I have both a Hatch Rest and a Hatch Restore and they’ve both been essential to my baby’s nighttime routine. We keep the Hatch Rest in our bedroom and the Hatch Restore in my son’s room.
I love that I can control both the lighting and sound of the devices on my phone with Hatch’s easy-to-use app. My husband typically gives the baby a bottle before bedtime in our room, while he’s doing that I turn on the “rain sounds” that we’ve been using as white noise for our little one. However, the most helpful feature on both devices is the ability to adjust how bright the light is. We still get up a handful of times in the middle of the night to soothe Noah (he’s not a greaaaat sleeper) so it’s been invaluable to be able to raise the light a bit when doing so but then be able to quickly lower it once he’s has settled back into sleep. It’s also not a harsh light and has a bunch of different color options so it’s been easy enough to find a brightness that suits our needs.
The Hatch Rest is ideal for parents as it also has a sound monitor option. For the hour or so Noah (my baby) used to sleep in a bassinet in our room before my husband and I got into bed, I was able to listen in and hear if he was fussing, crying, etc from downstairs. We were also able to set it to a specific program so the light/sounds turn off on their own in the morning (one less thing for us to think about).
Promising review: “My favorite feature about this product is that I can control everything through my phone. If I’m in a different room in the house, but I want the nursery to play birds chirping for the baby, I can do that through my phone. The audio baby monitor works very well and the speaker quality through the Hatch is terrific. I also love that it’s travel-friendly, so we use this baby monitor whenever we’re on the go. Lastly, the night-light is perfect when I’m changing the baby’s diaper at 3 a.m. or during a middle-of-the-night feeding.” —Chelsea
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