There are various white noise options so you can choose the one you and your baby prefers! The speaker quality is really good, and it doesn’t hurt your ears when listening to it for long periods.It might wake baby with a sudden bright light!Ĭomparison Table The winner by leaps and bounds was the Little Weasel white noise machine! It really gets a 5-star rating in all aspects! Little Weasel I would be wary of accidentally touching it while in babies room at night. Gorgeous! Sound is relatively easy to use, the light function is a bit flaky. The brightness can be adjusted.īuilt-in rechargeable battery,can be plugged into a wall outlet for all night play or you can leave it on a timer ofĢ8 soothing sounds: Fan Sounds, White Noises, Natural Sounds. The light can be turned off or set to one of 8 colour options: white, red, soft amber, bright yellow, green, blue, purple, and pink. There are also 7 fan sound options and 7 white noisesĪdjustable Night Light Colours and Brightness. For babies and children, the machine also offers womb noises, a music box tone, and a lullaby tone. The device works whilst chargingĢ9 Soothing Sound Options: nature sounds, including settings for ocean waves, crickets, birds, rain, wind, thunder, a stream, and a campfire. It takes about 2.5 hours to charge and a fully charged battery can play sound for about 7 hours. – SD card slot (not sure who uses SD cards anymore) – 5 sound options: White noise, lullaby, ocean, rain, and clock ticking. (Takes 3AAA Batteries NOT Included)Ħ sound options: light music, raindrops, forest birds, thunderstorms, waves, white noise. USB cable (which needs to be plugged in to work) or Battery Powered. You wouldn’t want to spend all night listening to white noise sounding very hollow because of a cheap plastic speaker! Definitely, something to look at intensely as this is what will be making the sound. Speaker quality – The main attraction.Night Light – This is an added bonus and not really a necessity.Aesthetic – You’ve spent some dimes making your baby room look pretty, just to add an ugly looking machine to the shelf – we think not □ Also, can you easily travel with it?.Our winner was the only one with a range of white noise sounds. Sounds – We were not really looking at how many different sounds a machine can make as we are really only looking for White noise.It also saves battery if you know your little one is taking a 30 min nap- set the timer and it switches off. Timer – White noise should be played constantly during nap times and overnight, but if you live in a very quiet area you might want the white noise to switch off as soon as your baby is in deep sleep and the house is quiet.This keeps you from having to spend fortunes on replacing batteries and being stuck with a flat white noise unit. Battery Life – We especially looked for a unit that used a rechargeable battery and could work without being plugged in.So let’s get to the review… We looked at the following functions: Using white noise during this time, will help tremendously with your little one, helping them calm down, as well as creating a great sleep cue and familiarity. Forty newborns were studied and it was found that 80 percent were able to fall asleep after five minutes of hearing white noise. In a 1990 study published in the Archives of Disease in Childhood(Trusted Source) showed that white noise is indeed helpful. So when you live near a noisy road, have gardening services working all day or even just a toddler running around when your little one should be sleeping this will be pure gold! White noise is effective (at the right pitch) at blocking out external sounds. White noise has so many benefits! Newborn babies really enjoy white noise as it mimics the sound of the womb in which they were for 9 months! The sound of blood rushing through the placenta is a familiar sound and helps them calm down and fall asleep.įor older babies it soothes and boosts sleep, it makes good sleep better and once your little one links the sound of white noise with sleep they will move to a sleepy phase as soon as they start hearing it! It is a wonderful sleep cue. So we took to the South African “online streets” and sourced some machines to test and review and we finally get to share the results! But first off why on earth would you want to play white noise? The pro’s of playing white noise to your little one: During sleep coaching we ALWAYS suggest using a white noise machine, hence a frequent question we get asked: “What is the best white noise machine to use!?”.
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