Hatch Rest Baby Sound Machine, Night Light (White, Rest 1st Gen)

HIGHLY RECOMMEND - My son is 6, he has always been a very light sleeper and we've been through MANY white noise machines over the years. I was actually very happy with our current one, however, he had an "ok to wake" clock as well as a star projector all on his nightstand and it was just too crowded. I paid about the same for our current white noise machine, so the price wasn't a big factor for me. PROS: -lights: color and brightness both fully customizable. -volume: many kids white noise machines aren't loud enough for us (we live on a very busy corner, lots of honking and fire station nearby) Not the case with this one, at max volume, its WAY too loud. -loops: as he's gotten older, my son has complained of being able to hear loops or patterns in the sounds (usually with varied sounds like rain or babbling brook). Neither the wind or TV sounds have discernable loops -quality: the sound quality and speaker are both great. We've had some that had flat/tinny sounds before. -ease of use: easy to download and connect to the app -programmability: this has been by FAR the greatest feature. I've set up 4 different auto on/off programs for SLEEP, WAKE, WEEKDAY, WEEKEND. Orange light w/sound =stay in bed and comes on at 7:30 pm Sun-Thurs and 8:00 pm Fri-Sat. Green light (with same sound and volume so as to not accidentally wake him up if he's slept in) = ok to get out of bed comes on at 7:00 am M-F and 7:30 am Sat-Sun. I have the green light & sounds turn off at 7:30 on school days and 8 am on weekends. CON: -the ONLY hiccup we've had was the very first morning after programming. I had to manually turn it on the night before (since I set it at 7:45 pm which was after the weekday "stay in bed" timer should have started) so the next morning it was still in "manual" mode and the green light never turned on. I noticed around 7:10 am when I heard him singing to himself, so I used the app to manually adjust the light color to green and heard him "ooh and ahh" in amazement. Since that first night, we haven't had any trouble with the timers. I've also turned on the toddler lock so he can't put it back into manual mode. BONUS: -less bedtime struggle: I'm no longer to the one enforcing bedtime - when the Hatch comes on, he knows it is time to go to bed and there's no arguing for or whining to the Hatch for "just 5 more minutes". We just got an Echo Dot and I saw there was an Alexa integration. I read up on the features and really wish this had been around when he was an infant. You can log diapers, sleep times, nursing times, pumping times and all kinds of other cool stuff. Even so, as our all in 1 night light, white noise, wake timer - this thing has been amazing!

We have only been using this for a couple days now and so far it has been a great little machine! When I first found this, I wanted to get it for my son, especially since it has the OK to wake feature that we wanted to try to get him used to, but he wasn't interested in giving up his moon night light to his baby sister. When I put it in my daughter's room and set it to start playing music during our bed time routine, he was instantly curious and decided he would give up his moon night light after all. It will take some getting used to and playing around with the programs to make it work for us more consistently, but so far it seems to be working without a problem. The sounds are much richer than we are used to with our old sound machine and the light has nearly infinite choices in color. A bit of constructive criticism - My son is used to the night light turning off after a period of time, but his white noise machine is on all night. This has posed a slight problem with figuring out how to maintain this routine with the Hatch Baby night light. So far, I have only been able to make it work by setting two programs, one starting at the same time the other one ends. It actually works really well with the exception of the volume setting. It would be really helpful to have the volume (and brightness) slider give a number like a percentage as you move it along the bar to give an idea of where it is. Even hash marks on the bars would probably be helpful here too. It's been tough trying to keep the volume the same between the two programs, and even if I adjust the volume on the fly it would help to know where I put it so I could go back to that setting again, or adjust the next program to that same setting. Along the same lines, the other thing that might be nice is the ability to save colors, so if you choose a custom color, or two, being able to go back to that color for other programs would be a nice feature. And, pro tip - don't try to adjust the ring presets when you have it set up and running for your kid. As you adjust them, the light and sound actually change dynamically with your actions in the app. Whether this is good, bad or indifferent is probably going to vary by user but I thought I would mention it since my kid just got all freaked out as I was trying to tweak the ring settings in preparation for going into his room to remind him it was time for sleeping. (Pretty much backfired!)

I had an interesting experience with this hatch speaker..I want to start off by saying that the product absolutely did show up as advertised, nothing was broken and everything was alright (this review is just about my unexpected experience). So I got this speaker for my baby sister when she was 15 and half months old, her sleep regressions were getting really bad which made it hard to deal with her fussing all the time because she didn't want to sleep or kept waking up (and we were tired and exhausted too). I read that this speaker was good for sleep regressions and sleep training, and saw it had good reviews, and I was feeling hopeful..But when I bought it, I got the most unexpected reaction from my sister.......she was scared of the speaker😂. She used it at first , cause I turned it on when she was sleeping, but after she woke up from her nap, everytime after we would bring her in to sleep her for the night, she would keep watching the speaker, and would wake up from her sleep, crying. Even in her sleep she knew when we switched from using the phone to the speaker. To be honest the first night was dreadful, she woke up crying not to long after we left the room, and after that we weren't even able to leave the room. She wouldn't let my mom put her down, cause she would keep waking up and crying. This led to us having to stop everything we were doing and just go to bed, which made my mom upset cause she's only able to do her business at night. My mom kept telling me to return it, but I was so set on getting my sis to get used to it (cause I thought it could help her), the next day, I would let her hold the speaker and let her push the buttons, show her how the music turns on from the phone (she's a fast learner). I would show and explain that this speaker and her fisher price speaker are the same but just looks different (her fisher price speaker plays out for like less than 30 minutes so you can see why I bought a different one). And She would look and observe, and she would even start playing with the speaker. I Also put the speaker in a place she can't see it when we were ready to sleep her.. but night fell (second night), we were able to leave the room to eat...after midnight though, she would keep waking up again and again after my mom kept trying to put her down, which led to her not actually falling asleep till after midnight. So my mom still didn't get to do her work. I felt began to feel guilty that I got something that made my baby sister feel scared and that prevented my mom from doing her work. It's not only night we used it, even during her day naps, she would wake up and look at where the speaker is , even if I hid it , she would look where it used to be. And Even wake up feeling scared / upset from her day naps. Ultimately, I just returned the speaker (kind of crazy how you have to pay for the return considering the price for the speaker itself🙄) and just went back to using YouTube lullaby and just pushed through the difficulty of her sleep regression, I made this review late due to being busy. But her sleep regressions definitely eased up from how bad they used to be. So if your baby is scared easily and all ready has trouble sleeping, maybe don't get the speaker?😅 I don't know my situation is pretty unique compared to the other reviews..but other than this crazy experience, the product is over all alright. My mom thought the product was very nice at first, and really liked the lights. The lights look good during the day, but aren't bright enough to be used as a night light, it still is very dark even at its brightest. It has a wide range of sounds with 3 lullabies,, I think one or two of the lullabies creeped my sister out (I think one of the more slower ones it was) there was one that sounded similar to her youtube lullaby, but she definitely noticed the difference when her yt lullaby was playing and the speaker.

We got this six months ago, and for six months I have been wishing that this was better in so many ways. It has such potential, but is so disappointing, especially considering the price (and we got ours on sale). The two features we cared about were the light and the noise, and both are disappointing. The noise is thin and tinny-sounding, no matter which one we choose. We also have a Rohm and even though it has just three white noise settings, each of them is better than the eight offered by the Hatch. The noises on the Hatch are not soothing or pleasant to listen to, for parents or for kids. The light is also frustrating. The degrees of difference of brightness between the full 100% setting, and the lowest 1% setting, are not that great. The fullest light is not bright enough to change a diaper by or read a book, but the dimmest setting is too bright to sleep by (especially if you want your baby or toddler to get used to sleeping in a fully dark room, as we do). Lastly, the app itself is glitchy. I made the mistake of updating it a month or so ago and since then it has been driving me nuts. There is a delay of 5-8 seconds between when you toggle the volume or brightness button, and when the device responds. About half the time the device doesn't respond at all and the button resets itself back to the prior setting. This is infuriating in the middle of the night when you have a crying child and are also fighting with the app on the phone trying to get it to respond. In short, I regret this purchase and wish I could return it. Its positives are few and have not outweighed the negatives.

I wanna say the brightest setting of the light is not bright enough. I was looking for a little bit brighter end of the maximum brightness but this machine is not giving that. Yet this is the only minus in it. I am still giving it 5 stars because I got another machine much cheaper and well the light in it is not bright either but also not warm as this hatch has. The warms of the light is already a sleep mood setting. But then I played with the settings and chose the favorites when I got it and OMG I had to drink another cafinated tea to stay somewhat awake. I do have a 2 week old so being sleep deprived is not something out of the ordinary but the night before I got more help from husband so I was okay right up until I played with lights and sounds of this machine. I was so drowsy that not even melatonin was ever getting me this bad before. That night I had this machine on, I slept also super deep. I couldn't get out of bed until I turned of the machine and had some time without the sound. The wind is my absolute favorite sound there. The control through the phone is an amazing function compared to other machine I tried. The other one manual is clicking loud when you cycle through the sounds or colors... this is a silent one to operate. Worth the money. Sleep is amazing!

Drowns out some usual noise like doors opening/shutting or low level alarms for parents to get up to go to work. It’s actually helped my little associate sleep times and helps with the afternoon nap time. We actually bought a second one because she naps in her own room during the day, in a crib but sleeps in our room in a bedside basinet during the night.. and we figured once she’s fully in her room we’ll keep the one in our room going for us. We noticed we slept better ourselves with this going. Love the timer- have it set up so it’s on at her bedtime and off in the morning on its own. The one in her room I can just tap the top ring when I put her down for a nap and it remembers my last choice and will cycle through previous settings if I tap again. Love this product, we bring it with us if baby sleeps at grandparents house.

Overall happy with this product but consider that it is on the expensive side it is pretty hard to figure out all the features. I've only had it for a few weeks so I'm still figuring it out but so far it's a bit confusing with setting up preset settings/ scheduled which automatically turn on, that part is great; however the trouble for me has been with the fact that you can override the preset settings manually if you touch the hatch rest itself and when that happens it overrides the preset and I can't figure out how to get back to the preset....Anyway I'm trying to resolve as it's pointless setting something that my child can just override with tapping the device. As well, when it is setup with preset settings, if you are not near the device you cannot make changes to it manually, at least as far as I can figure out, which is difficult if you have babysitter without the app and it gets turned off or many other circumstances where you may not have access to the app or your phone... So it's been a bit confusing to figure out, at least for me...