I was thinking about getting a sound machine for my little one. Something with soothing nature sounds to help her sleep by blocking out noise, but not too obnoxious to keep her awake. At the moment I use an air purifier as white noise, but the sound is starting to annoy me. Do any of you ladies have any suggestions? I don't want to spend buckets o' money on it, but I do want reasonable quality.
wow! i guess anything and everything to help the babies get sleep (thus allowing us to get sleep). i knew all i had to do was ask a few sleep deprived moms about sound machines to get good advice on which ones to buy. thank you all for the suggestions. i will definately go and check some of these out.
HI , I have a sound machine that I do not use:) I bought it when i went to my country for my 3 months old but guess what he never ever used. He is now 6 months old but the sound machine is in the drawer waiting alone. If you want I can sell it to you. pet/smoke free home. send me an email to ____@____.com.
We like the Homedics machine. It has a volume control and timer. We got it a couple of years ago at Target for less than $15.
I bought the conair infant sound machine at Target for $20 and it is perfectly fine. We use the white noise setting. I am so used to it now I have to have the baby monitor up loud enough so I can also hear the white noise :)
http://www.target.com/gp/detail.html/sr=1-2/qid=116727944...
I highly recommend the Sound Sleeper at Babies R Us. It's $19.99. I just bought 2 of them a month ago and love them for our kids and home day care kids. The best thing about it is that it can plug in. I used to have one that just used batteries and it would go through them obnoxiously fast, since the purpose was to play it throughout the entire naps to block out noise. The sound sleeper is great with all kinds of nature sounds and womb sounds, etc. I'm pretty sure you could also combine sounds, though we just use the ocean waves all the time. There is a volume control and there is a button I think that allows you to play it and then it will turn off on it's own, like a sleep button, although we don't use that either. We just play it for the entire nap. I really like it. What we would do before was play the baby einstein lullaby cd, and that was good too, but the sound machine makes it so you don't have to listen to it on the monitor. Hope that helps. :)
I used a machine by homedics that I got at Walgreens. It was around $25 and had about 5 or 6 different settings. It worked great. That was about 2 years ago, but I'm sure they still probably carry something similar.
Good luck,
S.
we use the sound machine from bed, bath and beyond. it's the only one they carry there and i think it's 19.95. but chances are you have a 20% off coupon since i get them once a week from them! it has 5 or 6 sounds (heartbeat, waterfall, ocean, rain and one other) with volume control. we've been using it since my son was 8 months old and take it with us wherever we go where he'll be sleeping.
Hi D., I have an 8 month old and i HIGHLY recommend the Soothing vibratiosn crib soother made by first years. My son was colicky and had reflux when he was younger and this thing was about the only thing that would keep him from crying sometimes. It has several different settings--heartbeat, stream, nature sounds (birds tweeting--that one's a little annoying actually), and jsut white noise, and then you can also choose to turn on vibrations (the control module attaches ot the rail of your crib, and then there's a flat egg-shaped thingie that's separate that goes under the crib mattress and vibrates gently--it's very soothing for them! The link to buy this from walmart for $39.99 is http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?dest=9999999997...
I bought mine for that same price at babies r us. ANd THEN i got another one as a gift that i just never returned (BUSY!!!). So I actually have two. If you're interested the second one has only been used once (took it on a trip with us--it's portable, runs on batteries, so it helps for sleeping in the car too!), and I'll sell it to you for $20 (half what i paid--if you're itnerested e-mail me at hte address below). But regardless of whether you get it from me or from walkmart or babies r us, it is the best and saved my sanity during those colicky months! good luck :-) L
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I'm in the same boat. Our kids have humidifiers as white noise and it's very grating. I just purchased a sound machine from Brookstone that has multiple sounds, volume control and it has a selector light that acts as a nightlight. Even though it's kinda pricey, it's worth it. Several other ones I looked at didn't have continuous play, but this one does. http://www.brookstone.com/store/product.asp?product_code=...
we just bought nature CDs at target (9.99 for a two pack). the rainforest/waterfall pair is our favorite, but the thunderstorm/gentle water one is good too. we live in an open top loft, and we actually just play it all night long. it blocks her noises out so we can get some sleep. we either use a CD player, or just let iTunes run all 4 CDs on a loop....
I have seen some nice soothing sound machines at Wal-mart. They have 5 different nature sounds, very nice. Around #20.00. You could also try some music cd's with relaxing sounds and put it on low. They have several at Target and you can listen to them before you buy them to see if you like them. Good Luck
I have the homedics sound machine from Target also. I love it. Be careful of anything attached to the crib. Our 17 month still sleeps with a sound machine - on the floor, away from his reach.
Good luck.
dear D.,
We have a cd player that we used that you could just push a button and it would play nonstop. We were given a lot of different cds and the best set was one called Natural Dreams There are about 9 or 12 cds and as long as you don't play them real loud they won't keep her awake. To this day she can't sleep with out something. If you want you could have my set if you are by Harvard. My daughter is two and listens to different ones now.
B.
