Why you'll love it: The Motorola Halo+ Over-the-Crib Baby Monitor & Soother uses soothing lights and sounds to lull your baby to sleep and shares data with caregivers that helps optimize a baby's rest.
The sleep deprivation parents experience is serious stuff, so any tool that can help mitigate the exhaustion is seriously excellent. The Motorola Halo+ Over-the-Crib Baby Monitor & Soother can help assuage parental fatigue both by helping a baby fall asleep on any given night and by training the parents how to help the child sleep every night.
The Halo+ helps soothe a little one to sleep using a series of softly glowing LED lights and a light show it can project onto the ceiling above the crib. Added to this are pre-recorded soothing sounds, lullabies, or recorded bedtime stories (yes, you can upload your own recording) that further relax your baby as she nods off.
As for the parents, the monitor features a Smart Baby Sleep Assistant program that over time creates a sleep diary and offers Sleep Insights and Sleep Tips, helping you see what's working in terms of bed time, soothing techniques, sleep duration, and more.
Oh, and also it's great monitor. The Halo+ can be clipped right onto the side of a crib for a birds-eye view of the whole sleep space, or it can be rested on a shelf like any standard monitor. It comes with a parent unit with a crisp 4.3-inch screen for monitoring when you're at home, but it can also be connected to a mobile device for remote viewing. Yes, it's a $300 unit, but if it helps them sleep ... it helps you sleep.
A newer model, the Motorola Halo+ Over-the-Crib Baby Monitor & Soother doesn't have many customer reviews yet, but the few it has received are all glowing. One mom calls it "the future of baby monitors, loving that it's "a baby camera, a white noise machine, [and] a night light and a soother" in one.
A TechHive write up called the Motorola Halo+ Over-the-Crib Baby Monitor & Soother a "pricey smart camera system" that's "the next best thing to having a night nanny."
Pros: Soothes baby with sound and light, tracks sleep patterns and offers tips to improve rest, works with parent unit and mobile devices
Cons: Very expensive, rather large
Buy a Motorola Halo+ Over-the-Crib Baby Monitor & Soother on Amazon for $299.99