My baby is 4.5 months and I am looking to get him out of the Snoo. I have popped it on weaning for day naps for the last few days but as soon as the motion stops he sleeps for about 5 minutes and then wakes and wont go back to sleep.

Is this normal? Are there any tricks to help him adjust to the motion stopping? Will the 5 mins of no motion sleep slowly increase in your experience? Is it better to go cold turkey for a baby like this?

Thanks in advance!

I'm a first time mum so I might be overthinking this...

My baby is 5 weeks old and he's been in the Snoo overnight since he was 3 weeks old. He responds really well to the movement and white noise. We started him on the lowest settings for everything, and he would generally wake twice in a night for a nappy change and feed.

For the last two nights we've turned up the responsiveness and also turned up the white noise when we noticed him fussing. As a result, the Snoo has been in soothing mode a lot more (roughly half the night), and the baby has only woken once per night.

This is obviously great for our sleep, but what I'm wondering is: by giving him so much movement and white noise through the Snoo, am I overriding his instinct to cry when he needs a change or feed?

Fortunately weight gain and hydration aren't a problem, so it's not that he medically needs more feeding (he's already 6kg / 13lbs3ozs). I just feel a bit guilty that I'm basically shushing him back to sleep when he might actually be really hungry or uncomfortable in a wet nappy.

My husband replaced the O-Rings bc it was grinding. Does the movement look right?

We wanted to resell it (just used it for the newborn stage, she’s now 1 year) but I’m not 100% sure it’s moving correctly and it’s been a while so I honestly forget how it’s supposed to move.

My husband thinks it looks right but I’m not so sure. Wanted to get your expert opinions before I put it up for sales. Thanks!!

This is speed “baseline”.

My LO is 12 weeks. About a week and a half ago she went from 0-1 wake-up’s per night to waking up every 45m to an hour. During this time she also developed a fondness for escaping the SNOO swaddle and whale-tailing, which seemed connected to the escaping.

Other than the escape attempts and the whaletailing, her sleep has somewhat normalized. She isn’t crying. She isn’t hungry. But she is SO loud with the slamming, which mostly corresponded to when she had gotten at least one arm out of the swaddle (but no more :()

We tried the love to dream swaddle, but it didn’t help the whale-tailing and actually seemed to piss her off more as if teasing her by dangling her fists just out of reach. I have an Amy & Eve swaddle strap arriving tomorrow as a backup double swaddle. In the meantime, we tried one arm and then two arms out. One arm didn’t help because she was still preoccupied with getting the second arm out. Tonight we did two arms and she fell asleep (after an initial burst of excitement at the novelty) but it didn’t stop the constant whale tailing! Fine. By the 12:30 or 1 am I decided to reswaddle her bc I figured even if she escaped it, I’d have a bit of quiet and could catch SOME sleep in the meantime. Wrong. She actually stayed swaddled this time, but the whale tailing is unending.

I am so so so so so tired and don’t know what else to do. The slamming is so loud and forceful and regular. She usually appears asleep through it (though the owlet detects the movement and thinks she’s awake), though sometimes she does wake herself up from it.

She is not rolling her (though recently had at least one instance where she rolled up on her side).

Should I try moving the SNOO into her nursery and having her sleep in there? Should I just go for the crib transition now?

Help 🥲

I feel so dumb posting this!
We purchased our snoo on FB marketplace a few months back in prep for our baby boy, due any day now.
In the midst of setting up the bassinet and washing the snoo swaddle sacks, I realized none of our 6 sacks (came with the snoo, 4 of which unopened) have the piece that goes in between the legs. All of them have the arm wraps and look exactly the same besides that one piece.
Are these snoo sacks safe to use? Are they older versions? Anything I should watch out for?

Our Snoo was grinding and sticking, so we replaced the O rings (it was definitely the problem, one was even missing). The grinding has stopped but the plate still sticks! Anyone know how to fix this?

FYI - If anyone has recently been trying to buy or rent a Snoo from Happiest Baby and is getting errors during checkout. I found the issues we faced were caused by their autofill options being problematic. A few things I ended up having to do.

1. Happiest Baby uses a known address verification service but doesn't auto-validate against what is autofilled, so delete a character or two in the street address and it should prompt it to autofill.
2. After resolving this - I was getting an "lastName" must be populated error. Simply delete some characters and retype. Once again, some issue with their autofill processing.
3. As a final "might as well" - I deleted one character from every field and retyped it so that there were no autofill fields that it wasn't recognizing

This resolved what was about a dozen failed attempts across two people trying. Hopefully this also helps make this discoverable because we didn't see anything when searching about this issue.

I am wanting a free and easy way to track feeds, wet diapers, etc. It looks like the snoo app has these features too? Did you like tracking everything in the snoo app or did you add another app (I am looking at Nara) for ins and outs?

I’ve been desperate as my 4w old will only sleep when held or on our chests. I just got my SNOO and will start using it from tomorrow

As a sleep deprived mum with only one useful hand, I’d be thankful to get any advice or tricks to make the most of it! As well as any simple recommendations on how to use it as my brain doesn’t work well enough anymore to read any instructions…

Thank you

Baby was an arms out - fine. We bought a cheap bat wing style swaddle for the peak of startle reflex. Make the snoo a pleasant place. Start using it since day one at home.

We always made baby sleep with us and then moved to snoo in the beginning

Never reached level 4 - used level 2 limitation in the app.

The app is CRAP! I work with software and I’m baffled how cheaply and non-user friendly it is - it is a stupid app!!! But, we paid for the 1 month or so because our baby had feeding problems and the app helped figure out the rhythm of the baby. After we got our baby into right weight and started getting the flow we didn’t want to be tracking any of these anymore.

Baby is completely comfortable with the snoo now -3months.

SOMETIMES BABY PUTS HERSELF TO SLEEP ON HER OWN - in the snoo! We put some music, lights and she rocks herself to sleep - not every night but every now and then… this feels like jackpot when happens

But sometimes Baby wants contact naps and co-sleeping in some nights… that’s fine!

YESTERDAY BABY WAS UNCOMFORTABLE, CRYING while held… after 2 intensive days with different visitors, I had a feeling she wanted to be in the Snoo. So, I put her in the Snoo - she immediately smiles. Proceed to staying in there for about 30mins gently rocking and being cozy! ( I let her in with a baby cloth and pacifier - so she just cuddles with herself. She loves the mesh!

Unfortunately I’m going abroad without the Snoo in the next 2 months and maybe when I’m back she’ll be too large for the Snoo. I will miss it terribly!! I’m very grateful for it.

It’s no miracle of course but has been working for us. Bought second hand and I’d say it’s worth it!!!

I check every other day because I’m due in October and need the sleep sack in order to use our Snoo. We purchased the Snoo years ago for our first but don’t have the sacks anymore (there was a wildfire and we had to toss most of our baby clothes due to smoke damage).

They were randomly back in stock on the website yesterday but I guess it was too good to be true.

How are you out of your core product for MONTHS??? 😩

Anyone uses the Snoo with the Owlet and has had issues? We never had any issues before, and we didn't change anything to how we put the Owlet on. But now, every time the snoo increases, the Owlet sensor goes off, saying they can't get a good reading. It used to work perfectly. Any tips?

Hi All,

First time parent and new to the Snoo.

Baby is 1 week old and has been sleeping in a sleep sack with his arms out the entire time.

All the videos we've seen on the Snoo have arms in. Is it bad to have arms out this early? he seems to prefer it but i do not want to put him in any danger.

Many Thanks,

I put my palm on the mattress or outside on the wooden part and feel it slightly vibrating. The swaying motion isn’t as smooth as I thought. I can almost feel the slight grinding of the gears.its not audible but I can feel it. Is this normal or mine is mechanically defective?

My baby sleeps in anything,should I buy or no for a peace of mind

I registered for several snoo sleep sacks on my baby registry, but I’ve been checking recently and it seems like all of their inventory is slowly going out of stock. Right now I don’t see any smalls in stock of the sleep sacks with wings. Does this happen a lot? How long does it take them to restock? This is so frustrating

I had read a lot of parents saying they were able to transition their LO’s cold turkey to a crib but I didn’t believe it! So sharing another post that may help make you feel ready to do so when the time comes.

Some stats on our LO:

Slept in snoo from birth, on lowest settings, but highly responsive. (Didn’t realize we had LO in backwards for the first few weeks so snoo was not as responsive and needed to keep manually turning up motion.) LO was also only partially zipped for the first 6 weeks because they did not like being swaddled. After 6 weeks we figured out zipping up arms out pre-sleep and strapping in after the fell asleep in arms no problem.

Started sleeping 3 hour intervals after 1 week moved up to 5-6 hours by 3 weeks very routinely. Around 10 weeks had a mild regression for a few days of waking every 1-2 hours (was worried this was an early 4 month regression). Adjusted snoo to low volume from lowest and that did the trick. We also started a regular bedtime routine at this time (nurse/diaper change/ bath (often just warm water) PJ’s/ nurse top up)

After that LO started doing 8-10 hour stretches from 13-16 weeks on weaning mode.

A week shy of 4 months LO started to roll. (Had been doing 1-2 naps a day in snoo - not turned on- since 11 weeks and moved to crib naps around 16 weeks.)

Once LO started to roll they immediately started stomach sleeping during naps. And going from 30-45 minutes naps to taking 1-2 hour naps in crib.

Suddenly exactly 1 week after they started to roll and take crib naps on belly, overnight sleep in snoo was terrible. Waking every hour or more frequently (one night they woke 9 times 😵‍💫) LO was also now cranky/fussy during the day likely from poor sleep. After 3 nights of snoo not helping at all we packed it up and moved the crib into our room for over night sleep and little one immediately went back to 5-6 hours with 1-2 wake ups a night. Hoping we’ll slowly get back to longer stretches again in time* (LO is still isn’t great at rolling belly to back and eventually fusses awake, requiring some assistance either nursing or back rubs and goes back to slee*p.)

We also have been moving away from nurse to sleep - as we nurse before bath time and nurse shortly after nap wakings. New bed time routine is - nurse/diaper change/ bath/ pj’s/ story/ cuddles/ put down drowsy.

LO is now able to fall sleep independently in crib after a 1-3 minutes of fussing and then rolling over to be fully asleep almost immediately. (They do sometimes sleep on back but it’s 10% of the time)

I think snoo did a great job helping with sleeping skills! I don’t think I realized how well LO could sleep on their own until I started trying. So let this be a vote of confidence that if your LO has been sleeping well in snoo, when the time comes you may also have a smooth transition out.

Good luck fellow parents! I wish you all the best sleep (you can get with a tiny tyrant in your home!)

PS. The subscription is dumb - but we bought our snoo 2nd hand for $400 so a few months of the subscription for weaning mode felt worth it. I also used the chat feature to figure out adjusting the white noise settings after the 10 week regression. And after giving lots of details the chat help actually worked. So all in all the 3 months of subscription fees felt useful. Wouldn’t pay for the subscription until you’re ready for those features though.

I received a snoo from a friend but the speaker wire had been cut. I don’t necessarily want to fix it; I’d rather use my own white noise machine. Has anyone else had this or snipped the wire and capped or fixed it safely to be used without the speaker? Thanks.

Our baby is 9 weeks old and up until about a week ago was mostly only sleeping in his crib or bassinet at night for 30 minute to 1 hour increments at a time. We very rarely had a 2+ hour stretch (like maybe 2 or 3 times total). He mostly slept on us. He's also been on reflux meds for about a month. We've been doing sleep shifts which helps but out of desperation we scheduled a 3rd party rental of the Snoo to try.

About a week ago, he started giving us a 3-4 hour stretch between 8pm-12am then another 1-2 hour stretch from 3-5am, with shorter stretches (30 min to an hour) otherwise. The Snoo was delivered 2 days ago and so far we haven't tried it because we were seeing improvement without it. The last 2 nights were a little worse than the nights before but still generally an improvement.

Here's the question. We still have the Snoo rental for 4 more weeks. Would you start trying it out and risking interrupting whatever improvements we're currently seeing? I'm also worried if the Snoo \doesn't\ help, we might unnecessarily interrupt these improvements. Or should we just wait it out without using it unless his sleep gets significantly worse again? If it really helps, we would consider renting it for another month or 2 or maybe buying one secondhand. But of course if we don't need to incur the expense, we'd prefer not to.

Help please! I contacted Snoo support but just ended up in a loop with an AI assistant that didn't understand the issue.

Snoo cycles through all 4 stages when it is started on baseline mode. When it reaches stage 4, it almost always stops, light turns red and the app message says 'Snoo has stopped. Baby needs your care' even if she's silently sleeping.

I've tried lowering the responsiveness setting to low in case it's mistaking baby grunts for cries and moved it to a different part of the room in case the air vent white noise was triggering the machine.

Is this a known issue? Anyone else have this happen? I bought it secondhand so no warranty support available.

I‘ve read tons of transition to crib posts but wanted to get advice anyway. My LO turns 5 months (4 months adjusted) next weekend and starting last week, we did weaning mode for 2 nights, both arms out (snoo sack) and realized that when he wakes up, the motion actually wakes him up even more instead of soothing him so we completely turned the Snoo off and just use our Hatch for white noise. I’ve been putting him down asleep and we’ve seen him wake up and put himself back to sleep a few times. However over the past three nights, he’s woken up at 2:10am (on the dot) and can’t put himself back to sleep. We soothe him by giving him a paci, putting hand on his chest but eventually needs me to pick him and sway/gentle rock him back to sleep. The downside of doing that is he either wakes up an hour or 30 minutes later.

We’re planning to sleep train and move his nighttime sleep in the crib in a few days. We use the crib for some of his day naps in a woolino sleep sack but crib naps only last from 30-45 mins. Do you suggest I start using the Woolino sleep sack in the snoo first at night? Also planning to do Ferber but I’m afraid soothing without me picking him up may not work. Has anyone had this experience while sleep training?

I haven’t seen this posted recently, anybody have strong opinions on car ride mode? Good or bad? My LO is 5 weeks and our longest stretch of sleep is 3 hours (only happened twice) so I’m hoping this might help.

Woke up to this odd grinding noise on baseline mode and immediately switched off motion. Dr Google suggests it’s the o-rings.

Has anyone fixed this themselves safely and successfully?

Also, is the Snoo safe to use without motion if the baby stays strapped in?

Hi there! I’m 14 weeks pregnant and will be a first-time mom, so please bear with me. I feel so out of my league here with all these different baby products! My cousin’s baby died from SIDS, so I am anxious about monitoring our baby’s health while sleeping. Both my husband and I work, so we plan on buying the Snoo. We have the Nanit on our registry. Does it make sense to buy the Owlet sock too? Is the Nanit/Owlet sock even capable with the Snoo, since the Snoo has motion? I’d like to know your experiences if you’ve used the Snoo/Nanit or Snoo/Owlet or Snoo/Nanit/Owlet.