... A present for her ? Forget that ! More like a present for me !
WHO MAKES IT ?
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The Lullaby Player is made by an American company called The First Years Inc. They make several products for babies and toddlers including monitors, play and discovery toys, and feeding and bathing equipment.
IS ... Read review
Plays 4 soothing sounds With a soft-glow crib light Plays-: heartbeat, rainfall, waves and ... more
three lullaby tunes. Has a 15 minute timer button. Voice activation button Crib light can be switched on or off Has a child resistant cover panel. Crib rail atta...
Postage & Packaging: £3.95 Availability: Next day delivery by lunch time....
Advantages: Good features, easy to use, compact Disadvantages: A few more tunes would improve it
...drifting off to sleep to the soothing and comforting sound of your mother's heartbeat. Or perhaps you would prefer to hear waves crashing onto the shoreline, or the relaxing sound of rain splashing onto a window. Wouldn't it be wonderful ? And babies would quite like it too !
That is what you get with Nature's Lullaby Player. In fact, you get much more as well, and all this for the reasonable price of around £ 19.95. Of course, I didn't ... .../>
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The Lullaby Player is made by an American company called The First Years Inc. They make several products for babies and toddlers including monitors, play and discovery toys, and feeding and bathing equipment.
IS IT EASY TO SET UP ?
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Yes, it is. To install the batteries is simple. You have to remove the light cover to get access to the battery compartment. To ... more
Imagine drifting off to sleep to the soothing and comforting sound of your mother's heartbeat. Or perhaps you would prefer to hear waves crashing onto the shoreline, or the relaxing sound of rain splashing onto a window. Wouldn't it be wonderful ? And babies would quite like it too !
That is what you get with Nature's Lullaby Player. In fact, you get much more as well, and all this for the reasonable price of around £ 19.95. Of course, I didn't pay that for it. My youngest daughter received it as a present for her first Christmas from her auntie. A present for her ? Forget that ! More like a present for me !
WHO MAKES IT ? =============
The Lullaby Player is made by an American company called The First Years Inc. They make several products for babies and toddlers including monitors, play and discovery toys, and feeding and bathing equipment.
IS IT EASY TO SET UP ? ===================
Yes, it is. To install the batteries is simple. You have to remove the light cover to get access to the battery compartment. To do this, you press a tab located on the inside and then pull the light cover down and off. Then, you unscrew the battery compartment with a Phillips screwdriver, put the new batteries in, and screw it back on. In other words, it is impossible for little hands to get hold of the batteries. Always a good thing with my little angel ! Finally, put the light cover back on. Bingo ! You're ready to rumble !
There are 2 ways to use the Player. You can either attach it to a cot rail, or stand it on a flat surface. Ours is always on the side of the cot. There are 2 spring-lock clips that you press in, and then you simply slide it onto the rail and let go of the clips. This makes it impossible for the child to pull it off, and therefore you don't wake up and find teeth marks all over it as a result of a teething toddler trying to bite chunks out of it. On the same subject, if you decide to stand it on a flat surface, make sure that it is well out of reach of their little hands as I am certain some toddlers have extendable arms !
FEATURES OF THE LULLABY PLAYER ===============================
There are only 8 buttons and a volume control dial on the Player. All of these can be hidden by a sliding cover so that those much-mentioned fingers can't press any of them. The buttons are the 4 different sounds, on-off, timer, voice activation, and cot light.
1. Cot light ----------------- This is fixed so that it faces the inside of the cot so that the baby / toddler can actually see it ! Once the light is switched on, it stays on for 10 minutes, and then goes off automatically. There isn't the option of keeping the light on all night, and so if you require this, the Lullaby Player isn't for you.
The light isn't a bright neon type illumination. It is a warm gentle glow giving just enough light to give the child comfort. It is all that my daughter needs to reassure her. Of course, there is the option of switching the light off before the 10 minutes is up, which helps save some battery life.
2. The Sounds ---------------------- All of the sounds are very realistic and each has its own button . The default sound is the ocean waves and this always plays when you first switch on. Close your eyes and imagine you are lying on a moonlit beach on a tropical island in the middle of the ocean. Of course, I would have a cold glass of wine nearby, but a baby would drift off to sleep happily.
The heartbeat is supposed to remind the baby of the time when he / she was in the womb and the time when it felt most safe and protected. I don't know if this would work for every baby and it didn't for mine.
The medley of 3 lullabies is the one I used most, and it always worked. " Rock A Bye Baby ", " Hush Little Baby ", and " Have You Seen The Muffin Man ? " are the 3 tunes that play. I listened to them so often that I sometimes went to sleep myself humming them ! Perhaps a few more tunes would have been welcome here.
My personal favourite is the rainfall sound. It reminds me of being in a caravan or conservatory when it is raining, and gives you ( and the baby ! ) a cosy feeling.
The rainfall and the medley are the sounds that worked best for my baby, but of course, every child is different.
3. Timer ------------- This was used almost every night in our house. If you press this button, the Lullaby Player switches itself off after 15 minutes. It was ideal for when my baby was almost in a deep sleep, but not quite there. The 15 minutes always did the trick.
4. Voice activation -------------------------- Once this button is pressed, whatever is playing will stop. If or when your baby starts to cry, it will begin to play the last sound you selected within 5 seconds. After 15 minutes, the Lullaby Player will switch itself off again. This will keep happening during the night until either your baby settles down to sleep properly, or you press the button again. Whichever comes first !
For this voice activation to work, you must make sure that the microphone is not covered by anything. When we first attached it to the cot, this was partly covered by a rail and so we had to move it slightly. After that, it worked well.
CONCLUSION ============
The Nature's Lullaby Player comes with a manufacturer's one year warranty, which we never needed to use. Battery life depends on how much you use it. We always used rechargeables anyway, so it didn't really matter about battery life.
I would say that the Player is worth £ 19.95, especially since it worked for us. It is compact and sturdy, and has very useful features which are easy to use. I would have no hesitation in trying out the other products in The First Years range, after having experienced this one. I suppose that says it all really.
You can buy it from most good toy and nursery stockists, and online at www.thebabycatalogue.com.
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