Reddit reviews Baby Einstein Sea Dreams Soother

Try twice a week. My boyfriend and I have a little one, and if he doesn't work overtime on the weekend, we each get one day to sleep in, then 30 min of wake up time before taking the kiddo. He also takes night shift one night during the week - ours is Wednesday night, as I drive kiddo to his aunts house Thursdays and I hate driving tired, hehe. After we did sleep training (he was about 6 months when we started that) we kept with the routine, but I'll give up my nights if my boyfriend is working overtime since kiddo usually sleeps through the night now anyway. It took us about three weeks of sleep training, and it was the HARDEST thing of my life, but I have to say, kiddo sleeps GREAT, I sleep pretty well, and he has had less stomach problems (gassy baby, hehe) and gets over being sick faster since he's been sleeping through the night. Since we've gotten him sleep trained, we've been able to set him a schedule, and we can definitely tell an attitude difference when he doesn't follow his schedule. If that is something you wanted to do, might wanna start this before your husband goes to school, as the first few nights will be long and loud. Baby isn't in pain, isn't scared, just isn't happy because this isn't what they are used to, but once they get used to it.. Well, if my kiddo isn't quite ready for sleep at bed time, he plays with his quiet toys (stuffed bear and stuffed turtle), turns on the music box we have strapped to his crib (he learned early how to turn it on and off himself, and it gets quieter and turns off after about 30 min) because he knows we will be there if needs us but he won't be allowed out of bed to play anyway so may as well play in bed and fall asleep. We also put a spill proof sippy cup in bed half full of water, so he can get a drink if he needs one, and often he'll wake up, find his cup, take a drink and fall back asleep. He never gets bottles or snacks in bed, just water. Sry, that was a lot of info, but I wanted to share all we did in case some part of it works for you! I know every kiddo is different, so I've always thought it's good to hear it all, choose what I WANT to work, then go down the list till we find what DOES work for kiddo, haha! Good luck, and know, you're not alone! That's about the part where I had a bit of a mental break, boyfriend had to stay home and take care of kiddo while I just slept all day. That's when we decided it was time to sleep train - kiddo was ready, all we needed was for me to be tired enough to be willing to let him cry it out. My poor boyfriend, he had to be strong for crying baby AND crying mommy, but he was awesome, and it's been awesome since!!! (this is the music box his grandparents got him. he realized he could turn on the music when he rolled over and bumped the orange starfish button with his noggin before we lowered his crib, and he loves that he has control over music and light when he goes to bed https://www.amazon.com/Baby-Einstein-Sea-Dreams-Soother/dp/B006YBHE6M/ref=lp_2582731011_1_2_a_it?srs=2582731011&ie=UTF8&qid=1503084232&sr=8-2)

edit - we didn't JUST let him cry it out, was a system of a few minutes before checking the first time, calming kiddo down, laying him back down, waiting a minute longer the next time, same routine, then a minute longer, etc. I feel like it came across as we just laid kiddo down and let him cry all night for three weeks, but that wasn't right, so wanted to clarify!

A few different ones to choose from.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B006YBHE6M/

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00NFETDR4/

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000NW5RWQ/

It's all trial and error but definitely try the ASMR blow dryer video. It worked best for us, better than any machine. My daughter also loved this and still does at 6 months:

https://www.amazon.com/Baby-Einstein-Sea-Dreams-Soother/dp/B006YBHE6M

Edited to add the link to the video
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1AK-eOx4RWc

They are referring to something like this. It's a common toy to put in a crib, although I can't speak to whether or not it's actually safe.

The newborn stage is so so hard, I am now at 7 months and I promise it gets easier! One thing that helped me was a crib soother, I'll add the link. I let her lie in her crib and watch the soother for about an hour and then she gets her bottle then sleep. That might help with the crying during the witching hour. Link: https://www.amazon.com/Baby-Einstein-Sea-Dreams-Soother/dp/B006YBHE6M