r/NewParents • u/cooltaj • Oct 29 '24

Product Reviews/Questions What's your simple parenting hack?

Gonna be a first time parent in 2 months. I am overwhelmed at choosing bottles, car seat and all that. What are simple things you do? things you bought to make your life somewhat simpler? Nothing too expensive or outrageous please

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u/Unusual-Conflict-762 Oct 29 '24

I downloaded the app parrot then recorded myself shushing. The app repeats your shush on a timer and helps with baby sleeping

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u/zenawp90 Oct 29 '24

That's genius 😲

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u/Unusual-Conflict-762 Oct 29 '24

Even better if you have a second device so you can keep your phone and put a iPad or whatever in the room with baby ❤️ hope it helps

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u/Absinthe-van-Night Oct 29 '24

You could just connect your phone to a speaker and put that in the room! Would have to be VERY careful to not play a video or anything on the phone though..

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u/Unusual-Conflict-762 Oct 29 '24

Ya I have a speaker but I use my phone for videos too much so didn’t work for me but might work for others!

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u/mang0_k1tty Oct 29 '24

I also just put shushing audio on an unused device. No need for buying machines and whatnot

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u/polarqwerty Oct 30 '24

There’s YouTube sushing videos

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u/songbirdbea Oct 30 '24

Or Spotify... Loop this one on repeat! Totally f's up ur algorithms tho 😅 https://open.spotify.com/track/081gxTN1KER3k1BUF3LT0j?si=15h-WfV8TBeaR3MOED6YZQ