Baby Doll Who Can Sleep, Speak, Eating Ets.
For the first five months of my son's life, I was obsessed with sleep. Or, more specifically, my lack thereof.
I spent many middle-of-the-dark hours past the light of my iPhone, Googling all possible variations of that elusive phrase: "How to get a baby to sleep."
I crossed off endless afternoons every bit we tried to become on a "nap schedule," staring anxiously at the clock and then I could run into his room and soothe him in five-, x- and 15-infinitesimal increments.
I swaddled.
I super-swaddled.
I straightjacket-swaddled.
I bought magic sleep suits and slumber sacks and loveys and binkies. I stress-ate my way through piles of slumber books, leaving chocolate testify on domestic dog-eared pages.
So when I scrolled past a story ane sleepless nighttime in my Facebook feed about a doll that claimed to assist babies sleep better, I clicked.
"Ridiculously high bids for 'sleep doll' prove how damn drastic parents are for sleep," the headline screamed. "This doll might make your infant sleep, only it might come at a cost."
Turns out slumber-deprived parents around the earth had heard about this magical product, the Lulla doll, and bought them all. The website sold out so fast (twice) that parents rushed to eBay to snatch them up at crazy mark-ups — reportedly paying as much as $665 for the doll that normally costs $71.
Lookout man: Test-driving the Lulla sleep doll
Expect, I get information technology. Catch me at the right bleary-eyed moment and I too might have been willing to pay anything for a few more zzzzzs. Only was this really the magic bullet? I had to know.
And so I wrote to Iceland (where the doll was invented), and the adjacent matter I knew, the Lulla doll was on its way to me from Rejkyavik, via its incredibly kind and soothing-voiced creator, Eyrún Eggertsdóttir. (If you want to feel relaxed, merely listen to her explain the process behind the doll in this video.)
When my Lulla doll arrived, it was much smaller (and cuter) than I'd imagined. It'due south soft and plush with cartoony closed optics, and a little voice box sewn in the back, that — when squeezed — plays a recording of a woman'southward heartbeat and animate sounds for upward to eight hours.
I'm not the first person to compare it to Darth Vader. If y'all hear the noises coming from a darkened room, it can be a little terrifying.
The doll's heartbeat and breathing noises are supposed to mimic a caregiver'southward, to soothe a baby when a caregiver is non able to exist there. "My goal was to brand a production for babies that imitated closeness when their parents had to be abroad," Eggertsdóttir told TODAY. "Inquiry tells united states that closeness helps babies regulate their own heartbeat and breathing and this in turn results in better quality sleep, more overall wellbeing as well as added prophylactic."
She and her team, who have worked for three years to make the doll a reality, solicited lots of feedback from babies and parents forth the way, and their site is crowded with positive reviews.
My infant, now 8 months onetime, sleeps pretty well through the night, only all the same has the occasional wake-up in the wee hours, and is a total nightmare when it comes to taking naps.
I tested it out on him over several days and in several different environments (you lot can watch what happened here) — for an afternoon nap in his crib at habitation, for a nap in his carseat, overnight in his crib, in his Pack 'n Play when nosotros went away for the weekend. You get the idea.
I as well offered it to him, without the breathing noises turned on, just as a toy to play with (read: chew) when we went out to swallow or were just hanging effectually the apartment. For those worried virtually loose items in the crib, the doll does have a footling Velcro strap that you can utilize to loop effectually crib confined then information technology's not a suffocation hazard.
It seemed to work sometimes — he did eventually fall comatose, and a few times, those naps seemed to last much longer than they normally practice (two hours vs. 40 minutes) — but when he woke up in the eye of the night crying, for example, the doll seemed to practise nix to at-home him down.
On average, I'd say information technology took him about the same fourth dimension (and fussing) to fall comatose with the doll as it does without the doll, so I'm non sure that it had whatsoever impact.
"It should piece of work for most kids but the effects will differ from child to child," Eggertsdóttir told me. "Biologically, these sounds should have a stabling and calming result, and most of the feedback we receive from users is that information technology improves the well-existence of their child to some extent."
In other words, don't expect a magic pull a fast one on — the benefits could be much more subtle.
"We do not promise any specific result — for example, that your baby will definitely sleep through the night," she said. "There can be a lot of reasons why babies and children have trouble sleeping — colic, anxiety, illness — and sleeping cycles of infants are different from grown-ups...Not everybody is the same so the doll will not exist able to piece of work for everybody or for every problem. But I would advise that people give it a gamble, try it in different settings and accept reasonable expectations."
So for those drastic for babe sleep aids, I wouldn't rule it out — who knows, information technology just might be the trick for your fiddling one! And luckily, you don't have to pay an arm and a leg to effort it anymore. The company has ramped up production to meet the need and Lulla will be shipping out again in October.
As Eggertsdóttir puts it, "There are heady times ahead!"
You tin follow TODAY editor Meena Hart Duerson and her slumber adventures on Twitter here.
Source: https://www.today.com/parents/does-lulla-doll-help-babies-sleep-better-mom-tries-viral-t101794
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