Obviously, we love Amazon Alexa—it’s made our lives easier and mornings more full of news, traffic updates, and weather conditions. It can do more than just that though. New parents will be glad to read: yes, there are ways that your toddler and Alexa can enjoy each others’ company. Not only are there Alexa enabled devices for toddlers, there are Alexa games for toddlers. As well, some of the best Alexa skills for toddlers are available.
Here, we’ll feature one of our favorite devices for toddler: Alexa-enabled Hatch Baby Rest Sound Machine.
Toddler and Alexa
There are many great Alexa-enabled devices to help you with your toddler. Alexa allows you to control the device from your smartphone.
Hatch Baby Rest Sound Machine, Night Light and Time-to-Rise
This is a #1 best-seller on Amazon. The Rest+ version of the The Hatch sound machine is an all-in-one night light, sound machine, “alarm clock” and audio monitor for baby. Hatch’s sound machine creates the ideal sleep environment for your child, as well as establishes healthy sleep routines. Parents use the Alexa-enabled Hatch app to gently put their baby to sleep—and get a little extra sleep themselves. Again, all controlled with your phone, so you never disturb your sleeping baby.
The night light has 10 pre-set colors to choose from that will soothe your baby as they sleep. You can also turn it to a custom color. Hatch claims that its colors are “scientifically proven… [and] promote healthy circadian rhythms and melatonin production with white noise to aid sleep.”
The noise machine currently has around 10 noise options, including white noise, rain, wind, and waves. With the noise machine function your baby will be asleep in no time.
The time-to-rise function acts as an “alarm clock” for your toddler by alerting them when it is OK to get out of bed in the morning—so mom and dad can get a little more rest.
The audio monitor function on hatch allows parents to feel confident that everything’s ok with the little one over the course of the evening.
We like this product so much mainly because Hatch consulted sleep-experts to create this device. The colors and sounds it employs are scientifically proven to promote your child’s natural circadian rhythm to ensure they (and mom and dad!) will get a full, healthy night’s rest every night.
With 4.4 out of 5 stars, there are something like 2,000+ glowing reviews of Hatch. For $59.99 as of August 2019, a lot of parents have found the price completely worth it.