Baby Einstein Around the World Soother

We've been using this soother for a couple weeks now and our daughter seems to enjoy it. It definitely helps her to fall asleep. Even so, I'm giving it just 3 stars out of 5: minus 1 for the volume control, and minus 1 for the short rail straps. There are just two volume settings, both of which are kinda loud; they should have instead included a volume knob to allow you to adjust the sound more precisely. As for the rail straps, the geniuses at Baby Einstein apparently think everyone has a cheap crib with skinny rails. To the contrary, just about all the popular convertible cribs sold these days have thicker railings, too think for this soother. We had to mount it to our crib sideways just to get it to fit (see attached video).

This thing stinks! The straps are too short as previous poster said. It plays a chinese type music, which would be fine, but I figured it would be mozart or something baby einsteinish. Nope. No volume control. It is tooo loud. No option to mute the music. The remote needs something soft on the back so it doesn't bang on the door from the hanger. Returning this asap.

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Like most baby products, the volume controls stink.

The straps are way to short, and difficult to get off.

Ours we've had for about a year. We don't use it very often though. Maybe once a week or every other week.

The sound STOPPED WORKING. I'm an IT guy so I troubleshoot everything. It just doesn't play sound anymore. So this will be tossed into my e-waste bin because without the sound this product isn't worth keeping.

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This product is great. Our son loves it and falls asleep to it every time. However, there is one downside that made me give it 4 stars instead of 5 and that's the batteries. Do yourself a favor and just change the batteries every three weeks to save yourself trouble.

Imagine putting your 7 month old down for bed. You turn his screen on and leave the room. He starts crying, harder and harder. This isn't normal. You go in, the screens off, you turn it back on. He quiets down and you leave the room. Twenty seconds later he starts crying again. You go back in and the screen is off AGAIN. Dang, the batteries are dying and you have one of three options. 1) leave him and hope he can get himself to sleep without the screen 2) stand with the door cracked and hit the button on the remote every time it shuts off which is about every 15-20 seconds 3) take him out of bed, completely ruin your bedtime routine, take down the screen which is not an easy feat, find a screwdriver, undo the back to get the batteries out, hope to God you have C batteries because who has THOSE lying around the house, replace the batteries, screw the back on and remount it on the crib. Again, not easy. Put the baby back to bed and hope you didn't just screw everything up for the night.

Other than THAT it's great.

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Couldn't get a full nights sleep without this!!! It is perfect to help my children go to sleep. I love that it lasts 25 minutes, with sound softening and lights dimming as it gets closer to turning off. I recommend this to everyone that is trying to get their infant to sleep in the crib.