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Crib mobile sans music

in: Sleep

Here’s how Mark gets his baby’s mobile to stop playing music: My wife and I recently bought a mobile for our 6 week-old daughter Astrid. It’s one of the battery-operated kinds that spins around and plays music. Astrid loves looking at it, and we’re glad we got it… except for one thing. The infernal ditties […]

Wool blanket as mattress pad and protector

in: Sleep

Wool blanket as mattress pad and protector

Tiffany suggests kinder, gentler mattress pad that can naturally handle nighttime accidents: Nighttime accidents + wet mattress = unhappy parent. You can buy a plastic mattress protector, but as my grandma once said: "What? You want him growing up sleeping like he's in a cheap motel?" She gave me this tip: put a wool blanket […]

Make your own white noise CD

in: Sleep

So sayeth John: If you want a CD of white noise [the crackly static sound which masks other noises to help babies sleep], burn your own. Download free cross-platform audio editing software (such as Audacity) and use the “Generate White Noise” function to record your own CD. And then he asked: Anyone know of a […]

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Asha Dornfest is an author, optimist, and mom of two. She started the Parent Hacks blog in 2005, and turned it into a book in 2016. More about Asha »

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