“Drive” Your Baby To Sleep (Without Getting In the Car!)

by Natalie Hoage on June 23, 2011

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We all know that sometimes the only way to get a fussy baby to sleep is to strap them into their car seat and take them for a spin around the block. Or blocks. The problem with that is that then you have to get them out of the car, without waking them back up!

But Fisher Price may have come up with a solution! The Fisher-Price Cruisin’ Motion Soother is a baby chair that mimics the a ride in the car. Not only does it have the vibrations of a humming engine, but it also includes bumps and bends!

Fisher-Price spokeswoman Sarah Allen describes the new seat: “Parents wanted something that could do the same job as a car seat but without the car. The chair itself is actually the deepest kind of seat we have ever done and we did that to give the same feel as a  car seat. It has a motor in the base and when you turn it on the chair moves ever  so slightly. The movements vary throughout to match the same kind of sensation the baby gets from being in a car. Sometimes you go over bumps or go round a corner or turn left or right. Those are repeated in the chair, but ever so slightly, so that the baby feels like it is back in the car. The noise that accompanies the movements completes it. Some chairs swing the baby around but this is  more subtle.”

Are you kidding me? This sounds perfect! It’s not due out until July, but if I had a baby coming, I would pre-order one of these for sure! It’s going to cost right around $100.

Do you think the Cruisin’ Motion Soother would be worth paying $100 for?

  • Penny W.

    Listen, a sleep-deprived, half-crazed mom will do anything, include wasting gas driving around for an extra hour just to keep a baby (or coax a baby to) sleep! If that was still me, I’d be up for trying it!

    I remember driving for ages, and also walking the hallway at 3am because baby wouldn’t sleep cuddled with me in a lovely, expensive, soft glider chair with rocking ottoman, oh no, we had to be actally WALKING. I felt like the living dead.

  • Pinchus Rose

    Gosh! this is so perfect, and with a baby in the wings (stomach, rather) i am definitely waiting for an update. What I’d like to hear is if this is indeed working just as good. If anyone has information before me, please let me know, because, i for one, have experienced colic babies and the miracle of a car ride, so i would do anything to buy this.

  • http://www.livingthescream.com Carly

    This is such a great idea!! I love the concept. I don’t know if I would pay a hundred dollars for one but it’s nice to know that the option is there. I remember with not so fond memory the late night car rides with my 1st. So frustrating!

  • Sarah

    Can we get one of these for adults? Lol
    I am a “car baby”
    this would surely be worth a try on one of those insomnia nights.
    Where was this stuff when my boys were little.
    technology! gotta love it.

  • Ashley

    This looks like a cheaper version of the Mamaroo!! But I like how the seat is deeper, that was a problem for me with the Mamaroo and we returned it the next day because my LO never got comfy in it :o (

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