.

It has a microphone that listens to the baby's breathing/fussing/crying.

If it hears the baby starting to wake up and fuss, it plays louder/more soothing sounds and increases the swaying motion (you can set it to sway very gently all the time or to normally be still).

With the Snoo, we went pretty much instantly from spending 10-15 minutes getting him back to sleep every 30 minutes all night to him sleeping through the 2-3 hours between feedings all night.

Yes, it's expensive, but the dismissive naysayers either don't understand what it does, don't understand that not every baby sleeps the same, or are just masochists.

Could we have managed without it?

Sure.

Was getting MUCH more sleep with MANY fewer interruptions for several months worth $1500?

Hell yes it was, and I'd do it again in a heartbeat.

Thanks, maladat. That confirms the user reviews I've read.

We're offering it to our grandson"s parents if they want to try it.

All your grandson needs is to be swaddled in what I call a “baby burrito” Velcro swaddle and a white noise generator turned up pretty loud.

We just had three children and that worked well for them.

As he gets older, he can go in a “sleep sack” which gives him comfort and also keeps him cozy all while being FAR safer than a blanket.

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Originally posted by PASig:
All your grandson needs is to be swaddled in what I call a “baby burrito” Velcro swaddle and a white noise generator turned up pretty loud.

We just had three children and that worked well for them.

That worked great for my first two. Didn't do squat for #3.

Babies are not all the same.

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Originally posted by PASig:
All your grandson needs is to be swaddled in what I call a “baby burrito” Velcro swaddle and a white noise generator turned up pretty loud.

We just had three children and that worked well for them.

As he gets older, he can go in a “sleep sack” which gives him comfort and also keeps him cozy all while being FAR safer than a blanket.

Yep. My daughter would only sleep if I was holding her or if she was swaddled. I was the only one who could get the swaddle tight enough. You guys talking about conditioning them are right though. She’s 14 and starting high school. She still wants me to tuck her in at night, knows I the one that can fix things, and falls asleep next to me on the couch on movie nights.