https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:19:40 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-sheep-yay-or-nay/page/2#post-292431 Wed, 12 Sep 2012 16:28:52 +0000 loveisstrange 292431@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I love ours, but im in the camp that likes that it turns off. It helps her to sleep, but shes not dependent on it to stay asleep. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-sheep-yay-or-nay/page/2#post-292424 Wed, 12 Sep 2012 16:21:44 +0000 PrincessBaby 292424@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Crap! We have one and it's so cute- I didn't want it to have all these nays!!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-sheep-yay-or-nay/page/2#post-292286 Wed, 12 Sep 2012 15:01:10 +0000 bebe 292286@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@CVBEE: She's 10 weeks old. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-sheep-yay-or-nay/page/2#post-291785 Wed, 12 Sep 2012 10:15:12 +0000 LivsMama 291785@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nay. Liv would wake up as soon as the sound shut off, so we downloaded WhiteNoise (an app) on to my old iphone and use that on a sound dock in her room as a white noise machine </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-sheep-yay-or-nay/page/2#post-291775 Wed, 12 Sep 2012 09:57:38 +0000 cvbee 291775@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@bebe: cool. how old is your baby? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-sheep-yay-or-nay/page/2#post-291711 Wed, 12 Sep 2012 09:15:49 +0000 meredithNYC 291711@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@bebe: We have the same one and I love it. Plus, it's inexpensive, which is always a good thing when you're shelling out tons of money on baby gear.</p> <p>We also have the travel sleep sheep for taking along in the stroller or car seat and I do love it. LO cuddles it and it helps relax her. But I agree with others that relying on the standard sleep sheep for nighttime and naps at home is probably not great because of the 45 minute deal. We live in a small apartment, so we really need the white noise to go on continuously if we want to get things done around the house without waking her. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-sheep-yay-or-nay/page/2#post-291607 Wed, 12 Sep 2012 08:00:59 +0000 bebe 291607@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nay. LO was never interested in the Sleep Sheep, it just didn't work for us. We purchased the Homedics Lullaby, which turned out to be a lifesaver! It's a white noise machine and projector, LO loves it, she's 10 weeks old. It plays 3 lullabys and 3 nature sounds (heartbeat, rainforest and ocean), and the projector has 3 different disks. You can play both the sound and projector together or separately. The machine plugs in and you can let it play continuously or set the timer. At bedtime, we turn off the lights, turn on the machine and lay LO in her bassinet, she loves staring at the images and then goes to sleep on her own. In the past I would have to stand and rock her to sleep, it was so tiring! I highly recommend this! <a href="http://www.amazon.com/HoMedics-SS-3000-Soundspa-Lullaby-White/dp/B000QTSW64/ref=sr_1_1?s=baby-products&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1347454228&#038;sr=1-1&#038;keywords=homedics" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/HoMedics-SS-3000-Soundspa-Lullaby-White/dp/B000QTSW64/ref=sr_1_1?s=baby-products&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1347454228&#038;sr=1-1&#038;keywords=homedics</a> </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-sheep-yay-or-nay#post-291448 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 23:14:20 +0000 erinpye 291448@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nay. We just have a fan and white noise going all night in her room. It works great! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-sheep-yay-or-nay#post-291402 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 21:14:02 +0000 pelikila 291402@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@winniebee: waves for daytime naps and the heartbeat for nighttime sleep. we have done so from the beginning and it seemed to help my son not resist naps so much since he knew it was a "short sleep" when he heard the waves. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-sheep-yay-or-nay#post-291395 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 21:05:29 +0000 littlek 291395@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We use the sleep giraffe and it seems to be working for us. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-sheep-yay-or-nay#post-291376 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 20:25:03 +0000 Mrs. Stroller 291376@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Get a normal adult white noise machine. The sheep turns off at 45min and without fail my son wakes up.</p> <p>I built a big library at 4m and read to my baby when he wouldn't nap. Time is really the only thing that got the naps back so embracing the time and doing other relax time activities was my strategy. Now he's too squirmy for reading and sometimes I miss the 4 month regression! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-sheep-yay-or-nay#post-291374 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 20:22:59 +0000 winniebee 291374@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@pelikila: interesting that you use different sounds for day and night. We use waves at night....what do you use? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-sheep-yay-or-nay#post-291372 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 20:21:53 +0000 autumnlove 291372@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nay. Never used it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-sheep-yay-or-nay#post-291371 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 20:21:46 +0000 winniebee 291371@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs.M57: LOl! I just blast static am radio if DS is fussing in the car and needs a nap ; ) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-sheep-yay-or-nay#post-291368 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 20:20:51 +0000 winniebee 291368@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I rescind my earlier response. It has been chilly out so no fan. Back to using sleep sheep ocean noises at night - start it during bedtime routine and hit it again on way out of room and after night feeding. Not sure if it's doing anything but we are using it. </p> <p>@birdofafeather: we used it a lot in the early months! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-sheep-yay-or-nay#post-291082 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 14:13:47 +0000 Mrs.M57 291082@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Haha love the comments about the whale noises! My dd actually only calms to the whale it's the only noise on the sleep sheep that we use. DD falls asleep to it in the car, and it will occasionally follow us into the house for carseat naps. But it is creepy, my Dogs go crazy over the whale noises! One of them Growls at it haha we use a white noise machine and a humidifier for bedtime. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-sheep-yay-or-nay#post-291072 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 14:01:32 +0000 birdofafeather 291072@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>and guess who just took the sheep off her registry! this girl. :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-sheep-yay-or-nay#post-290764 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 10:29:15 +0000 Clementine 290764@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nay, it times out so what's the point. Invest in a good white noise machine instead. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-sheep-yay-or-nay#post-290346 Mon, 10 Sep 2012 23:01:39 +0000 skibobrown 290346@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our daughter has slept with the sleep sheep every night since she was born. (We use the ocean noise.) We put it on for while she's falling asleep, and then we turn it back on in the night when she wakes up and cries for her binkie. It works great for us, and I actually like that it turns off and doesn't run all night. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-sheep-yay-or-nay#post-290331 Mon, 10 Sep 2012 22:20:58 +0000 sulli301 290331@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't have one, but my friend has something similar &amp; loves it! I prefer my regular noise machine </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-sheep-yay-or-nay#post-289186 Mon, 10 Sep 2012 08:16:24 +0000 pelikila 289186@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yay for us. I agree with some of the PPs, I like that it turns off after 45 minutes because I don't want my son to rely on it exclusively. We use it more of as a cue to go to sleep (one sound for night and a different one for naps) and enough of a sound barrier for while we are still awake and potentially making noise but it isn't a crutch for him to need it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-sheep-yay-or-nay#post-289158 Mon, 10 Sep 2012 07:59:05 +0000 Andrea 289158@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@banana: haha, too funny! I don't understand any of the sounds either except for ocean so that is what we used. It didn't occur to me to take the sound box out either until my friend mentioned it to me. Duh! We've just taken the box when we travel, too. So easy, LOL. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-sheep-yay-or-nay#post-289156 Mon, 10 Sep 2012 07:58:52 +0000 winniebee 289156@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>nay.....I think the fan is a better white noise machine.... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-sheep-yay-or-nay#post-289155 Mon, 10 Sep 2012 07:56:02 +0000 T.H.O.U. 289155@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>YAY - we have both the sheep and the giraffe (one used to be at daycare). We like the sounds on the giraffe more. No dead people growning! (@banana:) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-sheep-yay-or-nay#post-289019 Mon, 10 Sep 2012 00:41:52 +0000 pinkcupcake 289019@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'd say YAY -- we've been using ours every single day since LO was born and now whenever she hears the familiar ocean sound, she'll automatically start to look drowsy -- but it's mostly a YAY for a white noise machine, not the sleep sheep specifically. I personally think anything would work :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-sheep-yay-or-nay#post-288970 Sun, 09 Sep 2012 22:37:50 +0000 Freckles 288970@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nay!! I hate that it only goes for 45 minutes. I ended up downloading a rainfall track onto my ipod and used my sound dock instead. It fills the entire room (some may think it's too loud) and blocks out any noise. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-sheep-yay-or-nay#post-288960 Sun, 09 Sep 2012 22:26:53 +0000 MsMini 288960@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I mentioned it on our May babies thread, but I opted out of the sleep sheep because of the timer. I am really happy with the one we got on well.ca for under $30. It is goes plenty loud to drown out the sound of construction, kids playing, or our dog barking, and you can either plug it in or use batteries. It is small enough to take along for overnight trips as well. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-sheep-yay-or-nay#post-288954 Sun, 09 Sep 2012 22:21:06 +0000 Mrs. Bee 288954@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>nay. had it and hated that it turned off. we have a marpac sound machine (2 of them for the kids) and it works great. in olive's room we also play white noise on an iphone. charlie is really loud and often wakes her up otherwise since their rooms are right next to each other. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-sheep-yay-or-nay#post-288935 Sun, 09 Sep 2012 21:38:14 +0000 Baby Boy Mom 288935@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>For us it was a Yay. The timer is perfect, just enough time to fall asleep, and I like that he sleeps in silence. Plus it's cute. :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-sheep-yay-or-nay#post-288931 Sun, 09 Sep 2012 21:29:00 +0000 luckypenny 288931@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I like the timer feature! It's just enough to get her in a deep sleep and she isn't dependent on it to stay asleep. I say YAY </p>