I’m not going to lie. I love doing the “Worth it Wednesday” posts because I just can’t help being the know-it-all mom who wants to register FOR my friends when they get pregnant so that they get the best of the best of everything. I guess I come by that honestly considering how one of my older sisters offered to “edit” my registry before the birth of my daughter. Okay, she might not have used the word “edit,” but I know that’s what she meant! Honestly, some of us moms just do a crazy amount of research, so you should listen to us. 🙂

So far, I’ve given you a few things you absolutely cannot live without (in my humble opinion), such as Hyland’s Teething Tablets, the My Brest Friend, and a good ol’ snot sucker. Well today I present to you the adorable, precious, great idea Cloud B Gentle Giraffe . . . Which I think totally SUCKS!

So the idea with the Gentle Giraffe (or it’s counterpart, the Sleep Sheep) is that it is a cuddly toy that doubles as a white noise/sleep sound machine. As Dr. Weissbluth advises in Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child, which Allison reviewed here, babies should sleep in a darkened room with a white noise machine for the most restorative, uninterrupted sleep. Sounds great to me! My husband and I have to have the fan on every night for the sound, so I get it.

I received both the Gentle Giraffe and the Sleep Sheep before V was born, and we (okay, I) was super excited about it. I would keep the sheep by the car seat, and the giraffe by her bassinet. Cute and functional! Well there is one thing they don’t tell you on the box (or maybe they do, and it’s just in small letters, or you’re too naive to know what it actually means for you . . .). Well I will spell it out: the sheep and the giraffe have TIMERS, and do not run continuously throughout the night. Which means that if you and your hubby are sitting in the living room,or maybe even (gasp!) have friends over for a couple of beers, you are going to have to go running in there every half an hour to “refresh Giraffe” as it was known in our house . . . i.e. hit the little button to keep the noise going. And God help you if you actually do have it turned up loudly and don’t get back in time, and it shuts off, startling your little angel . . . Well, let’s just say we had another phrase in our house, an exasperated cry of “f***ing Giraffe!” Not pretty, but neither is an angry baby whose noise machine just woke her up.

In the end, we picked up a $20 white noise machine from Bed, Bath and Beyond, and leave the stuffed animals to be stuffed animals. Which V loves! Just not worth it as $22 stuffed animals.

What do you think?? Are we being too hard on the Gentle Giraffe? 

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