Non-hokum Baby Toy
Sunday, May 18th, 2008...8:52 pm
The Prince Lionheart Slumber Bear sounds like the typical over-hyped nonsense targeted at new parents:
The Original Slumber Bear contains the ONLY actual intra-uterine, recorded womb sound to help lull your Baby to sleep in minutes!
The fact is, it actually works. Norah was very restless any time we put her down in the cot and would only sleep in our arms, which wasn’t very convenient. With the bear playing these intra-uterine sounds we can put her down with a soother after a feed and have a reasonable expectation that she’ll fall asleep. It doesn’t work miracles though: if she’s cross or upset then it won’t put her to sleep. The bear was mentioned to us by another satisfied parent whose twins were successfully being lulled to sleep.
The only downside is that Norah has to cry really loudly to activate the bear (by which time we’ve usually woken up) but if the bear is positioned near her, she’ll usually whack it and activate the motion sensors. A pretty cool little invention really.
3 Comments
May 19th, 2008 at 9:28 pm
It was the best bit of baby equipment we got as well. My only complaint is that the sound doesn’t fade out, it just cuts out (on ours at the least, don’t know if they’ve improved it?), that and that they don’t make a huge adult sized version – it used to send me to sleep as well. I wish I could kick the missus out of bed and replace her with a giant slumber bear. It’s be ace.
May 19th, 2008 at 9:30 pm
Ah crap. Excuse the typos. My missus was being as nosey as usual. I was typing quickly.
P.S. I hope Norah gets better soon!
May 20th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
I was saying the same thing to Hilary. Norah was very upset on Sunday night with the itchy rash. The bear wasn’t quite up to that task but it was certainly putting me to sleep. We were saying the same thing about the sound — it should definitely fade out.
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