Baby ShusherPortable Sound Machine - White Noise Sound Machine, Baby Soother for Sleeping, Newborn Essentials for Crib, Battery Operated Hush, Travel Friendly - 1 Count

Don’t have kids but bought this for a friend as a baby shower present because I thought it seemed useful if it worked and funny. My friend said it was the best gift they received because it was so useful and works great and called it a ‘life saver’. Bought for another friend expecting later and received the same feedback. Very happy with the purchase and will definitely buy again as my go to gift for baby showers.

This calms my baby so much, it’s amazing! Sound quality is good, battery life is great. It’s portable so you can bring it on vacation or in the car. Every parent needs this! Easy twist for volume and timer comes with tether to attach it.

I bought for my granddaughter, however I use every night lol.

love this. makes my grandson fall asleep fast

Hard to say if my baby really cares for it. It soothes her inconsistently, but that is not about the product—that’s just how my baby is. I like that there’s multiple volumes and 2 different lengths of time to choose from. I think the highest volume setting is insane and unnecessary, haha.

This is my go to baby gift. Everyone says it it wonderful and really works

This thing was SUCH a disappointment. They took a great idea and just made a completely terrible product. For $10 I'd be fine with this, but for $35, it's going back.The pros:I does make a "shhhhhh" sound, which is great.And now the cons (you might want to freshen your quarantine cocktail):- It makes a shushing sound, but it will only do it for 15 or 30 minutes. If you want to shush longer, like all night for instance, you will have to keep getting up to cycle the power. Maybe they knew a constant-on would burn through batteries too fast (more on that in a min). The fact that you can't just set it to ON and leave it running is the primary reason I have decided this device is useless to me and needs to go back.- It is a highly directional speaker, meaning you can hear it pretty well if it's facing right at you, but it sounds very quiet if it's pointed away from you. But they designed it like a torpedo, so you can't stand it up with the speaker pointing at the baby's head. The speaker faces down if you stand it upright. The only flat surface is the one the speaker points at, so if you lay it on something next to the baby like a night stand, it might very well roll away. It will stay put just fine if you put it on a soft surface, like next to the baby's head in a crib, but that violates Safe Sleep protocol. A product design that incentivizes people to break Safe Sleep rules sounds like terrible design to me.- It's not super loud, so it has to be pretty close to the baby's head, depending on how loud you need the shushing. I bought this thing for the times when my baby is really pissed and I need pretty aggressive shushing, and it just doesn't cut it. The volume is fine for if baby is already calm and sleeping, but does nothing to soothe a baby that's already crying because it's not loud enough for him to hear over the noise he's already making.- Battery life. As others have said, buy lots of batteries. Why they didn't make this thing USB rechargeable like everything else is beyond me. At $35, it needs to have a rechargeable internal battery, like the $12 white noise machine we have.- Battery access: when the batteries die, first you'll think "didn't I just replace these?". Then you'll say "crap, it's 4AM, I have a screaming infant, and I have to go find some batteries AND a screwdriver". What fun! Some may say this is a safety consideration, but I challenge you to find an infant that needs a shusher that could possibly summon up the dexterity to get batteries out of a standard snap-on battery cover. My toddler could do it, but toddlers don't need this thing. When you put it back on, the battery cover lid is also the power switch, so don't screw it on too tight or you won't be able to turn it on.- Dead on arrival: this is a product that's designed to soothe unhappy babies. That means when a parent gets this, they're probably a little exhausted and frustrated. This is exactly the kind of product that needs to work when it arrives. I found a bunch of heavy grease (inexplicably inside of the battery compartment) covering the electrical contacts on the screw on cap, preventing it from turning on.I really, really wanted to like this thing. I was so excited to get it, and then so disappointed at how poorly this great idea was executed. What's worse, they basically have the market cornered - in a greenfield market, they could have made slight changes and actually had an excellent product. For $35, that's what they needed to do.But I cannot bring myself to spend that much money on a product that is so incredibly poorly and cheaply designed.

I am not going comment on whether "shushing" works to calm a baby down. You can easily test this out on your child for free by shushing, or trying the "Shusher" app for your smartphone. We've been shushing our daughter since birth, and we think this device just saves us some effort (and dry mouths). We actually still tend to shush ourselves with the Shusher (dual shushing!), but the Shusher takes over when we leave the room after she falls asleep.My complaints are with the product design. When you look at it, it is really cool and sleek. But that's the problem. I think too much effort was made making it look like the pinnacle of industrial design, and less was spent on real world testing with parents of newborns. I turn it on when I am soothing our baby and putting her down for her nap. I place it on the nightstand next to her bassinet so she can hear it while I hold her.The first problem that arises is that the dial large and slippery, and it can be difficult to select the shushing setting with one hand (I think I have normal guy hands) while you hold a squirming crying baby with the other. In the dark it is next to impossible to see the settings, so you just turn the dial one way and if the shusher turns on, you know you went in the right direction (but you don't know if you selected 15 or 30 minutes). If you hear nothing, then you know you turned it off, and you need to turn it one click to 15 minutes, and two clicks to 30 minutes.The second problem with the dial is that it makes a loud clicking sound with each setting. I like to have the shusher run for another 15 or 30 minutes after my daughter falls asleep. If your baby has just fallen asleep, the last thing you want is to make a loud clicking noise. It is amazing what disturbs a child.The next issue concerns the round design. It just rolls off any hard surface. We usually set it on our nightstand next to the bassinet, but we need to put something next to block it from rolling off.Finally, the battery compartment seems overly complicated. You need a Phillips screwdriver to remove the dial, and once this is off, you need to unsnap a plastic retaining clip. One of my pet peeves are battery compartments that are closed with screws, but I guess that is to prevent little ones from opening them and ingesting batteries. If you tighten the screw too much, the dial is hard to turn. Also, that plastic clip looks like it is begging to be lost or broken.I know it would not be as sexy as the current design, but I would have used three silent buttons to select the Off, 15 minutes, and 30 minutes settings (and even more... 60 minutes?). Also, I would have made a design that doesn't roll off hard surfaces. Having it turn on automatically when it hears a cry would be nice.Otherwise, the Shusher makes the sound it is supposed to and it sounds less tinny than through my iPhone. It is a bit expensive compared to other white noise devices out there. Munchkin makes a white noise device with music and a projector for a little more than half the price of the Shusher. But it is not portable (we use both at the same time).Edit: I had to return the Shusher because I could not longer easily turn the dial and it sounded like it was going to break. I bought a new one and so far it it is working well.