Sound machine or cd player/iPod in nursery?

Eriksgal · September 2011

What do you recommend?

Haven1 · September 2011

A fan on the floor. It's cheap, easily replaced if necessary, and able to go with them for the rest of their life.

flutepharm87 · September 2011

We have a sound machine in the nursery and it's great.

E&RMommy · September 2011

Neither. But that's our kids. They never needed anything.

MrsLnt · September 2011

Sound machine. $20 at BBB. We tried the iPod thing and it kept crashing all night long.

CV2011 · September 2011

I have the iPod on repeat with the ocean.

blondek8 · September 2011

We use a fan. More for air movement than anything. It gets humid upstairs (where their room is) during the summer despite a/c. We used a sound machine last year when they were little babies. I don't think it makes a difference for my guys though. They'll sleep with or without white noise.

lisa&andy · September 2011

We used a CD player and then just the radio. Traveling with a radio is alot easier than traveling with a fan.

LoveTravel · September 2011

We just used a CD player with just music.

The boys don't depend on it for their sleep though, thinking about it now I'm not sure when we'll stop putting music on at night, it's been such a habit from the get-go....it just plays the CD and then stops it doesnt' play all night long.

RiverSong0527 · September 2011

I always had a CD player in my son's nursery and made him CD's with all kinds of music to listen to when he napped. He's 3 now and still listens to music at bedtime. Listening to the music and singing with it always worked well for him as part of his routine to get him comfortable at bedtime and naptime. If you go with white noise, I second the PP's comment that a fan could work just as well - my husband and I both are addicted to the white noise of a fan to help us sleep.

erinruns · September 2011

In the beginning I had both and would often put on a lullaby CD at night. The problem was, it never did anything for their sleep so at a certain point I stopped with the music and just stuck with the ocean sounds. We also have a travel sound machine, and I have a sound machine app on my phone.

Babsie7 · September 2011

flutepharm87:
We have a sound machine in the nursery and it's great.

This. We have the First Years one.

pea-kay · September 2011

we had a sound machine, but then we had a window a/c unit installed in their room, and after that, it was moved to our room, and i couldn't sleep without it. Embarrassed

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