The Snoo promises more sleep, but the problems families face are too big for furniture to fix Sleep deprivation is such a rite of passage for American parenthood that ?How are you sleeping"? is the most socially acceptable way to greet the arrival of a new baby. Most parents will reply with a nervous laugh and an anecdote about something stupid they did in the throes of infant-induced insomnia. ?And after I found the bottle in the closet, I finally found my phone?I had put it in the fridge!?
What they probably won?t share is the story about the time they endangered their newborn while pushed to the brink of exhaustion. For me, it was waking up on my living room couch, startled to find my 2-week-old baby barely cradled in one of my arms. When my daughter was born, she immediately started sleeping in four-hour increments that grew longer and more predictable each day. My son, born two years later, didn?t sleep as soundly. When he woke to eat, it was harder to get him back to sleep, especially in the middle of the night. That night, he had finally dozed off after I fed him. But I was scared to transition him back to his tiny bassinet in our bedroom for fear of waking him again. While sitting there, debating my options, I had essentially blacked out.
About a month later, when I was still spending up to three hours in the middle of the night trying to feed and soothe my son back to sleep, I scrolled past one of the first reviews of the Snoo, a $1,300 bed for infants ...