A child who found the technique of a parent helps the most

The previous spring, when I and my wife were preparing to welcome their first child, we started a list of baby gear – a rite of passing to the parents. The difference with our list, or so I thought, would only have the best accessories because it was a technical columnist with me with 20 years of experience test products.

After our child came in summer, I came to know that I was wrong.

It turns out that no one is the best baby gear, because the work done for other parents often did not work for us. Even though I had chosen a top-rated stroller, its wheels were inadequate for the pit-raped roads of our neighborhood. Electronic bottle hot It should be one by many redditors as it was very slow in heating milk for our vocal newborn listed. Snu, $ 1,700 robot Basinet with a creed, did nothing for our little gold.

Now sleepless nights of newborn stage, my wife and I get a well -relaxed, materials are injured with the child. In part, for a different approach with baby gear, was pivying for a different view in search of ways to analyze and solve our special problems as new parents.

My high and climb with baby tech cannot be experienced by every parent. But from my misconduct, from internet-controlled night lights to nani cam, the lesson that the nani came to the cam, should be universally implemented.

What do you know here.

Knowledge victory over fancy gizhmos including snoo

When our daughter was born for the first time, she spontaneously snooted in Basinet without any frill, which I bought from another parent through Facebook Marketplace. But when she turned around 3 months old, she started to blink loudly. It considered me a snow, a chic white basinet that speaks automatically and soaks the child making a furore.

Between parents, snoou is a polarization product that is not only due to its price ($ 1,700, or $ 160 per month for rent). Many of my friends call the device a godgent with the privilege of being the owner of one who saved them from the verge of madness. Others said that their child hates it. I read Book about soothing newborns The manufacturer of Snoo, written by Harvey Carp, so I wanted to give it a shot.

Fortunately, a friend lent me a snoo. I downloaded a fellow app and paid a $ 20 membership for access to some of its additional allowances, including a rocking motion that mimics rides in a car.

When we took him in, my child was initially surprised. But when she started crying and Basnet reacted by flowing and playing white noise, she also cried loudly. After a few weeks of experimentation, we returned to his old school’s Basinet.

A spokesperson of the Happiest Baby, a company behind the snoou, said that as soon as he was born, it was ideal for the products to introduce children as it simulates movements and feels a child’s experience inside a mother’s womb. However, the company advertises snoo as suitable for infants up to 6 months old, and my daughter fits this criteria.

The technology finally helped? E-books.

A late night, I downloaded $ 14 E-book by a pediatrician About infant psychology and sleep. I started to understand that my 3 -month -old child was fighting with sleep and when he needs a nap, how can he be guessed. We tried the methods of the book, and within a few weeks my child started regularly naping and started sleeping at night.

Knowledge is more powerful – and cheaper to access – compared to a fancy basinet.

The best technology helped the broken -minded parents

My wife and I found the most useful baby tech for being smartphone apps, which helped us to process information in our sleep -deprived situation. Free app HatlaberiFor parents, a tool to log the bottle feeding, diaper change and sleep duration for your children, my wife and me were important to communicate with each other with each other when we took the working changes when we took the working changes. It also provided useful data for our pediatrician.

Was also helpful Center for Free Mile Stone App of Disease Control and PreventionWhich shows a checklist of the expected developmental milestone of a child at each age, such as learning to roll in 6 months.

When she was about 7 months old, our daughter started crawling. We could not close our eyes anymore, so we moved to consume more parenting literature through a different medium: Audibook.

Single-task baby tech is unnecessary

There are many gadgets of popular baby tech that serve the same objective.

$ 60 Hatch restA nightlight that plays white noise is a product in the list of many parents to help children sleep. $ 250 Nanit ProA webcam that can alert you to a child’s movements and cry is another. So $ 50 Philips awent electronic bottle warmerWhich heat a bottle of milk reflected with a press press in a few minutes.

I received all those products as a gift through our registry. Although I loved to use them, I eventually realized that I could already have other products to complete equal functions.

• Nanit webcam There was an impressive set of facilities for monitoring our child, including a tool that automatically revealed at what time I had put her on the bed and what time she woke up. But to get a bird-i view for that feature, the camera was to be mounted against a wall against a wall. cradleWhich was unforgivable with the layout of our bedroom.

  We used nanit like any webcam to check for time from time to time on our child’s video feed in our cradle. This can also be done with any general-purpose security camera like $ 100 indoor Nest cam,

• Our baby pitch slept better in darkness, so Hatch rest night lightThe colors that can be replaced through the smartphone app proved to be unhealthy. (Maybe when our daughter grows up she will appreciate that light can be set on a timer, so it is illuminated when it is her waking time.) We only used the facility to play white noise. When we traveled, we used a tablet or smartphone to play white noise in the hotel room, making a dedicated sound machine fantastic.

• Philips Audant Bottle Warmer Initially it seemed useful, but every care for our daughter, including relatives, my wife, now, and now our grandmother, its use stopped. We feel freely that a metal coffee mug was partially sharp from warm water from the sink.

This is not to say that none of the above products will do a good job for any other parents. But the problem with the base of the best baby gear is that it requires any two babies to be the same, which is rarely.

It is best to begin to learn your child before starting a list, rather than its other way.