I wish they'd make one of these things for grown-ups,” my husband and I would often quip after laying our newborn son down in the Snoo, a fandangle, motorised bassinet replete with white noise and, most impressively, a cot base that continuously sways – left, right, left, right. The idea? A parent's pregnant belly is a cosy, humming, constantly moving home for the first nine months of life, so why not mimic the soothing sensations of the womb says the brand's co-founder Dr Harvey Karp, outside of it?
That's also the premise behind a host of sleep assists that could
