Everyday life with a baby is busy, but with a Sleepytroll you can get more done. Ruth Rabbe shared her story about how she uses the baby rocker.
Ruth Rabbe had her first baby in her mid-40s, and she didn’t expect her son to become a big brother, but he later did.
While Ruth was pregnant with her first child, she read everything she came across about babies and baby products and was well informed. As she puts it herself, “I went all-in”, and Facebook and Google “bombed” her with ads for baby products, just as she wanted. She found the ads useful, and she didn’t hesitate to complain if a product didn’t deliver as promised.
One of the products she came across was a “thingy” that could rock a stroller. She liked the idea but was unsure whether it was something she would actually need. Sleepytroll was the most expensive brand on the market, so she picked a cheaper one. When that baby rocker arrived, she wasn’t satisfied: she found it too weak, and it barely moved the stroller.
In one of the Facebook groups for mothers, she asked what experience other mums had with baby rockers, and they recommended Sleepytroll because it was more powerful and rechargeable.
Ruth’s son was not a “complicated” child, as she describes him, but he liked movement while sleeping. He slept well when she went for walks but woke up as soon as the stroller stopped. When she got back from her walk, she turned on the baby rocker so he could keep sleeping as if he were still out walking.
That way he got the sleep he needed, and she got a break to put on a wash or enjoy a cup of coffee.
“I have always worked out, and I kept exercising after giving birth,” she explains. At the gym, they could bring the strollers inside, and her son was usually asleep when they arrived. She put the Sleepytroll on to rock the stroller, and for the first half hour she exercised on her own. When he woke up, he joined the workout together with her and the other mums and babies.
One piece of advice parents of newborns are often given is “sleep when the baby sleeps”. It’s good advice, but hard to follow if your child needs a rocking stroller to sleep. “Sleepytroll did the job for me, and he got the sleep he needed,” says Ruth.
For his cot, she bought springs to put under the legs of the bed, but rocking the cot by hand was hard work. She wished the baby rocker could easily be fitted to a cot too. Today it can: see how the Sleepytroll Baby Rocker works on a cot.
Whenever she can, she buys second-hand. “It’s wise not to be snobby,” she says. Like many others, she has felt the pressure for everything to be new, expensive and elegant for the little one, but in the end, “Does the muslin for spit-up really need to be organic and expensive?”
