by Joyce Slaton posted in Products & Prizes

Many -- maybe even most -- babies love listening to music or other soothing sounds. But it has to be the right soothing sounds. When they don't like the noise they're hearing, they'll look around fretfully, maybe even cry. When they like what they hear, they smile, kick their legs happily, sometimes even peacefully fall right to sleep, and stay that way.
My infant daughter wailed inconsolably every single time we put her in her crib unless we played Stevie Wonder's "Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing" on repeat. No other song would do. White noise, ocean sounds, trickling water with frog peeps, nope. Stevie Wonder, or she cried.
At the time, I dealt with it by hovering near the crib with a CD and a CD player, pressing "repeat" until she finally blessedly fell asleep. My life would have been much easier if I'd had one of these two cool new sound machines that let parents control exactly what sounds and songs their babies hear. 1. snu:mee

A teeny tiny little unit that's about the size of 3 stacked pancakes, the snu:mee distinguishes itself with its multi-usefulness, serving as baby monitor, sound machine, MP3 player, and WiFi speaker.
It comes preloaded with a bunch of lullabies, or with the free included app, you can put up to 4G of your own music on the device. Oh, if I'd only been able to build a playlist of nothing but "Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing!" Or, using the snu:mee, I could have sat on my b...