Sound Machine for Baby - Need Recomendations!

T., we have a homedics one(with 6 sounds) from Target, or Bed Bath & Beyond. I sleep with it and love it. It does have regular white noise, but it also has rain and waves which I prefer. It's under $20 and has an AC adapter. I believe it also has a battery option if you ever want that.

Go online and look at brookstone. They have 2 great machines.. I love them both for our 5 month old.

http://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/product.asp?order_num=-1&...

I just got that one , at bed bath and beyond online, $19.99 is the best price i found online! My little guy loves the light picture projection on the ceiling, and we use the rain sound continuously through the night. it also has a 15, 30, 45, 60 minute timer option. It runs on an AC adapter, so, no batteries!

Jessie

We found one at Babies R Us made by Dex Baby that works great. It has a lot of natural sounds and you can combine sounds as well (ocean and seagull for example). It has a timer option as well and can be used with batteries or AC adapter. It does not have voice activation though. I don't remember exactly but I think the price was around $20.

Before we found this, we found a waterfall track and loaded it onto our mp3 player which was attached to speakers next to the bassinet--that worked amazingly except the mp3 player couldn't make it through more than one night with one set of batteries!

find "for crying out loud" a dvd made by some moms - it has 8 tracks of household type white noises on it. we still use the vacuum one with our son, it works like a charm!

should be able to find it online somewhere! we took the one our son liked and made a copy of 8 tracks of just the vacuum onto a cd, so it plays over and over .

good luck!

Go to brookstone.com. We have 2 sound machines from here. The expensive one has more options but we only use one of them. My complaint with this is that the light on it is too bright and I have to cover it so it's not too bright in my girls' room. It also shuts off on its own at times and I have no idea why. There is a timer for it but we don't use that. I like the cheaper one better and we have this in our room. Love them! I think they were also recommended as the best by consumer reports.

Hi T. -

We have the Conair one. It's been a godsend with our kids! I love it. It plugs in and has 10 sounds or so. We primarily used the white noise but now that my daughter is older (3) she likes to choose what she listens to at night...crickets or rainforest (or "water birds" as she calls it) are her favorites. It's great for drowning out street noise, garbage trucks, trains and siblings! We also have a Homedics one that's ok. I don't like the sounds on it as well (there is no white noise). It does plug in also. One thing I do like about that one is that it has three different discs that project images on the ceiling which my son really likes. One other drawback is that it has timers on it 15 30 45 min etc but if you set it, it will turn it off completely. I wish I could set the projection to turn off after 30 minutes and have the sound stay on. We end up just sneaking in a turning the projection off after he's asleep. Both we got at Target for around $20. Good luck!

T. - I don't have any information re: a sound machine... I just wanted to tell you that i LOVED your description of yourself... "married to a man that is a much better father than I expected him to be". HOW REFRESHING!! So much better than all the "I married the most amazing man/husband/father.. blah blah blah !!! :) Good luck finding the right machine.

I moaned when my daughter received another stuffed animal for her baptism. And I have to admit, I kinda laughed thinking, "Wow, what am I ever going to do with this?" Her great aunt sent her a "sleep sheep" from red envelope. I hung it on her crib one night, and turned it on. It worked wonders! I know it this isn't voice activated... but it does hang on her crib for easy access and I can always find a large sheep in the middle of the night. It has four...? options - I think - whale noises, waves, rain, heartbeats. If anything, the rain static makes me go to bed easier when she's searching for a binkie in the middle of the night!

Good luck and congrats!

We have used the CD "Hush Little Baby Soothing Sounds for Sleep" since my daughter was a couple months old. It has a whole bunch of white noise tracks such as rainstorm, vacuum, and our favorite the car ride. We all absolutely love it. We decided to keep it on repeat on the one track we love the most, but you could keep it running all night long on all the tracks if you want. It is much better than a sound machine, in my opinion. I think we found it on Amazon.com.

Good luck!

A slightly different thought...I used to have some CDs that were just environmental sounds like "babbling brook" (my favorite!), gentle rain, sounds from the woods (crickets, frogs, etc), seaside/beach sounds. Sometimes Target and Walmart have them in their sections of their own CDs. Then you could just use a CD player with a "repeat" feature. Only downfall would be no voice activated feature. But just a different option

I think you might wanna try the PLAYSKOOL MADE FOR ME Digital Music Player. It comes pre programed with soothing sounds and songs, it has a timer and you can also get it to come on when baby makes a noise. I didn't use it for my 2 kids. My daughter got it when she was 3 just to have her own music because you can put your own songs on it. I think I will use it for our next baby for sure.

T.,
I don't know if you're interested in this option, but we've always just used a fan in our son's room. The white noise is perfect - just like a sound machine could create, without the waves crashing or crickets chirping. :) They're cheap, they plug in the wall, and they're very portable. They also drown out any noise coming from outside the room. To top it all off, studies have shown that the risk of SIDS is reduced for infants when a fan is placed in their room. Go figure!
Good luck,
Amy K

Hi T.-- if you're not stuck on a "sound machine" I highly recommend the Calming Electric Fan CD. It's a recording of a fan, without all the air blowing around (which my son didn't care for, although as an earlier poster said, it's been shown that an actual fan can reduce the risk of SIDS so that's obviously something important to consider). Anyway, the CD gradually fades out at the end of an hour, but fades back in and will go on all night if you set your player to Repeat. There is also a digital download option for your MP3 player for only $.99. We love it--we take our little CD player everywhere he'll be sleeping. Here's the link if you're interested: http://www.amazon.com/Calming-Electric-Fan-Sound-CD/dp/B0...

Walmart has a Conair Sound machine for like 16.99. I have purchased 2 of these (one for each child) and they work great. They are both battery/plug in. Look for them over by the blow dryer section. They have white noise/heart beat/and all the nature sounds too.
C. O.

I know this is late, but we use a white noise cd. We bring it with us everywhere. As soon as I turn on her noise, she knows we're getting ready for bed. I found the sound that she likes the best and set it to repeat. There is a brief 1-2 second delay as it repeats, but doesn't seem to bother her. We have used this on children numbers 3, 4 and 5 and will use it with number 6 coming in October. I sell them at www.happymomonline.com/pages/whitenoisecd.htm for $6, but they are available all over the place. Just google it.
God Bless!
H. :-)