Snoo Smart Sleeper - a waste of money?

[bertiebadger]

I was just wondering if anyone here has used the Snoo Smart Sleeper with their baby? It looks utterly extortionate but I'm doing some overtime at the moment so could prioritise this if necessary. If so, how did you feel about it? It looks incredible but want to be sure before thinking about an investment like that! Thanks in advance.

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Article about it in case of interest!

Never heard of it but the article certainly sounds good... Until ds was 18 months he regularly slept in his pram in his bedroom at night as the only way we could get him to sleep was by rocking him or pushing him in the pram.. This may well have been a game changer

I think the app telling me how much sleep (or not!) Baby was getting each night would have tipped me over the edge.

I actually used to daydream about such a piece of kit when DS1 was baby - the self-rocking bit in particular - because he was such a terrible sleeper. I wouldn't bother with ds2 because his sleep is fine. So depends on how well your baby sleeps I guess! I'd also worry about how to transition to a normal cot or bed when the time came tbh.

@bertiebadger interested to find out if you went for this? I’m expecting in October and my sister who is in the states just told me about this. It sounds great except for the price tag of course!! We are planning to have more than one so trying to think of it divided by 2...or 3?!

I know in the US people often rent them, no idea if that is possible here but it would reduce the price!

I have been looking at this too, she is 14 weeks old now so not point however if I could go back in time I would buy in a heartbeat. You could sell it on eBay after and get half your money back too!

@prettypeonies I haven't bought it, no. It seemed an enormous amount of money and I would like to see what my baby is like first. I did join the "snoo mama" Facebook group to see what people thought and it seemed it was good but obviously not a miracle workers. It's 30% off over Father's Day so maybe worth getting it now if you're considering it?

The trouble is, there's always a chance your baby will hate it. Also it looks quite small - even if it works and they sleep well when they're tiny, what happens when you move them to a regular cot and it doesn't rock and shush them to sleep?

My friend had a jiggly rocker, and if I were having another baby I'd definitely get one of them. But it's only about £100, not £1000 😲